1. Early music aficionados will have to go a lot farther than the Peninsula to find comparable satisfaction. 2. Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music. 3. The note patternings are really very simple in rhythmic outline, very closely resembling those of early choral music. 4. Consider the journal Early music. 5. It is well known that many of the professional singers of early music in Britain were trained in cathedral choir and in Oxbridge chapels. 6. This was early music at its best -- we were led somewhere new, moved close to tears, and booted back, smartly, into laughter. 7. America badly needs the early music revival to spread beyond occasional festivals and university campuses into the regular world of performance. 8. At the time, there were many amateurs doing early music, and the ban on music played by amateurs followed through the students and right into the schools. 9. Atypically for champions of early music on period instruments, Davenport encouraged his musicians to include contemporary works on programs. 10. Baird remains a captivating exponent of early music and her cool soprano is heard at its most serene. |