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THE TOP 5 SHOWS IN MoM’S HISTORY:
1). CHANT—While the program had often used performances by the monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, the packaging put them (and chant in general) on the map. My only Platinum Disc then, or ever.
2). SONGS OF THE SIBYLS—Reconstructions of the predictions of the ancient mystical women who advised Caesars and poets, this pre-Christian expression kept alive in Christianity’s early years was hair-raisingly reconstructed by the Hesperion XX ensemble—popular enough for the ensemble to produce three sequels..
3). ANGEL’S VISIT—Norwegian feminist icon Anne-Lise Berntsen reconstructing late medieval and renaissance Nordic folksong in an ancient church with a contemporary organist-composer…as unlikely, and fabulous, as it sounds.
4). TOP 10 EARLY MUSIC RECORDINGS—From 1986 until 2001, Fr. Jerome Weber of Fanfare and Goldberg magazines would chose the best discs of the year, from chant to early baroque—record companies noted a jump in sales from 10 to 15% overnight.
5). SERVICES FOM A DALMATIAN CATHEDRAL—The 2002 Utrecht Festival featured a series of performances from ancient Croatia that were heart-rending and soul-expanding—in this ancient crossroads of empire, everything from east and west was poured into a musical mosaic that truly sounds like nothing else.
- From an article by Robert Aubry Davis printed in the WETA magazine, Washington, D.C.
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