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soundbytes Compiled by Mark Longaker Awards & Grants Soprano Chelsea Morris (ﬁrst prize and audience favorite), countertenor Daniel Moody (second prize), and soprano Yukie Sato (third prize) were the winners in the Handel Aria Competition at the Madison Early Music Festival in July. Paciﬁc MusicWorks director Stephen Stubbs was named to receive the 2014 Mayor's Arts Award for Raising the Bar in Seattle, where his group is based. Stubbs, a Seattle native who also codirects the Boston Early Music Festival, will be Stubbs receiving his award at a public ceremony Aug. 29 at the Seattle Center. Seattle-based Early Music Guild has been selected for the 2014 Seattle Award in the art category by the Seattle Award Program, which annually honors the achievements of local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and the community. John Romey, a Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology with an emphasis on historical performance, will spend the 2014-15 academic Romey year in France as a Fulbright Research Scholar. The fellowship provides Romey access to the vast archives at the Bibliothèque National de France and the Comédie Française, as well as other archives in and around Paris. He will be afﬁliated and work with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Laury Gutiérrez, founding director of La Donna Musicale in Boston, recently received the seventh annual Daniel Pinkham Award, presented by Boston LGBT classical chorus Coro Allegro to recognize outstanding contributors to the LGBT community. Mezzo-soprano Peabody Southwell, who recently starred in Paciﬁc MusicWorks' Semele production, was named the Musical America Artist of the Month for May. The Handel and Haydn Society, directed by Harry Christophers in Boston, recently announced the winners of its three annual scholarships for local high school and college students, awarding them to Jenna Lorusso, Andrew Milne, and Jessica Toupin. Philadelphia chamber choir the Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, recently received a grant of $240,000 from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for its "Seven Responses" project, which will commission seven of the world's leading composers to create responses to Buxtehude's 1680 Jesu Membra Nostri. The responses will be premiered in two concerts with Quicksilver Baroque, codirected by Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, and new music group International Contemporary Ensemble, directed by Claire Chase. Each concert will alternate a sacred cantata from Buxtehude's seven-cantata work with the modern secular cantata that was written in response to it. Comings & Goings Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, has renewed his contract through 2020. Since 1985, he and Philharmonia Baroque have brought earlier repertoire to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Pacific MusicWorks has appointed harpist Maxine Eilander, who has been the Seattle group's director of education since its founding Anonymous 4 in Farewell Season (For Real) Anonymous 4 has announced it will split up at the end of the 2015-16 season after three decades during which they released more than 20 recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label, toured three dozen countries and 49 states-they still haven't made it to South Dakota-and sang music spanning a millennium. "It's been a fabulous ride for us," says founding member Susan Hellauer, who came up with the quartet's name and does much of the musical research. "We have made so many friends, done things, gone places, and sung songs beyond our wildest musical dreams. But all good things must come to an end... and this will be it." "We still care very deeply for each other," says founding member Marsha Genensky, who now spends time teaching workshops about forming musical communities. Outside projects are increasingly preoccupying the group's members. Cunningham has become a certified sound healer, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek (who joined the group in 1998) recently entered the doctoral voice program at Juilliard. As for Hellauer, she oversees Chant Village, which aims to raise awareness of sacred music around the world. Anonymous 4 made what Genensky calls a "halfhearted" attempt to retire as a group in 2004, but that only resulted in the group reducing its activities from Anonymous 4: clockwise from left, Jacqueline HornerKwiatek, Susan Hellauer, Ruth Cunningham, and Marsha Genensky. full time to part time. In June, they recorded 1865, an album of Civil War music with Bruce Molsky. It is slated for release next year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's conclusion. Read an NPR article here: http://tinyurl.com/k736s2g.-ML Early Music America Fall 2014 5 http://www.tinyurl.com/k736s2g

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Fall 2014

Editor’s Note
Baroque Competition
Sound Bytes
Musings: Ave Atque Vale
Musings: Ave Atque Vale
Recording Reviews
Recording Reviews
Aetas Aurea: An Early Music Macbeth
Aetas Aurea: An Early Music Macbeth
Mysterious Titles, Hidden Meaning
Mysterious Titles, Hidden Meaning
Viola da Gamba Dojo
Viola da Gamba Dojo
A Joyful Noise: Highlights of BFX 2014
A Joyful Noise: Highlights of BFX 2014
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
EMA Donations
EMA Donations
Ad Index
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Sam Franko and the Origins of the Early Music Movement
In Conclusion: Sam Franko and the Origins of the Early Music Movement

Early Music America Fall 2014