About Ensemble Organum
We are very excited about our upcoming concert featuring Marcel Pérès, so we wanted to share a little about his own ensemble — Ensemble Organum! The Organum Ensemble was founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès at Sénanque Abbay (France) and has been supported since 1984 by the Fondation Royaumont. The Ensemble develops programmes which combine…
Coming Soon – Santiago De Compostela
We’re only a month away from the start of the 2012-2013 Season as Marcel Pérès makes his Northwest and Cappella Romana debut directing an all-male chant ensemble in a program of medieval latin hymnody for St. James, sung directly from facsimilies of the Codex Calixtinus. This is the medieval manuscript that was only recently recovered…
A “Look” at the Coming Concerts
The scores arrived in the mail today from France for the Vespers of St James program. These photos include the first few bars of the first known composition for three voices, the conductus ‘Congaudeant catholici’ (Let all Catholics rejoice together): All the cool cats (from Greece) are coming to A Taste of Byzantium (this framed…
Meet Marcel Pérès
2012-2013 Season opener features guest conductor Marcel Pérès conducting “Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James” in his Cappella Romana debut. Meet this celebrated conductor: “Marcel Pérès, perhaps the greatest iconoclast among the early music performers of his generation, challenges his audience to rethink how we hear musical repertories from the tenth to…
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