EARLY-MUSIC GROUP MAKING A NAME FOR ITSELF.Byline: - Fred Shuster Anonymous 4 is better-known than the name implies. For 16 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time celebrated early-music ensemble has refined its sound, developing a rare vocal blend while interweaving music, poetry and narrative. The New York-based singers will introduce ``Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols,'' a 90-minute holiday program, Dec. 7 and 8 at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall. It will include medieval songs and traditional carols along with contemporary works and culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in Benjamin Britten's timeless ``A Ceremony of Carols.'' The quartet is known for its stirring performances around the world and for singing on the soundtrack of the Criterion Collection DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. release of Carl Dreyer's landmark 1928 silent film, ``The Passion of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. ,'' which has been shown recently on the Sundance Channel. ``For Christmas, we're branching out a bit,'' explains group member Johanna Maria Rose, who first fell in love with Renaissance music Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century. as a child. ``We're combining traditional wintertime songs in a variety of Celtic languages Celtic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east, where a district still .'' At UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , the quartet - Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner and Rose - will be accompanied by Alyssa Reit, one of the premier American harpists. ``We see quite a range in our audiences,'' Rose said. ``When we first began singing together, we drew the really hard-core early-music fans. But now that we include contemporary pieces, we've seen the audience broaden.'' Anonymous 4's latest album, a collection of 13th-century French religious songs, climbed to No. 7 on the classical charts. ``I was exposed to Gregorian chants and other kinds of music in school when some of the teachers were in an early-music ensemble themselves,'' Rose said. ``It was invaluable to come across that music. I remember thinking how exciting this was, a brand-new sound I'd never heard before.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) no caption (Anonymous 4) |
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