For the New York City version of the concert, Garald worked with tenor Christopher Preston-Thompson and soprano Tiffany Bizup once again, joined by lovely mezzo Julia Mintzer. This set of talents brought new musical opportunities to the repertoire. Remember in our Boston Early Music Festival post, we told you that Christopher had taken an interest [...]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Christopher Preston Thompson, Early Music, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Good Pennyworths Holiday concert, Julia Mintzer, Renaissance Music, Tiffany Bizup, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

When one door closes, another opens! This past fall, instead of touring our Shakespeare concert to DC, Virginia and Maryland in November, as we’d planned, Garald found himself rehearsing two different versions of our annual celebration of carols and wassail songs, A Pennyworth of Christmas, with two different sets of singers — one for a [...]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Early Music, Erika Buchholz, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths Holiday concert, Kirsten Kane, Lute Songs, Medieval carols, Renaissance Music, The Good Pennyworths, Tim Joyce, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

Announcing our third annual holiday concert! For those who have attended in the past, fully three quarters of the repertoire will be new selections! We are focusing this year mainly on material from 1400-1700s: unearthly Medieval chant, lesser-known Renaissance carols, unusual wassail songs, plus a few favorite 18th-19th century carols — singing from transcriptions of [...]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Christmas concert, Early Music, Medieval music, New York City, Renaissance Music