As Villarosa wraps up, BCE begins to look toward our next program: TENEBRÆ. The centerpiece of which is Paul Crabtree’s Tenebræ Responsories on Songs by Bob Dylan. Paul’s music is heard around the country and below is an excerpt from a concert announcement at Westminster Choir College where his Meanwhile (2009) will receive a second [...]

Yesterday in NB, we published audio clips from a telephone conversation between BCE’s music director, Miguel Felipe, and Thomas Jennefelt, the composer of the Villarosa Sequences which the Boston Choral Ensemble will perform during the weekend. In the last post, they discussed Mr. Jennefelt’s musical beginnings and his thoughts on his work. Today, they chat about [...]

With only days before BCE offers Villarosa its first complete performance outside Sweden, NB is pleased to publish a two-part interview with the composer, Mr. Thomas Jennefelt. BCE’s music director, Miguel Felipe, chatted with Mr. Jennefelt from his home in Sweden. Their conversation is presented below. In today’s excerpts they discuss Mr. Jennfelt’s musical background [...]

With every piece of music there’s a story behind its creation. With Villarosa Sequences, there are seven stories: one for each movement! In the case of “Claviante brilioso” the commissioning ensemble is the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble and the premiere performance was in Jennefelt’s native land of Sweden. The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble is led [...]

Teresa Wakim, Boston-based soprano, chatted with NB recently about her work preparing to perform the Villarosa Sequences with BCE. The second half of that interview appears here. NOTA BENE: Is your approach to a new piece of music any different than an established work? Do you feel any sense of obligation when you know you’re [...]

NB e-chatted with Teresa Wakim this week and will post both halves of our extended interview. Today, Ms. Wakim talks about her work as a singer in broad terms. Check back tomorrow when she chats about her work on this program. NOTA BENE: Can you tell NB a bit about your current activities as a [...]

BCE’s music director, Miguel Felipe, is thrilled to introduce our guest soprano soloist for the Villarosa Sequences: Teresa Wakim. Although she’s known to many local audiences for her work with Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Boston Early Music Festival, and Boston Secession, her reputation extends far further and we’re thrilled she’ll be [...]

Before we introduce the soprano who’ll offer “Strimoni volio’s” US premiere, NB wants to introduce you to the woman for whom the work was written. Jeanette Köhn is a Swedish soprano whose list of accomplishments is long! Below is an short biography adapted from her personal website. For more information, visit her here. Jeanette Köhn [...]

One of the most exciting aspects of NB is our ability to connect with composers and performers from around the world without any regard for their distance from our Boston-based concerts. Today, in a first, we are able to bring you a post directly from Mr. Thomas Jennefelt. Indeed, this is the first in a [...]

When NB interviewed Miguel Felipe, BCE’s music director, back in September, he told us about BCE’s East Coast premiere of Paul Crabtree’s Tenebræ Responsories slated for the Ensemble’s TENEBRÆ concert in March 2010. BCE’s hardly the first, however, to program the music of the British-born composer Paul Crabtree. This San Francisco resident has appeared on [...]