The Newberry Consort Artists

Newberry Consort wraps season with a delightful French Banquet

Chicago Classical Review – Lawrence A. Johnson – April 6, 2019 In a world where even high culture is increasingly coarsened by banality, vulgarity, and political acrimony, there is, fortunately, always the Newberry Consort. Chicago’s most venerable early music ensemble is closing its season this weekend with “Le Jardin de Melodies”—a program of secular French music of the 16th-century. Friday night’s delightful concert at the Newberry Library displayed the graceful mix of vibrant music-making and lightly-worn scholarship that has made… Read more “Newberry Consort wraps season with a delightful French Banquet”

In luminous concert, Newberry Consort recalls music of Spanish Jews in Renaissance tumult

In 1492, while Columbus was unveiling a new world far to the west across an uncharted ocean, the Jews were being thrown out of Spain. Those who would not convert to Catholicism were ordered, on pain of death, to leave a land that had been their home for a millennium and a half. This suddenly banished people, compelled to find new lives around the Mediterranean basin and across Europe, took with them, besides their faith and their learning, a long… Read more “In luminous concert, Newberry Consort recalls music of Spanish Jews in Renaissance tumult”

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