GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE (GEMS) Is an exciting new early music organization that is "dedicated to the promotion and advancement of early music in New York City. It serves professional and amateur performers and ensembles, church organizations, audiences and enthusiasts." Gene Murrow is its Executive Director. See below for some early offerings.

Miller Theater
Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th Street)

Ticket Price: $35
To order tickets by phone: Call the Box Office at 212-854-7799.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:00 PM

Treasures from the Sarum Rite

Vox Vocal Ensemble
George Steel, conductor

Robert Wylkinson Salve Regina (à 9)
John Sheppard Libera nos, Salva Nos. I & II
Jesu Salvator saeculi, redemptis
In manus tuas III
Spiritus Sanctus procedens I
Thomas Tallis Euge coeli porta
Candidi facti sunt
Loquebantur variis linguis
John Taverner Leroy Kyrie
Christopher Tye In Pace

"The pre-Reformation liturgy in England was the most elaborate, ornate, and theatrical of Western Christendom. The polyphonic embellishments to this gorgeous ceremonial—too seldom performed because they are so carefully woven into the tapestry of the liturgy—are some of the most exquisite beauties of any age. Vox Vocal Ensemble brings to light overlooked treasures written for the Divine Office and the Lady Mass, including Wylkinson’s monumental (even Straussian) nine-part Salve Regina and peerless masterpieces by John Sheppard"

Early Music New York

Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street

Frederick Renz, Director

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Sunday, December 16, at 3 PM
Sunday, December 23, at 3 PM & 8 PM
Tuesday, Christmas Day, at 3 PM & 8 PM

A DUTCH CHRISTMAS

Kerstmis in Holland – 1550-1650

EM/NY’s soon to be released CD album, produced in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in tandem with the exhibition “The Age of Rembrandt,” will be debuted in live performance – seasonal music Dutch settlers of Nieuw-Amsterdam would have known. Cantiones natalitiae (Latin songs) and kerstliedjes (carols) for voices, variations for recorders by Jacob van Eyck and Sweelinck, jaunty dances by Susato and Phalese, as well as rowdy drinken liedeken ring in the New Year.

Join the artists in EM/NY’s traditional post-concert New Year toast in the festooned Cathedral – gelukkig Nieuw Jaar!

Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 3 PM
New York City
Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall Street
REBEL Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir; Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Handel’s MESSIAH (with live broadcast over WQXR 96.3 FM)
info: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

Monday, December 17, 2007 at 1 PM
New York City
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway & Fulton St.
REBEL Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir, Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Handel’s MESSIAH (Christmas portion only)
info:http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 7:30 PM
New York City
Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall Street
REBEL Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir, Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Handel: MESSIAH
info: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

Monday, December 24, 2007 at 10 PM
New York City
Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall Street
REBEL and Trinity Choir, Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Charpentier: MESSE DE MINUIT (Midnight Mass)
info: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1 PM
New York City
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway & Fulton St.
REBEL Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir, Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Monteverdi : VESPERS OF 1610
info: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 7:30 PM
New York City
Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall Street
REBEL & Trinity Choir, Dr. Owen Burdick, conductor
Monteverdi : VESPERS OF 1610
info: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org; 212-602-0873

16 December

J. S. Bach – Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Isaac – Rorate coeli desuper
C. C.Susa – Adam lay in bondage
Max Reger – Our Lady’s vision
Paul Manz – E’en so, Lord Jesus
Schubert, arr. by Richard Proulx – mass settings from Deutsche Messe
Recitative and Aria Handel (from Messiah)
"Thus says the Lord of Hosts
But who may abide the day of his coming?"
Handel – "And the glory of the Lord" (from Messiah)
William Byrd – Laetentur coeli
J.S. Bach – Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BWV 661

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23 December -
Buxtehude – Magnificat Primi Toni, BuxWV 203
Schubert, arr. by Richard Proulx – mass settings from Deutsche Messe
Morten Lauridsen – Ave Maria
Frank Ferko – Motet for the Annunciation
J. .S. Bach – Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733

Music Before 1800
32nd Season: 2006-2007
Sunday Afternoon Concerts
4 pm at Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street
New York, NY 10027

E-mail: concerts@mb1800.org
Telephone: 212-666-9266
Fax: 212-666-9266

"Music Before 1800 is the longest-running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music at Corpus Christi Church for twenty-eight years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical."

Sunday, January 20, 4 pm

Sequentia

Bejamin Bagby, director

Fragments for the End of Time

Singer and harpist Benjamin Bagby returns to the Music Before 1800 series with Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes and harp. Aided by supertitles, they will perform eighth- through eleventh-century music filled with apocalyptic imagery, both destructive and revelatory. Many traditions meet in this program, which was drawn from pre-Christian, Christian, and pagan Germanic sources.

Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8PM

PARTHENIA, Beverly Au, Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley, Lisa Terry with SPIRITUS COLLECTIVE, Kris Kwapis Ingles, cornetto; Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz, & Mack Ramsey, sackbut; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Vita Wallace, violin.

Majestic Dialogues - The Brightness of Brass

The exuberant brass & strings of Spiritus Collective join PARTHENIA for festive music of Gabrieli in all of its surround-sound glory! Other works, large and small, by Frescobaldi, Priuli, Cima, and Merulo.

Parthenia is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Parthenia's concert season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Boston Early Music and The Morgan Library
225 Madison Ave at 36th St., NYC

concerts held at the Morgan's Gilder Lehrman Hall

Single ticket: $45 for Non-Members; $35 for Members
Advanced reservations recommended: 212-685-0008, ext. 560

Order tickets online

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:30 PM

Jérôme Hantaï & Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba, and Freddy Eichelberger, continuo organ

Music of Jenkins, Coprario, , Frescobaldi, Kühnel, Buxtehude, and Marais

Preconcert talk at 7 p.m.