Review; Newberry Consort Revives Historic Music Tradition

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The Newberry Consort surveyed the secular music of Elizabethan England Saturday evening to open Early Music Now's 20th presenting season.

The music ranged chronologically from works by Robert Johnson (1540-1625) to John Wilson (1595-1674) and stylistically from brainy counterpoint to humble folk songs. The folk music, as interpreted by arranger-violinist David Douglass, sounds close to what we think of today as Celtic music the Chieftains wouldn't stretch much to take up "The Beginning of the World," a swaggering drinking anthem.

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Review; Newberry Consort Revives Historic Music Tradition

Polyphony, though, dominated the evening, even in the songs for voice and lute. Courtly lutenists of the day did not merely ...

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