Looking forward to this. I participated in a couple of Jane Alden's productions with Vocal Constructivists, She has sent me a round-robin with the following further information on the programme:
You have shared my journey into 1960s experimentalism, and I look forward to further collaborations in this realm (VCs in July?). I am writing now to invite you to tune in for a programme that relates to my more established research area. I spent decades writing and thinking about five petite, deluxe, French songbooks, which were believed to be the only such manuscripts to survive from the 1460s-70s. Then in 2013 a related but hitherto unknown songbook was sold at auction in Brussels (as part of a job lot, for €3600). The book’s true value was quickly discovered, and it now resides in the Alamire Foundation in Leuven, known as the Leuven Chansonnier. I am deeply honored to be talking about—and playing recordings of music from--this manuscript on the BBC’s Early Music Show tomorrow (Sunday), at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001078m. If you are not able to listen live at 2pm GMT, don’t worry! It will be available worldwide for 30 days, so you should be able to listen directly from this (the Early Music Show) website, or from the BBC Radio 3 schedule here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8t/2022/02/13.
In gratitude to the mysterious chain of owners who looked after this manuscript for 550 years, and to those mentors and colleagues who introduced me to the group, and shaped and shared my journey with them, I offer ‘De plus en plus’ (as Binchois said, in an influential song from the 1420s).
In gratitude to the mysterious chain of owners who looked after this manuscript for 550 years, and to those mentors and colleagues who introduced me to the group, and shaped and shared my journey with them, I offer ‘De plus en plus’ (as Binchois said, in an influential song from the 1420s).
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I was surprised at a lined, but empty page - when the rest had been so beautifully embellished.
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