The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #91-51, Air Date: 12/23/91
The holly and the ivy, carols and mistletoe, wassail and feasting... This holiday special traces much of what we identify as the Christmas holiday to its roots in the tribal customs and celebrations of the peoples of the British Isles. What they invented, the Christmas carol, was as Robert Aubry Davis shows us, the perfect blend of folk music and sacred art.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-03, Air Date: 01/09/17
Arthurian medieval music, the latest from the Gothic Voices, and love songs of the Chansonnier Cordiform (“Shaped like a Heart”)
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-01, Air Date: 12/31/12
It has been a rough year, especially in New York and environs--let's give the last word for the season to New York Polyphony, with music for the Twelve Days and the New Year.
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