Music from the First Folio--October 26 and 27, 2023 (at two different locations)
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Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book was
published in London that changed the course of history. Shakespeare’s First Folio, published seven
years after his death, contains many plays that would have been lost if this
book never appeared.
In this, the quadricentennial anniversary of what
has been called the world’s “most influential book,” Collectio Musicorum will
perform music from the First Folio, from plays that were first published there
and which would have been lost forever if this book had never appeared.
Songs and dances from As You Like It, Macbeth,
The Tempest, and other plays are on the program. The performers include Chad Kranak, Alex
Longnecker, Christopher Preston Thompson, singers; Christopher Morrongiello,
lute; Patricia Neely, viola da gamba; Jeff Dailey, recorder.
The concert will feature some music from manuscripts in the Drexel Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which is right across the street. Joseph Drexel donated his rare collection of 17th century English Music to the precursor of the NYPL in the 19th century. New York City is indeed a rich resource for the study of Shakespeare. There are more copies of the First Folio here (6 in the NYPL, 2 in the Morgan Library) than in London (which only has 5).
The concert will take place on Friday, October 27th at 8 PM at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023. It is easily accessible to the #1 subway. Admission is free.
Highlights from the concert will be performed on
Thursday, October 26th at St. Malachy’s Chapel, 239 West 49th
Street in Manhattan at 1:15. This concert is also free.
Edipo Tiranno--Free Performance on May 20, 2022
Musicians from Collectio Musicorum will perform music by Robert Johnson, the "heretic priest," and a few other early Scottish composers at the Gotham Early Music Scene's Midtown Concert Series on Thursday, October 10th, at 1:15 PM. Now in its 22nd year, the Midtown Concert Series concerts takes place just about every Thursday afternoon in the chapel at St. Bartholomew's Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue.
Here's the program:
Collectio Musicorum (“Collection
of Music”) presents a concert of music from Scotland, dating from the twelfth
through the eighteenth centuries. It
takes place at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023,
on Friday, October 18th at 8 PM.
Admission is Free.
The Many Sounds of Rigoletto; the Music behind the Music May 17, 2019
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Join the musicians of Collectio Musicorum on Friday, October 12th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church for a most unusual concert of music by composers who have one thing in common--their names start with the letter P.
Perotin, Piero, Pelissier, and Pergolesi are just some of the composers represented. As with most Collectio concerts, the bulk of the music has never been heard in the US before. Included on program is a short opera by Purcell based on a biblical excerpt.
The church is located at 122 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023 and the concert is free.
The musicians of Collectio Musicorum will present a concert on Friday, May 18th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church on West 69th Street. Also entitled "Dufay and Friends," it will contain some of the same music performed on the recent Staten Island concert, but will also include additional works, such as pieces by Pierre Fontaine, Robert Morton, and the sole surviving work by the elusive Magister Gulielmus. Admission is free.