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The GEMS Project
Fri., October 02, 2009 / 6:30 PM
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Note for Ticket holders: seating is not guaranteed after 7:25 pm, so please arrive early.
Ticket Prices:
$20 per seat, general admission
Ticket holders: Seating is not guaranteed after 7:25 pm, so please arrive early.
$35 per seat, preferred seating
$120 table for four, preferred seating
$150 table for six, preferred seating
Visit here or call 212-866-0468 to purchase an entire table.
Experience the fusion of art + revelry. Critically acclaimed Gotham Early Music Scene stages its third annual series of concerts spotlighting nine of the most exciting and innovative early music groups working in New York City today. This year the concerts move downtown to Le Poisson Rouge, the celebrated new arts cabaret in Greenwich Village that has quickly become known for attracting large audiences to new music discovery.
It is the perfect environment for our setlists of 16th- through 18th-century music, as listeners at live concerts and operas at that time ate, talked, drank, and frequently sang along with the music, with abandon. Audiences of that time would be amazed to find modern listeners seated in rows, facing forward, keeping perfectly still.
The GEMS Project strikes a perfect balance, inviting music lovers of all kinds to immerse themselves in a nightlife of true substance and vitality and an atmosphere that is at once modern and timeless. That puts you closer than ever to cutting edge groups on the scene like Ensemble Viscera, East of the River, The Four Nations Ensemble, New York Baroque Dance Company and many others.
Le Poisson Rouge evokes the salons of the past, providing a modern audience with the opportunity to revel in early music with new eyes and ears.
7:30 ENSEMBLE VISCERA
A group full of baroque guitars and voices, Ensemble Viscera features many of New York’s leading performers of Renaissance music. They will present a program of jácaras, songs which began life as ballads about the ruffians, bravos, pimps, whores, pickpockets and swindlers that made up the small-time criminal underworld of 17th century Madrid and Seville. The program explores some of the ways the jácara may have been sung and heard in the Spain of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, and Quevedo.
“Crime and Punishment: The Musical Underworld of the Jácara in 17th Century Spain.”
JAILHOUSE JÁCARA
Romance de los presos de la carcel (Ballad of the Prisoners in the Jail)
text: Anonymous, Quarto Quaderno de Varios Romances (Valencia c.1598)
music: 'El Amor'; setting by Grant Herreid after Santiago de Murcia (c.1730)
JAQUES AND THEIR WOMEN
Consideraçiones y Preçeptos de un Casado (Thoughtful Rules of a Married Man)
Luis de Briçeño (1626); reconstructed by Grant Herreid
PUNISHMENTS, MINOR AND MAJOR
Jácara Que Cantó en la Compañía de Bartolomé Romero Francisca Paula (Jacara sung by Francisca Paula in the Company of Bartolomé Romero)
text: Luis Quiñones de Benavente
music: improvised after 17th c. examples
Al Zurdillo de la Costa
text: D. Geronimo de Cancer
music: improvised after 17th c. examples
THE INCARCERATION AND SENTENCE OF ESCARRAMÁN (Letter from Escarramán to Ms. Mendez)
Carta de Escarramán a la Méndez
text: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
music: adapted from Juán Hidalgo by Grant Herreid and Paul Shipper
8:20 BROOKLYN BAROQUE
This venerable trio specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries, focusing primarily on repertoire from France and Germany. For this performance, they will explore both German and French styles with pieces by Bach's French and German contemporaries Boismortier and Telemann, as well as selected movements from Bach’s Sonata for Flute in E Minor.
“Bach and His Contemporaries”
“Methodical” Sonata in G Major for Flute and Continuo Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata in E Minor for Flute and Continuo, BWV 1034 (Movts. 1 & 2) J. S. Bach
Sonata in D Major for Flute, Cello, and Continuo, Op. 50, No. 6 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
9:10 THE NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY
In period costumes with masks, foils, lace handkerchief, fans, gloves, castanets and a bull fighter’s cape, Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante will wind their way around the audience and the stage as they conjure a midnight rendezvous and a period “tango.” The partnership between Turocy and Fittante runs deep after performing together since 1989 when the rap song, Bust a Move, hit the charts. They will “bust a move” in Baroque style with these exciting period dances, accompanied by three internationally celebrated instrumentalists.
“Bust a Move” Baroque
Les Caracteres de la Danse by Jean Fery Rebel, choreography by Catherine Turocy
Les Folies d’Espagne by Marin Marais, choreography based on period Spanish dance notations and complemented with original period Spanish choreography by Carlos Fittante.
Ticket Prices:
$20 per seat, general admission
Ticket holders: Seating is not guaranteed after 7:25 pm, so please arrive early.
$35 per seat, preferred seating
$120 table for four, preferred seating
$150 table for six, preferred seating
Visit here or call 212-866-0468 to purchase an entire table.
Experience the fusion of art + revelry. Critically acclaimed Gotham Early Music Scene stages its third annual series of concerts spotlighting nine of the most exciting and innovative early music groups working in New York City today. This year the concerts move downtown to Le Poisson Rouge, the celebrated new arts cabaret in Greenwich Village that has quickly become known for attracting large audiences to new music discovery.
It is the perfect environment for our setlists of 16th- through 18th-century music, as listeners at live concerts and operas at that time ate, talked, drank, and frequently sang along with the music, with abandon. Audiences of that time would be amazed to find modern listeners seated in rows, facing forward, keeping perfectly still.
