Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) Podcast
by Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Directed by Scott Metcalfe, Blue Heron (www.blueheron.org) is engaged in exploration of the vocal music of the Renaissance and Medieval periods. In addition to presenting a home concert series in Cambridge, and accepting touring engagements, it produces recordings, which it releases on its own label. The ensemble was founded in 1999.
Episodes
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Sean Gallagher on Ockeghem's "Fors Seullement l'actente" and its progeny
Professor Sean Gallagher, adviser to Blue Heron’s Ockeghem@600 project, introduces the seventh program in the series, featuring Johannes Ockeghem’s song "Fors seullement l’actente" and a number of pieces based on it, including three Mass movements by Ockeghem himself and works by Pierre de la Rue...
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Performing Late Medieval Music in The Modern Day
Episode 6 features a pre-concert talk by Scott Metcalfe given on February 3, 2018, in Cambridge. He discusses ideas about beauty and form presented in Robert Hass's A Little Book on Form (2017) and connects them to Blue Heron's work, pondering the issues raised by a 21st-century concert…
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Premieres of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks by Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557) and John Mason (c.1480-1548) and Variety and Expression in the Performance of 16th-century Music -- Pre-Concert Lecture by Scott Metcalfe
Episode 5 features a pre-concert lecture by Blue Heron's Music Director, Scott Metcalfe. In his lecture, given on October 13, 2012, before a concert in Cambridge, Metcalfe took on a number of interesting topics. He discussed the works that were about to be given their North American Premieres...
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Divine Songs (featuring music of Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497)) -- Pre-Concert Lecture by Sean Gallagher
Episode 4 features a pre-concert lecture by Sean Gallagher, Visiting Associate Professor of Music (Musicology and Ethnomusicology) at Boston University. In his lecture, given on March 2, 2013, Prof. Gallagher discusses the brilliant 15th-century composer of vocal polyphony Johannes Ockeghem and…
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Music from the Age of El Greco and Velázquez: Pre-Concert Lecture
Episode 3 features a pre-concert lecture by Dr. Douglas Kirk. All the music is from the live performance following the lecture, featuring Blue Heron, the Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, and the Blue Heron Violin Band. Recorded in April 2008. This episode sponsored by the Cambridge Society for...
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Music of John Taverner and William Byrd: Pre-Concert Lecture
Episode 2 features a pre-concert lecture by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Professor Teresa Neff. All the music is from the live performance following the lecture. Recorded in September 2007. This episode sponsored by the Cambridge Society for Early Music.
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The World of John Dunstable: Pre-Concert Lecture
This podcast episode features a pre-concert lecture by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Visiting Assistant Professor Myke Cuthbert. The music in this episode is from the live performance that followed the lecture. Recorded in November 2006.
About this show
Directed by Scott Metcalfe, Blue Heron (www.blueheron.org) is engaged in exploration of the vocal music of the Renaissance and Medieval periods. In addition to presenting a home concert series in Cambridge, and accepting touring engagements, it produces recordings, which it releases on its own label. The ensemble was founded in 1999.
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