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- Members:
- The precise make-up of the ensemble changes from concert to concert. A typical concert ensemble is 10 to 14 singers. Following is a list of singers who performed with Blue Heron during its Tenth Season (2008-09) in Cambridge, which just ended: Noel Bisson, Lydia Brotherton, Lydia Heather Knutson, Brenna Wells, Pamela Dellal, Daniela Tosic, Martin Near, Jennifer Ashe, Michael Barrett, Allen Combs, Jason McStoots, Steven Soph, Aaron Sheehan, Mark Sprinkle, David Simmons-Duffin, Cameron Beauchamp, Glenn Billingsley, Paul Guttry and Darrick Yee. Erik Schmalz joined the group on sackbut, slide trumpet and trombone for the March concerts. Music director Scott Metcalfe also performed on vielle in the March concerts.
- Genre:
- Early Music
- Hometown:
- Cambridge
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- Music by Guillaume Du Fay & th...
Currier Museum of Art
Sunday, March 15 at 2:00pm - Music by Guillaume Du Fay & th...
First Church in Cambridge, Congrega...
Friday, March 13 at 8:00pm - Perotin/ Josquin
Grace Church
Sunday, December 21 at 3:30pm - Perotin / Josquin: A French & ...
First Church in Cambridge, Congrega...
Saturday, December 20 at 8:00pm - Blue Heron on WGBH Live!
89.7 FM and online at www.wgbh.org
Friday, December 19 at 3:00pm - Music from the Peterhouse part...
Bowdoin Chapel
Saturday, October 25 at 3:00pm - Music from the Peterhouse part...
First Church in Cambridge, Congrega...
Friday, October 24 at 8:00pm
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) Thanks for a great end to the Tenth Season. Cambridge was great, and so was the Currier Museum in Manchester on Sunday.
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) is approaching the end of its tenth season, and planning Season 11
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Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) The visit to WGBH has been turned into a podcast. Find it here: www.wgbh.org/classical. Or poke around on iTunes.
January 13 at 6:52pm · Report
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Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
a rebroadcast of today's complete visit to the fraser studio is on right now, here: http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=2764
December 19, 2008 at 7:30pm · Report
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) OK don't forget Blue Heron is on GBH at 3 PM today. Jathy Fuller played 20 minutes from the Du Fay CD around 1 am to warm people up. Check it out. You can find it online if you live in distant climes. 89.7 FM Boston WGBH. Sounded really great at last night's rehearsal . . .
December 19, 2008 at 10:09am · Report
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) An awesome typo in an online concert listing, that HAS to be remembered somewhere: Blue Hero. The mascot of this alter-ego group is, of course, The Tick. :-) Sorry if you don't get that reference; but it had to be said.
December 14, 2008 at 7:40pm · Report
Hosted by Richard Knisely
Blue Heron previews music from its Christmas program of Perotin / Josquin and friends
Host:Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
Time:3:00PM Friday, December 19th
Location:89.7 FM and online at www.wgbh.org
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
Hi everyone,
WGBH has done a little piece on Robert Jones, the Peterhouse
partbooks, Nick Sandon, and us, which will be broadcast on Classical
Connections on WGBH 89.7, this Friday, October 10, at 8:34 am during
Morning Edition; and again at 5:44 pm during All Things Considered.
It will be posted as of Friday at www.wgbh.org/classicalconnections
for one week, and thereafter at the archive page (click on "more
classical connections" from that page).
Enjoy! Tell your friends! Hear Nick Sandon's voice! and a little bit
of the Jones Mass in the background.
Scott
October 8, 2008 at 1:24pm · Report
Tallis, Taverner, Aston and Jones
Blue Heron’s annual fall exploration of early 16th-century English music, featuring Robert Jones’s Magnificat, splendid votive antiphons (all given their first Blue Heron perf...
Host:Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
Time:3:00PM Saturday, October 25th
Location:Bowdoin Chapel
Mediterranean Connections: From Cyprus to Savoy
In 1434 a large manuscript of music composed for the French court on the island of Cyprus arrived in Savoy among the accoutrements of Anne of Lusignan, sent from Cyprus to mar...
Host:Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
Time:2:00PM Sunday, March 15th
Location:Currier Museum of Art
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
A few spots are still available for this Saturday.
Sing 16th-century English music under the direction of Scott Metcalfe.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
10:00 am-2:30 pm (box lunch provided)
First Parish of Watertown, Unitarian Universalist
35 Church Street, Watertown
$45 or $35 with a season pass (available on site)
Open to all, but please pre-register, at http://www.blueheronchoir.org/events/eve
October 1, 2008 at 6:08pm · Report
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
The link for the podcast is: http://blueheronchoir.podomatic.com/rss2
October 1, 2008 at 6:04pm · Report
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) Podcast #3 is up! 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 Early Music.
October 1, 2008 at 6:01pm · Report
Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
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Ivan Moody, Early Music | August 2008
The Du Fay discography continues to grow apace . . . One of the most impressive of these discs to have come my way lately is a collection by the American ensemble Blue Heron, under Scott Metcalfe, Guillaume Du Fay: Motets, Hymns and Chansons (BHCD 1001, rec 2006, 74'). A 14-member group, with three instrumentalists to help out, Blue Heron produces a wonderfully clear sound that is nevertheless not lacking in depth, and the highlights of the recording—in that they display these qualities to perfection—are the so-called ‘Sanctus Papale’ (the Sanctus ‘Ave verum corpus’, possibly written for the consecration of Santa Maria dei Fiore in Florence in 1436) and Rite majorem, in honour of St James. The chansons are also beautifully sung, by smaller groups, but again with a pleasingly full sound. An extremely impressive recorded debut.
October 1, 2008 at 5:58pm · Report
Franco-Flemish Christmas 1200 and 1500
Now, we love the Messiah and The Nutcracker, too—but once you’ve heard them, come celebrate a Heron Holiday! The first half of our concert offers Christmas motets by Josquin D...
Host:Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble)
Time:3:30PM Sunday, December 21st
Location:Grace Church
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Blue Heron (Vocal Ensemble) Blue Heron will be the opening concert of the 2009-10 Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) concert series, Friday, October 16 at St. Paul Church, Harvard Square. It happens to fall precisely 10 years from the very first concert -- a nice way to celebrate a milestone birthday.