The GEMS Project strikes a perfect balance, inviting music lovers of all kinds to immerse themselves in a nightlife of true substance and vitality and an atmosphere that is at once modern and timeless. That puts you closer than ever to cutting edge groups on the scene like Ensemble Viscera, East of the River, The Four Nations Ensemble, New York Baroque Dance Company and many others.
Le Poisson Rouge evokes the salons of the past, providing a modern audience with the opportunity to revel in early music with new eyes and ears.
7:30 ENSEMBLE VISCERA
A group full of baroque guitars and voices, Ensemble Viscera features many of New York’s leading performers of Renaissance music. They will present a program of jácaras, songs which began life as ballads about the ruffians, bravos, pimps, whores, pickpockets and swindlers that made up the small-time criminal underworld of 17th century Madrid and Seville. The program explores some of the ways the jácara may have been sung and heard in the Spain of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, and Quevedo.
“Crime and Punishment: The Musical Underworld of the Jácara in 17th Century Spain.”
JAILHOUSE JÁCARA
Romance de los presos de la carcel (Ballad of the Prisoners in the Jail)
text: Anonymous, Quarto Quaderno de Varios Romances (Valencia c.1598)
music: 'El Amor'; setting by Grant Herreid after Santiago de Murcia (c.1730)
JAQUES AND THEIR WOMEN
Consideraçiones y Preçeptos de un Casado (Thoughtful Rules of a Married Man)
Luis de Briçeño (1626); reconstructed by Grant Herreid
PUNISHMENTS, MINOR AND MAJOR
Jácara Que Cantó en la Compañía de Bartolomé Romero Francisca Paula (Jacara sung by Francisca Paula in the Company of Bartolomé Romero)
text: Luis Quiñones de Benavente
music: improvised after 17th c. examples
Al Zurdillo de la Costa
text: D. Geronimo de Cancer
music: improvised after 17th c. examples
THE INCARCERATION AND SENTENCE OF ESCARRAMÁN (Letter from Escarramán to Ms. Mendez)
Carta de Escarramán a la Méndez
text: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
music: adapted from Juán Hidalgo by Grant Herreid and Paul Shipper
8:20 BROOKLYN BAROQUE
This venerable trio specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries, focusing primarily on repertoire from France and Germany. For this performance, they will explore both German and French styles with pieces by Bach's French and German contemporaries Boismortier and Telemann, as well as selected movements from Bach’s Sonata for Flute in E Minor.
“Bach and His Contemporaries”
“Methodical” Sonata in G Major for Flute and Continuo Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata in E Minor for Flute and Continuo, BWV 1034 (Movts. 1 & 2) J. S. Bach
Sonata in D Major for Flute, Cello, and Continuo, Op. 50, No. 6 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
9:10 THE NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY
In period costumes with masks, foils, lace handkerchief, fans, gloves, castanets and a bull fighter’s cape, Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante will wind their way around the audience and the stage as they conjure a midnight rendezvous and a period “tango.” The partnership between Turocy and Fittante runs deep after performing together since 1989 when the rap song, Bust a Move, hit the charts. They will “bust a move” in Baroque style with these exciting period dances, accompanied by three internationally celebrated instrumentalists.
“Bust a Move” Baroque
Les Caracteres de la Danse by Jean Fery Rebel, choreography by Catherine Turocy
Les Folies d’Espagne by Marin Marais, choreography based on period Spanish dance notations and complemented with original period Spanish choreography by Carlos Fittante.
Artists
Ensemble Viscera
The jácara began its life as a ballad about the ruffians, bravos, pimps, whores, pickpockets and swindlers that made up the small-time criminal underworld of 17th century Madrid and Seville. Sung by actresses at the public theaters, no doubt they were also heard in taverns, plazas and fairs, wherever a good storyteller might hold forth. Cervantes, in El Rufián Dichoso, gives a humorous account of a bravo who shows to a fellow ruffian a jácara he has just composed. The same play contains a scene in which a jácara is accompanied by two guitarists. Jácaras were also written (or re-written) a lo divino, on religious subjects, sometimes set chorally to polyphonic music. But in the case of the simple underworld ballad, accompanied by guitars, harps, and maybe other instruments, it is unclear to what music and in what manner it was sung, since only a few secular jácaras survive with a musical setting. This program explores some of the ways the jácara may have been sung and heard in the Spain of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, and Quevedo.
Brooklyn Baroque
Brooklyn Baroque specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries, but our concerts often range further back into the seventeenth century or as far forward as Beethoven. Although we regularly present works by Italian composers, the bulk of our repertoire comes from France and Germany. For this showcase, we will explore both our German and French sides with pieces by Bach's French and German contemporaries Boismortier and Telemann, as well as selected movements from Bach’s Sonata for Flute in E Minor.
Performers:
Andrew Bolotowsky, Baroque flute
David Bakamjian, Baroque cello
Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord
Artist Website
Performers:
Andrew Bolotowsky, Baroque flute
David Bakamjian, Baroque cello
Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord
Artist Website
The New York Baroque Dance Company
In period costumes with masks, foils, lace handkerchief, fans, gloves, castanets and a bull fighter’s cape, Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante will wind their way around the audience and the stage as they conjure a midnight rendezvous and a period “tango” in the comic and daring Les Caracteres de la Danse (Jean Fery Rebel) and Les Folies d’Espagne (Marin Marais). The partnership between Turocy and Fittante runs deep after performing together since 1989 when the rap song, Bust a Move, hit the charts. They will “bust a move” in Baroque style with these exciting period dances.
Watch: New York Baroque Dance Company footage
Watch: New York Baroque Dance Company footage