In the New York Times on September 12, 2019.

Here's the link, just scroll down to October:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/arts/music/classical-music-calendar.html?searchResultPosition=1

Here's what it says:

FALL PREVIEW

10 Months of Classical Concerts You Won’t Want to Miss

COLLECTIO MUSICORUM Led by the musicologist Jeff Dailey, this 
ensemble explores early music from Scotland on Oct. 18 at Christ and St. 
Stephen’s Church on the Upper West Side, focusing on the Renaissance 
composer Robert Johnson — rarely if ever performed in this country — but also
including works dating back to the 12th century. collectio-
musicorum.blogspot.com.


The Harrowing of Hell

In the spring of 2019, Collectio Musicorum joined up with the American Theatre of Actors to produce The Harrowing of Hell.  This is a short play, written in Middle English, that dramatizes the rescue of all the souls in Hell by Jesus right after the Crucifixion.  Although it survives in four medieval manuscripts and was published (in Middle English) in the 19th century, it was never performed in the United States.  A review of the production may be found here:  https://www.rgmagazine.com/the-harrowing-of-hell-a-theatre-review-by-michael-elias/. 


The production has been nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award, and further details about that may be found here:  https://nyitawards.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-harrowing-of-hell.html.  The award ceremony is September 16th.  Keep your fingers crossed!


Here's a video of the production: 


Collectio Musicorum is a member of Early Music America
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Collectio Musicorum is one of the producers of a theatrical interpretation of Sir Walter Scott's poem, "The Dance of Death."  It will be performed in the weeks prior to Halloween 2018.  Although the text is not medieval, it is based on the medieval concept of the dead returning to earth to recruit new members of their band.  Written shortly after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Scott wrote it after a visit to the battlefield.
Details:  https://danceofdeathshow.weebly.com/


Collectio at MLA

On January 5th, members of Collectio Musicorum dominated a session at the Modern Language Association conference in New York City.  The session was devoted to troubadour music, and featured Dr. Jeff Dailey and Christopher Thompson (who also sang and played the harp) giving papers and two additional members--Elizabeth Bates and Patrick Fennig--performing selections from the 12th and 13th centuries.  Dr. Dailey spoke about the surviving alba repertoire--music describing adulterous relationship and Mr. Thompson talked and demonstrated how to devise harp accompaniments for monophonic songs.

Primarily Pipelare

Mattheus Pipleare (c. 1450-1515) was a composer active in the Low Countries during the great flowering of Franco-Netherlandish music.  He lived and worked in Louvain, Antwerp and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, seems never to have left to study in either France or Italy.  A master of polyphony, his surviving music consists mainly of sacred works, and the Festival Chorus of Collectio Musicorum will present several of these works, including his magisterial Missa de Feria and Magnificat  at a free concert on Friday, October 20th at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 122 West 69th St, New York, NY 10023 at 8 PM.  Also on the program are keyboard intabulations of works by Pipelare, performed by the organist James Wetzel.  

This concert is a tribute to the memory of Dr. Ronald Cross (1929-2013), whose work as a musicologist brought the compositions of Pipelare to light and life.  Dr. Cross was also a composer, and several of his organ works will be heard at the concert, along with music by his colleague, Dr. Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), a composer inspired by Renaissance polyphony.  Other works by composers associated with Dr. Cross will also appear on the program.


This concert is part of the
NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION 2017
an Early Music Foundation Service Project

For a listing of the other Celebration Events, go to: www.NYEMC.org



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