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January 2019
LD Steps Out: CPL West Park Branch
LD Steps Out with a free family-friendly performance of medieval music presented at West Park Branch Library in partnership with the Cleveland Public Library. Grab a seat – or on a spot on the floor – and enjoy this introduction to medieval songs and instruments! Featuring music from the recently-discovered Leuven Songbook (c. 1470) with an ensemble of eight singers and…
Find out more »LD Steps Out: Akron Children’s Museum
LD Steps Out with a free family-friendly performance of medieval music presented in partnership with the Akron Children's Museum. Grab a seat – or on a spot on the floor – and enjoy this introduction to medieval songs and instruments! The program is FREE with museum admission. Featuring music from the recently-discovered Leuven Songbook (c. 1470) with Jason McStoots (tenor), Debra…
Find out more »The Leuven Songbook
Diminutive, precious, and sometimes highly decorated, songbooks were the mix-tapes of their day. Compiled with care for a specific individual, they not only included popular songs but also totally unique works. Les Délices brings the music and images from the recently-discovered Leuven Songbook to vivid life in this multimedia program including gorgeous projected manuscript images and supertitles. Produced in collaboration with…
Find out more »LD@Play: Songbooks & Storytelling
LD@Play is Les Délices’ series of family-oriented programs at 3pm on Saturdays at the BOP STOP. These free interactive programs last 45 minutes and are designed children aged 5-12. Come early to do some program-related coloring, have a drink or a snack, and settle in for a fun musical afternoon! Songbooks & Storytelling – Choose your own adventure! Enjoy music…
Find out more »The Leuven Songbook
Diminutive, precious, and sometimes highly decorated, songbooks were the mix-tapes of their day. Compiled with care for a specific individual, they not only included popular songs but also totally unique works. Les Délices brings the music and images from the recently-discovered Leuven Songbook to vivid life in this multimedia program including gorgeous projected manuscript images and supertitles. Produced in collaboration with…
Find out more »The Leuven Songbook
Diminutive, precious, and sometimes highly decorated, songbooks were the mix-tapes of their day. Compiled with care for a specific individual, they not only included popular songs but also totally unique works. Les Délices brings the music and images from the recently-discovered Leuven Songbook to vivid life in this multimedia program including gorgeous projected manuscript images and supertitles. Produced in collaboration with…
Find out more »LD@Work: Mozart in Paris-Part 1
The LD@Work series provides a fresh perspective on creative artists’ process: people can simply drop in to these informal, working rehearsals as we prepare for public concerts. Repeated listening also provides additional insight into the music. Join us as we prepare for an upcoming tour of Mozart in Paris-Part 1 featuring cellist Elinor Frey. Discover the delights of Classical chamber music…
Find out more »February 2019
Mozart in Paris
Presented by Pittsburgh State University. With plentiful performance opportunities and a booming market for published music, Europe’s most fashionable city should have been ripe for the young Mozart’s picking! But the strong-willed, young composer lost out when he refused to network with influential people or accommodate French tastes. Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey joins Les Délices for this special program that…
Find out more »Mozart in Paris
Presented by Wilton Candlelight Concerts. With plentiful performance opportunities and a booming market for published music, Europe’s most fashionable city should have been ripe for the young Mozart’s picking! But the strong-willed, young composer lost out when he refused to network with influential people or accommodate French tastes. Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey joins Les Délices for this special program that pairs…
Find out more »Songs without Words
Les Délices presents their popular Baroque-Jazz Crossover program Songs without Words for Providence College. Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century songs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into the 20th Century with torch songs and jazz standards arranged and improvised by the ensemble. Music by baroque composers Lambert, Lully, and Marais is heard…
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