Friday, May 29, 2015
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
40 years of The Tallis Scholars
The asociated music program - it will be available online for a year.
BBC3 In Tune: Tallis Scholars, Steve Reich, Curtis Stigers (expires in 7 days)
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Friday, October 28, 2011
Items of Interest, 28 October 2011
Politics:
John C.Calhoun: Nullification, Secession, and the Constitution by Marco Bassani
Lee Trepanier, If Music Be Food For Citizenship
"One of purposes of education, perhaps its primary one, is the cultivation of intellectual and moral excellence of citizens who, in turn, will promote an improved political regime. In other words, the regime exists for the education of its citizens instead of education existing for the sake of the regime."
The regime is the ordering of the members of a community to the common good. So in that sense it is for the sake of those members, but the end of the regime should not be understood as the many private goods of the individuals.
Relocalization:
Bay Area Equity & Resilience Convening Promo - November 11
Bay Localize
The Economics of Happiness Conference
Berkeley, California, March 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2012
Thomas Storck, Decentralism and Subsidiarity: Applications to Society and Culture
A new book: Local Dollars, Local Sense
Ten Ways to Turn From Consumer to Producer
Farming:
Groundbreaking Opportunity: The Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act
Quail Hollow Farm
Farm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco By Laura Bledsoe
Southern Nevada Health Inspector Mary Oakes under orders from Supervisor Susan LeBay a pool inspector in 2005 visits Quail Hollow Farm on night of Farm To Fork Dinner October 21, 2011.
ARiver of Waste
Environmentalism:
Chip Ward, Occupy Earth
Energy:
Are we reaching “Limits to Growth”? by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Amory Lovins On Creating A Prosperous Economy Without Oil, Coal, Or Nuclear by Ariel Schwartz
Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Quo Vaids, OWS?
Paul Craig Roberts, Living in a Delusional World
Linh Dinh, A Gathering of Tribes
Diet:
WAPF: Experts to Challenge Dietary Myths about Fats, Salt, Plant-Based Diets
MDA: The Doctor Told Me He Could Not Believe It
Clothing:
TAD - Shag Master Hoodie
Gear Junkie: Softshell Jackets Buyers Guide 2011
Early This Morning in Colonial Williamsburg: Hats
Friday Video: Silent Screen Actresses Model Flapper Fashions, 1928
Music:
Peter Phillips - A new Credo...by Josquin
Miranda Lambert: Breaking the Country Music Mold
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
In the area this weekend: the Tallis Scholars.
$26 for UCB students, $47 for non-UCB students. Did they perform in Berkeley when I was there for undergrad? What a missed opportunity if so... I don't think I'll be able to go this year.
Tomás Luis de Victoria is the focus of the two performances.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
First Lamentation for Maundy Thursday by Victoria
The timing is off, but since it was recently uploaded onto Youtube, I decided to post it now rather than later.
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Monday, October 05, 2009
Lucie Skeaping is joined by Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars to explore some of the defining qualities and the ethos of Renaissance polyphony. She asks what has prompted their enthusiasm for it and learns how working with this music has encouraged the group to find a distinctive sound and performing methodology. Including excerpts from some of the Tallis Scholars many recordings.
Expires in 4 days.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
This week on the BBC Early Music Show: the Tallis Scholars
Catherine Bott presents a performance of John Taverner's Missa Corona Spirea by the Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, given as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009.
The ensemble also perform the winning two entries of the 2009 National Centre for Early Music's Young Composers' Award - Arise by Elizabeth Edwards and God by Michael Perrett. Catherine introduces the music, meets the composers and talks to Peter Phillips about the work of the Tallis Scholars and about the competition.
For more information about the competition go to: http://www.ncem.co.uk/cgi/projects/projects.cgi?t=template.htm&a=66
Playlist:
All music performed by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, recorded at the York Early Music Festival 2009.
John Taverner: Leroy Kyrie; Gloria (The Crown of Thorns mass/Missa Corona spinea)
Elizabeth Edwards: Arise
(winner in the NCEM Young Composers' Award younger category)Taverner: Sanctus (The Crown of Thorns mass)
Michael Perrett: God
(winner in the NCEM Young Composers' Award category)Taverner: Agnus Dei (The Crown of Thorns mass)
Further details of the 2010 National Centre for Early Music Composers' Award to be published in 2009.
The Tallis Scholars
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Featured this weekend on the Early Music Show: Palestrina!

Palestrina
6 days left to listen
Catherine Bott travels to Italy to try and discover more about the composer Palestrina.
Catherine Bott travels high into the Apennines to the ancient Italian city of Palestrina to try to discover more about the city's most famous son, the famed 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Was he really born in this sleepy Italian mountain-side town?
Playlist:
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (excerpt)
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (conductor)
GIMELL GIMSE401, Tr 5
Palestrina: Salve Regina
Ensemble Vocal Regional de Champagne-Ardenne
Francoise Lasserre
PIERRE VERANY PV794041, Tr 2
Vinders: O mors inevitabilis
Obsidienne
Emmanuel Bonnardot (conductor)
CALLIOPE CAL9305, Tr 16
Dufay: Ut Queant Laxis (a hymn revised by de Orto in Rome and still used in services it seems at the time that Palestrina was there)
This recording is preceded by the Antiphona: Puer qui natus est
Schola Hungarica
Janka Szendrei (conductor)
HUNGAROTON HCD12951, Tr 13
Palestrina: Motet: Exsultate Deo
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
ARGO 410 0052, Tr 1
Palestrina: Madrigal: la ver l'aurora
Andrea Damiani (lute)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
TACTUS TC521601, Tr 8
Segue to:
Palestrina: Virgine, tal e terra
The Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier (conductor)
EMI CDS 7490108 CD2, Tr 19
Palestrina: Magnificat
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Edward Higginbottom (conductor)
COLLINS CLASSICS 15092, Tr 2
Palestrina: Hymn: veni creator spiritus
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67353, Tr 11.
Plus: Valentina Varriale
5 days left to listen
Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert from the city of Palestrina.
Monday, September 01, 2008
Cal Performances
I was looking through the brochure for the new season, and discovered that the Tallis Scholars (March 28) and Le Concert des Nations w/Jordi Savall (Feb. 27-8), Yo-Yo Ma (May 15) and Cecilia Bartoli (Feb. 22), will be coming to Berkeley.
But tickets cost $52 for the early music performances! Unbelievable! For the BEMF one can get student rush tickets for $20 or less!!! I suppose Cal thinks it can charge the rich people and not-so-rich students in the area those kind of prices and still pack the house. (And they are probably right.)
Eh, would I purchase a Cal Alumni Association membership just to get the alumni discount? Edit. At least there is a discount for non-UCB students.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Byrd, Ave Verum Corpus
Pinecrest Chamber Ensemble - Ave Verum Corpus
Pinecrest Presbyterian Church
Ave Verum Corpus de William Byrd (Amici del canto)
Amici del Canto
Fond du Lac High School Concert Choir
台北市大直高中合唱團