Image: King David playing the harp in a procession of musicians, from The Maciejowski Bible (PML 638), c. 1250
Presented as part of the SoHIP concert series.
The quest for political power has changed little over the centuries. Kings and Presidents, popes and senators, all have their partisans, their detractors, their scandals, and their victories. Long before today's 24-hour news cycle, the propaganda machine ran on verse. Meravelha’s timely tour of Medieval political songs explores themes of nationalism, corruption, greed, propaganda, and justice for the common people. The program includes songs of the troubadours, works by Philip the Chancellor and Robert Morton, and selections from the Roman de Fauvel, the Trinity Carol Roll, the Notre Dame conductus repertoire, and the Carmina Burana. Between songs, the performers provide cultural and historical context for the music, and modern readings from social media and public commentary connect these works to our contemporary experiences.
This concert will be recorded on July 23rd and aired on YouTube on August 8th
Teri Kowiak, artisticdirector, voice
Joy Grimes, bowed strings
Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion
Jaya Lakshminarayanan, voice, harp
Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion
Eric Miller, voice
Catherine Stein, voice, winds
Presented as part of the SoHIP concert series.
The quest for political power has changed little over the centuries. Kings and Presidents, popes and senators, all have their partisans, their detractors, their scandals, and their victories. Long before today's 24-hour news cycle, the propaganda machine ran on verse. Meravelha’s timely tour of Medieval political songs explores themes of nationalism, corruption, greed, propaganda, and justice for the common people. The program includes songs of the troubadours, works by Philip the Chancellor and Robert Morton, and selections from the Roman de Fauvel, the Trinity Carol Roll, the Notre Dame conductus repertoire, and the Carmina Burana. Between songs, the performers provide cultural and historical context for the music, and modern readings from social media and public commentary connect these works to our contemporary experiences.
This concert will be recorded on July 23rd and aired on YouTube on August 8th
Teri Kowiak, artisticdirector, voice
Joy Grimes, bowed strings
Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion
Jaya Lakshminarayanan, voice, harp
Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion
Eric Miller, voice
Catherine Stein, voice, winds
Presented as part of the SoHIP concert series.
The quest for political power has changed little over the centuries. Kings and Presidents, popes and senators, all have their partisans, their detractors, their scandals, and their victories. Long before today's 24-hour news cycle, the propaganda machine ran on verse. Meravelha’s timely tour of Medieval political songs explores themes of nationalism, corruption, greed, propaganda, and justice for the common people. The program includes songs of the troubadours, works by Philip the Chancellor and Robert Morton, and selections from the Roman de Fauvel, the Trinity Carol Roll, the Notre Dame conductus repertoire, and the Carmina Burana. Between songs, the performers provide cultural and historical context for the music, and modern readings from social media and public commentary connect these works to our contemporary experiences.
This concert will be recorded on July 23rd and aired on YouTube on August 8th
Teri Kowiak, artisticdirector, voice
Joy Grimes, bowed strings
Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion
Jaya Lakshminarayanan, voice, harp
Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion
Eric Miller, voice
Catherine Stein, voice, winds
Join Meravelha for an evening in celebration of midwinter, featuring music, readings and imagery from the Medieval era. Our program includes pieces from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Dufay and Hildegard Von Bingen, as well as settings of Middle English texts by local favorite John Fleagle.
Meravelha: Teri Kowiak, director, voice, hurdy-gurdy; Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion, hurdy-gurdy; Eric J. Miller, voice; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
featured on the King’s Chapel Tuesday Recital Series
Join Meravelha for an afternoon in celebration of midwinter, featuring music, readings and imagery from the Medieval era. Our program includes pieces from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Dufay and Hildegard Von Bingen, as well as settings of Middle English texts by local favorite John Fleagle.
Meravelha: Teri Kowiak, director, voice, hurdy-gurdy; Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, voice, winds, percussion, hurdy-gurdy; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
This program of Medieval political songs explores themes of nationalism, corruption, greed, propaganda, and justice for the common people. Repertoire is pulled from the Roman de Fauvel, the Carmina Burana, and the Notre Dame Conductus Repertoire, among others.
The medieval period in England lasted for nearly a thousand years, starting from the end of the 5th century and ending around the start of the Early Modern Period in 1485. The rise of Anglo-Saxons and Christianity, and then the Norman Invasion and finally famine, disease and war provided a rich tapestry of patronage and subject matter for artists of all media. Our program explores this broad milieu from the monophonic plainchant of the early Middle Ages through polyphony influenced by the Ars Nova, and Contenance Angloise, including works found in the Old Hall Manuscript.
Teri Kowiak - voice, hurdy-gurdy, artistic director
Barbara Hill - voice, percussion executive director
Jaya Lakshminarayanan - voice, harp
Dan Meyers - voice, winds, bagpipes, percussion
Ciarán Nagle - voice
Cathy Stein - voice, winds
This concert is offered as part of Early Music America's #EarlyMusicMonth
The Salon Series of Boston is an annual series of concerts aimed at building a larger community with the contemplation of great art at its center.
The ladies of Meravelha, in celebration of the naming of Hildegard von Bingen as the fourth female doctor of the church, perform her music and readings from her prose. Poet, composer, mystic, theologian, medicine woman and expert cookie baker, Hildegard was a “Renaissance” woman before such a term even existed!
Meravelha teams up with Peter Walker for a brand new program. The Lionheart will be a program of medieval French songs chosen from the troubadour and trouvère repertoires that together tell a story of the life of Richard I. Despite (or perhaps because of) his great historical status, portrayals of King Richard I in the modern era tend to place him in the background as a sort of Deus ex machina figure who rides in to change the tide of an ongoing story (e.g., pardoning Robin Hood). Our program The Lionheart seeks to remedy this by telling the stories of this King’s own greatest adventures. The performance will include unaccompanied vocal pieces, original arrangements of monody with instrumental accompaniment, and instrumental pieces on harp, vielle, winds, hurdy-gurdy, citole and percussion.
Meravelha teams up with Peter Walker for a brand new program. The Lionheart will be a program of medieval French songs chosen from the troubadour and trouvère repertoires that together tell a story of the life of Richard I. Despite (or perhaps because of) his great historical status, portrayals of King Richard I in the modern era tend to place him in the background as a sort of Deus ex machina figure who rides in to change the tide of an ongoing story (e.g., pardoning Robin Hood). Our program The Lionheart seeks to remedy this by telling the stories of this King’s own greatest adventures. The performance will include unaccompanied vocal pieces, original arrangements of monody with instrumental accompaniment, and instrumental pieces on harp, vielle, winds, hurdy-gurdy, citole and percussion.
