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Hope you got to our last performance:   Monday, June 21, 7:30 - 9:00

in CENTRAL PARK near W. 81st Street

under the Winterdale Arch, a few hundred feet in from Central Park West,

(across the street from the Hayden Planetarium)

participating in MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK 2010

 

 

Among the latest in early music, Music Divine emphasizes sacred music centered around the year MD (1500--plus or minus 500 years, from plainchant to Pärt), with a healthy dose of the secular.  The director and many of the members have sung in some of the best professional choirs and early music groups in the metropolitan area and elsewhere.  The director has also conducted performances by Polyhymnia, the New York Madrigal Singers, the Canby Singers, and many other ensembles. 

Music Divine is named after a 6-voice madrigal by Thomas Tomkins.


 

Rehearsals are held on the Upper West Side Sunday evenings (with occasional exceptions on Mondays)

      

      

Group size:  10-16 members

 

   Now in its fifth year, Music Divine has performed in acoustically beautiful churches on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and in Greenwich Village, Boston, and Teaneck, NJ. 
  
   In 2007 we took part in the Boston Early Music Festival and the New York Early Music Celebration.  The New York performance was featured on the nationwide radio program Millenium of Music.  For the Make Music New York 2008 Festival, Music Divine presented a sneak preview of its War & Peace concert inside a resonant Central Park underpass near the zoo.  For the 2009 festival we found an even better underpass and performed all of the music of our two previous concerts.   We returned there for MMNY 2010 to perform Josquin's Missa de Beata Virgine and a few pieces from our Stile Moderno concert.
   For our return to the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival, Music Divine presented a fringe concert of the featured work from our December 2009 program, Jacob Obrecht's Missa Salve diva parens, a monumental, late-15th-century mass that transcended the recently established "classical" norms of polyphonic composition.