Bryn
Mawr Renaissance choir debuts director’s first program
March 29 Concert
Features Little-Known Female Composer, Aeneid Settings
BRYN MAWR,
PA – The Bryn Mawr Renaissance
Choir is debuting the first program designed by its new music director, John
Andrew Bailey, in its spring concert on March 29, 2014 at 3:00 pm in the Thomas
Great Hall of Bryn Mawr College. Free
and open to the public, the performance features a number of rarely performed
selections, including a five-voice motet by little-known woman composer
Raeffela Aleotti, as well as diverse settings of text from Virgil’s Aeneid by
Jacob Arcadelt, Josquin Desprez and Adrian Willaert.
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The 28-voice chamber group specializes in singing sacred and
secular gems composed between 1300 and 1600 during the European Renaissance
era. Singing without instrumental
accompaniment, the a cappella group will also perform works by English
Renaissance greats William Byrd and Richard Farrant as well as the Italian
master Orlando Lassus.
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About John Bailey
The recently appointed music director of the Bryn Mawr
Renaissance Choir, Bailey is a long-time faculty member of the Amherst Early
Music Festival and is completing his PhD in musicology at the University of Pennsylvania. As a harpsichordist, he has appeared in recitals
with soprano Julianne Baird, and as a concerto soloist with baroque orchestra
Tempesta di Mare and the Philadelphia Bach Festival series. He also serves as organist at the
Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, teaches in the Intellectual Heritage program
at Temple University,
and accompanies the Chorale and Chamber Singers of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.
More Than Five Decades for the Bryn
Mawr Renaissance Choir
Based in the cathedral-like Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr
College, the Renaissance
Choir is beginning its 51st season of continuous music-making. Following its very first concert on Nov. 1,
1963, the vocal chamber group has been performing several concerts annually for
more than five decades. Comprised of
students and professors from nearby colleges as well as experienced singers
from surrounding communities, the Bryn Mawr Renaissance Choir is supported by
the Ted Handy Fund for the Support of Renaissance Music, and contributions can
be made through Dianne Johnson, director of gift planning in the development
office of Bryn Mawr College.
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