EARLY MUSIC EXPOSED
Coordinated and hosted by Frederick Renz, Founder of the Early Music Foundation and Director of Early Music New York
Just as a conservator strips away layers of yellowed
varnish to reveal a painting’s original vigor, performers
of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and classical music
apply historical conventions and practices—such as
reading from original manuscripts and using period
instruments—to allow musical repertory to ring true,
revealing each score as conceived by its composer.
This daylong exploration of early music features lecture-demonstrations
by some of New York’s most notable
exponents of historically informed performance and
showcases instruments from the Museum’s collection.
Hear a sample of Early Music New York
Gasparo Zanetti – Alemana, “La Mantovana”
Morning Session: 10:00–12:00
The Jigge Is Up: Dance in Shakespeare’s Time
Featuring the New York Historical Dance Company,
Dorothy Olsson and Kaspar Mainz, Co-Directors,
with Flying Forms, an instrumental ensemble
The Art of Persuasion: A Musician’s Rhetoric
Featuring Parthenia, consort of viols, with
Gary Thor Wedow, lecturer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, soprano,
and Paul Hecht, actor
Afternoon Session: 2:00–4:00
From Chant to Organum: Improvised
Polyphony of the Middle Ages
Featuring Lionheart, male vocal sextet
From Manuscript to Concert Hall: Revival of
Fifteenth-Century Chansons
Featuring Asteria, voices and lute
Evening Session: 6:00–8:00
Playing by Numbers: Baroque Continuo
Realized
Featuring ARTEK, instrumental
and vocal ensemble, Gwendolyn Toth, Director
The Flute’s Glory Days: Traversing the
Eighteenth-Century Traverso
Featuring members
of the Grand Tour Orchestra, Charles Brink, Director
Entire day: $45
Single sessions: $20
Unreserved Seating
This event celebrates the reopening of The André Mertens Galleries
for Musical Instruments and features instruments from the
Museum’s collection.
This series is made possible in part through a grant to the Early
Music Foundation from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
