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The album nods to the house music scene, which has its roots in largely queer clubs like Chicago’s Warehouse, and Renaissance also features the New Orleans bounce sound of regular Beyoncé ...
New York Pro Musica was a vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City, which specialized in Medieval and Renaissance music.It was co-founded in 1952, under the name Pro Musica Antiqua, by Noah Greenberg, a choral director, and Bernard Krainis, a recorder player who studied with Erich Katz.
It is evocative of Renaissance's music, with lyrics by Thatcher-Newsinger and keyboard contributions by John Tout. On 20 September 2008, John Tout made his first public appearance in the US in over 25 years, with Annie Haslam and the Jann Klose band, at the Sellersville Theatre 1894 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. In 2009, Tout suffered a heart ...
Voices of Music (VOM) is a non-profit American musical ensemble based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in the performance of early music, especially Renaissance music, and Baroque compositions, using historically informed musical performance practices and instrumentation.
The Sixteen (Harry Christophers): mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel; Solistes de Musique Ancienne: baroque orchestra and choir; Sounds Baroque (Julian Perkins): period instrument ensemble; Stile Antico: early music vocal ensemble; Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
The main characteristics of Renaissance music are: [1] Music based on modes. Rich texture, with four or more independent melodic parts being performed simultaneously. These interweaving melodic lines, a style called polyphony, is one of the defining features of Renaissance music. Blending, rather than contrasting, melodic lines in the musical ...
The Renaissance Street Singers is a New York City-based amateur choir that performs polyphonic sacred music a cappella in free concerts in public spaces of the city. It was founded in 1973 by John Hetland , who remains the conductor and also prepares the music.
The Music With A Message Band is a 25-member performance group, aged 6–21, that write songs about social issues and perform throughout New York City. [12] The band has performed at Good Morning America, [13] Carnegie Hall, [14] the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center, [15] the Apollo Theater, [16] the New School, [17] [18] and the City Parks Foundation. [19]