Dear
New York early music artists, ensembles and presenters,
~ ADVANCE NOTICE ~
Early
Music Foundation
(EMF) is pleased to announce the seventh NEW
YORK EARLY MUSIC
CELEBRATION [NYEMC], to coincide with EMF's 45th anniversary. An
EMF Service-to-the-Field project, this festival is designed to showcase
New
York’s historically informed performance artists, ensembles and
presenters. In
the
Celebration’s 2004 inaugural year,
EMF organized a city-wide early music celebration that spawned
sixty-plus
events. In 2007, the number of
participants grew to more than ninety. In 2010,
EMF together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Concerts &
Lectures and
Musical Instruments Departments combined resources to co-produce a
day-long Early
Music Festival. In 2013,
the
festival concept was enhanced by introducing a national theme, Pro
Musica
Polonica, with select foreign guests. The 2015
festival’s national theme was titled El Nuevo Mundo,
showcasing music and ensembles from Latin America and Iberia; and the 2017 festival was titled The
Low
Countries, featuring music and guest artists from Flanders
and Holland.
The
theme of this seventh festival project will be:
EX
BOREALIS – The Nordic and Baltic Regions
(Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia)
The
2019 festival will run from:
Saturday, October 5 through
Saturday, October 26, 2019
NYEMC
has again arranged for select foreign guest artists and
ensembles to join the festivities, including recorder player BOLETTE ROED and the COPENHAGEN CAMERATA ensemble
from Denmark, Norwegian cornettist
ALEXANDRA OPSAHL, and the vocal ensemble HEINAVANKER from
Estonia.
The
7th
NYEMC is a
service project of the EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION. The primary partner for
this year's Celebration is the American-Scandinavian Foundation. This
project is made
possible in
part with support from the National Endowment for the
Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Celebration consulate and
foundation partners.
Nordic and
Baltic early
music is
not performed as frequently in New York than that from other parts of
Europe, and yet there is a rich and vibrant tradition for early music
making in this region. Many
composers either originated or worked there during a significant part
of their
careers, including Düben,
Roman,
Agrell and Kraus (Sweden); Berlin (Norway); and Pedersøn
and Buxtehude (Denmark).
The
Düben Collection (Uppsala Library) contains vocal and instrumental
works by
more than 300 composers from Germany, Italy, France, Poland, England,
the
Baltic countries and Sweden, besides a large number of anonymous works.
It is
most likely that the collection represents what remains of the music
library
from the Swedish Royal Court during the reign of Queen Christina
(1644-54),
Charles X Gustav (1654-60), Charles XI (1660/1672-97), and Charles XII
(1698-1718).
- Frederick Renz
New
York
Early
Music
Central
A Project
of the Early Music Foundation • Frederick Renz,
Founding Director
212-749-6600
• www.NYEMC.com
*
“early music,” in the context of this Celebration, is defined as
repertoire from the first written music through the year 1800,
interpreted with
adherence to historically informed performance practices.
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