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Newberry Consort Revives Music By 17th-Century Mexican Composer
Early Music America review by Kyle MacMillan, April 5, 2021 Sometimes the most exciting discoveries are waiting to be made right in your own backyard. That was certainly the case with the Newberry Consort, a nationally known early-music ensemble in Chicago, and the...
Newberry Consort releases new music collection, brings new life to Juan de Lienas’ 17th century collection
Ella Weaver, Reporter | The Daily Northwestern • February 4, 2021 • https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/02/04/ae/newberry-consort-releases-new-music-collection-brings-new-life-to-juan-de-lienas-17th-century-collection/ The Newberry Consort is swapping out church...
Behind the Scenes with The Newberry Consort – 2021
Announcing new FREE online early music offerings! As we move into a new year (goodbye, 2020!) and look forward to live performances this fall, we’ll continue to bring you videos by the fabulous Shawn Keener featuring live audio from past concerts and recorded...
June 3, 2020
A Message to our Audience We hope that you are all navigating these unprecedented times safely and securely. Although we could not bring you our last program of the 2019-2020 season due to the COVID-19 health crisis, we are busy at home planning wonderful programs...
Ilz Fantasie – Josquin
Click below for another tantalizing preview of the beautiful Italian Renaissance music you will hear at these special concerts. In this clip, taken from a live performance, Piffaro musicians play Josquin's "Ilz Fantazie" which will be performed at our concerts Feb....
Meet Piffaro, our partners for our upcoming concert, The Marchesa!
Our upcoming February project, The Marchesa, is a collaboration with Philadelphia-based wind band Piffaro. Like the Newberry Consort, (founded 1986), Piffaro is one of the longest running, most successful early music ensembles in North America. What began in 1980...
Who was Isabella d’Este?
February 7-9, 2020, we bring music from the unique court of Isabella d’Este to Chicagoland stages. These concerts, a collaboration with acclaimed Renaissance wind band Piffaro [link to website] will prominently feature our own Ellen Hargis performing frottole, a...
Meet Salomé and Lucía, two musicians in A Mexican Christmas!
Sopranos Salomé Sandoval McNutt and Lucía Mier y Terán Romero will perform as part of the Convent Ensemble in A Mexican Christmas this December 6-8th! Read on to learn more about these multi-faceted artists and why they're excited to join The Newberry Consort...
An interview with Dr. Robert Kendrick, our pre-concert lecturer!
We are so looking forward to the pre-concert chats at our upcoming performances of The Empress. At all three concerts, Dr. Robert L. Kendrick will be sharing his insights into Margarita Teresa’s fascinating life at the court of the Holy Roman Empire,...
The Wedding of Margarita & Leopold
The marriage of the teenaged princess Margarita Teresa of Spain to her uncle, Emperor Leopold I, entailed a long-awaited, well-planned series of festivities. Like the union itself, the celebration of their wedding was designed to demonstrate and perpetuate the...
Who was Margarita Teresa?
Born into the Spanish line of the Habsburgs, Margarita Teresa's (1651-1673) birth was the product of one in a long line of avunculate—that is, interfamilial—marriages within the distinguished royal family. Her father, King Philip IV of Spain, married her mother,...
Who wrote the hits? Popular composers in Renaissance France
In today’s music business, it’s often said that it’s all in who you know. Well, things weren’t much different in 16th-century France! Back then, the ruling monarch granted royal privileges, (an old-fashioned kind of copyright), to select music publishers. In turn,...