Christopher Tye was probably born in Cambridgeshire, where the family name was common, around 1505, making him about the same age as is more famous contemporary, Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585). He is often mentioned as [...]
Polyhymnia’s choice for Lent and Holy Week for our Music in Isolation series, recently posted, is Inter vestibulum et altare by Christóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1553). When I discovered this, my thoughts wandered to my [...]
Qui tantus primo Parsone in flore fuisti, Quantus in autumno in morere fores. Parsons, you who were so great in the springtime of life, How great you would have been in the autumn, had not [...]
I was delighted when John Bradley selected Ego Flos Campi by Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c. 1510- c. 1555) as the second motet for Polyhymnia’s series of virtual choir recordings. This was in part because [...]
For the 25 years that Polyhymnia has been performing, we have primarily centered our attention around music composed between 1450-1650. No matter how you may try to fit music into convenient little historical file cabinets, [...]
When I tell non-musicians that I sing in a choir that specializes in Renaissance sacred music - by which I really mean, sacred music of the Christian tradition - I am sometimes met with puzzled [...]
I never got to meet my maternal great grandmother “Ma-Ma-Ma” (Rahela Jelinek, née Poljokan) but she lives on as a fascinating and colorful figure in my imagination. A Sephardic Jew from former Yugoslavia, she studied [...]
When we were asked to pick a motet we loved to write about, I was stumped. To be honest, almost everything we sing in choir becomes something of a favorite. It usually doesn’t start that [...]
When John Bradley asked us to write blog posts about our favorite motets, I was sure I would choose one from the Spanish renaissance. In November 2015, my first Polyhymnia concert was a Morales program, [...]
Most recall spring of 2020 as the beginning of a bleak time in a global pandemic; I was reminded of the ten year anniversary of the start of my home in New York City. I [...]
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