Crescendo Chorus
Crescendo Vocal Ensemble
Crescendo Period Instrument Orchestra
...A revelation! ...a great evening of music. ...Crescendo singers acquitted themselves with appropriate gusto, for which an enthusiastic audience
rewarded them with thunderous applause... ~Simon Wainrib, Berkshire Record
Your experience with the piece ["To Hope" Jazz Mass] was exactly what I wanted to happen. Thank you so much for demonstrating how
the composition realized those goals in your guiding hands! ~Dave Brubeck
Totentanz
2007
Performance
Video traveled to
Florence, Italy in
March 2008!
at the Max Planck
Institute for Cultural
History
Crescendo, Inc. PO Box 245, Lakeville, CT 06039 860-435-4866
Crescendo's Full Ensembles join forces to perform captivating antiphonal repertoire from the celebrated tradition of St. Marco in Venice: the spectacular Cori Spezzati.
Rarely performed Flemish Renaissance composer Adrian Willært's vocal and instrumental works — the first known published examples — began the tradition. In the astonishing century that followed, as the Early Baroque flowered, antiphonal church music flourished. This culminated in the beloved Psalms of David of Dresden Hofkappellmeister Heinrich Schütz.
A historic sonic event & an unusual spatial experience!
Cornetto player Kiri Tollaksen from Indiana University's Early Music Institute joins our Period Instrument Orchestra. She will lead colleagues playing Early Baroque winds, with concertmaster Lisa Rautenberg and our Viola da Gamba Consort.
We always welcome engaged and experienced singers to join!
AUDITIONS for this choral project by appointment: contact by email
Dowload registration form here.
Weekly rehearsals and several extra dates before the concerts. Choir fee per project.
Workshops!
Sight Singing
Voice
Recorder
Strings
Flute
Chamber Music
May-July
2008
This page was last updated: April 29, 2008
Recent Events 2007-2008:
Upcoming Concert:
UNKOWN TREASURES OF
VOCAL POLYPHONY
November 8 & 9, 2008
Heinrich Ignaz Biber Carlo Gesualdo
Requiem in A Major a 15 Tenebrae Lessons
Performances at
First Congregational Church, 251 Main St.
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Sat., Nov. 8, 2008 at 7.30 pm
and
Sun., Nov. 9, 2008 at 4 pm
