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EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION (EMF) announces the sixth NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION [NYEMC], a 10-day city-wide festival featuring New York’s historical performance artists. Subtitled “The Low Countries – Flanders and Holland,” the 2017 edition of NYEMC will highlight music of Flemish and Dutch origin. The Celebration will run from Friday, October 13 through Sunday, October 22.

NYEMC has arranged for select foreign guest artists and ensembles to join the festivities, including flutist BARTHOLD KUIJKEN and carillonneur GEERT D’HOLLANDER from Belgium; and the vocal ensemble CAPPELLA PRATENSIS and chamber ensemble CAMERATA TRAJECTINA from the Netherlands.

New York-based ensembles and instrumentalists will include EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK, THE SEBASTIANS, HOUSE OF TIME and BROOKLYN BAROQUE; organists DANIEL HYDE (Director of Music at St. Thomas Church), PATRICK ALLEN and GWENDOLYN TOTH; and carillonneur JULIE ZHU. Vocal ensembles will include POMERIUM, RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK, and the RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS. In addition, AMHERST EARLY MUSIC will host its annual ”CityRecorder!” weekend workshop during the festival, as well as other educational components.

The 6th NYEMC is a service project of the EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION. This project is made possible in part with support from Flanders House New York, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York and the Netherland-America Foundation.
Presenting partners for “The Low Countries – Flanders and Holland” include Music Before 1800, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Church in New York, Riverside Church, Saint Thomas Church, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Schedule of Events (26 events to date)

For comprehensive information about each event, please CLICK HERE

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PUBLIC CONCERTS

FRIDAY – October 13
7:30 PM: THE SEBASTIANS – “Via Amsterdam”
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street

SATURDAY – October 14
4:00 PM: PATRICK ALLEN – “Weekend Organ Meditation”
Grace Church, 802 Broadway (at 10th Street)
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7:00 PM: RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK – “Music About Music and Musicians”
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (at West 120th Street)

7:00 PM: TEMBEMBE ENSAMBLE CONTINUO – “Baroque Son”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)

7:30 PM: HOUSE OF TIME – “The Nations”
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street (at Central Park West)

SUNDAY – October 15
2:00 PM: RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS
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2:00 PM: GEERT D’HOLLANDER, Belgian Carillonneur
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (at West 120th Street)

3:00 PM: HOUSE OF TIME – “The Nations”
The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Avenue (at West 183rd Street)

4:00 PM: CAPPELLA PRATENSIS – “The Polyphonic World of Jheronimus Bosch”
Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue)

TUESDAY – October 17
7:30 PM: BARTHOLD KUIJKEN, IMMANUEL DAVIS – “The Royal Flute Music of Louis XIV”
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street

WEDNESDAY – October 18
7:30 PM: CAMERATA TRAJECTINA – “Music from the Age of Vermeer”
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue (between East 35th and East 36th Streets)

8:00 PM: RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK – “Music About Music and Musicians”
Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181st Street (at Fort Washington Avenue)

FRIDAY – October 20
6:00 PM: GWENDOLYN TOTH, Organist – “Sweelinck and His Contemporaries”
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street (at Central Park West)

8:00 PM: COLLECTIO MUSICORUM – “Primarily Pipelare”
Christ and Saint Stephen’s Church, 122 West 69th Street (btw Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues)

SATURDAY – October 21
1:15 PM: JULIE ZHU, Carillonneur
St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd Street (at Fifth Avenue)

2:00 PM: DANIEL HYDE, Oganist
St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd Street (at Fifth Avenue)

3:00 PM: BROOKLYN BAROQUE – “The Virtuoso Recorder”
Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace (between West 160th and West 162nd Streets)

SUNDAY – October 22
2:00 PM: RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS
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3:00 PM: POMERIUM – “Flemish Musical Mastery in the Age of Hieronymus Bosch”
Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch, 552 West End Avenue (at West 87th Street)

4:00 PM: PATRICK ALLEN – “Weekend Organ Meditation”
Grace Church, 802 Broadway (at 10th Street)
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5:00 PM: EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK – FREDERICK RENZ, Director – “BarokOrkest”
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street

For comprehensive information about each event, visit www.NYEMC.org
Early Music Foundation presents NYEMC
Flanders HouseDutch Culture USANetherland-America Foundation
The Morgan Library & Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris-Jumel Mansion,
Music Before 1800, Grace Church in New York, The Riverside Church in the City of New York, Saint Thomas Church – Fifth Avenue New York City
This project has received funding through a grant from
the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA,
and the Netherland-America Foundation,
and is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program
by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
New York State Council on the ArtsEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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