Pro Musica Antiqua (other)

	Pro Musica Antiqua (other) Pro Musica Antiqua (Latin, "for ancient music") may refer to: ''The Pro Musica Antiqua'' song by jazz performer Blossom Dearie from her LB ''My New Celebrity Is You'' Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels, 1930s ensemble of Safford Cape New York Pro Musica, founded (1952) as Pro Musica Antiqua, ensemble specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music Pro Musica Antiqua (Polish ensemble), 1992 See also Pro Cantione Antiqua Pro Cantione Antiqua of London (PCA) is a British choral group which was founded in 1968 by tenor James Griffett, counter-tenor Paul Esswood, and conductor and producer Mark Brown. Their first concert was at St Bartholomew's, Smithfield with Bria ... , English early music group {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Blossom Dearie Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She had a recognizably light and girlish voice.[ Profile at AllMusic] Dearie performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years and collaborated with many musicians, including Johnny Mercer, Miles Davis, Jack Segal, Johnny Mandel, Duncan Lamont (musician), Duncan Lamont, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, and Jay Berliner. Early life Margrethe Blossom Dearie was born on April 28, 1924, in East Durham, New York, to a father of Scotch-Irish American, Scots Irish descent and a mother of Norwegian descent. She reportedly received the name Blossom because of "a neighbor who delivered peach blossoms to her house the day she was born", although she once recalled it was her brothers who brought the flowers to the house. Career Beginnings After high school, Dearie moved to Manhattan to pursue a music career. Dropping her first name, she began to sing in groups such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Safford Cape Safford Cape (28 June 1906 - 26 March 1973) was an American conductor, composer and musicologist. Born and educated in Denver, Colorado, Cape moved to Belgium in 1925 to further his studies in composition and musicology. From 1933, after a few years of chamber music composition, Cape began focusing on the performance of medieval and Renaissance music. To this end, he founded and conducted the Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels, an ensemble specialising on music from the medieval and Renaissance periods. This group toured throughout Europe and the Americas and produced many recordings. Cape's work inspired Noah Greenberg to form a similar ensemble in America, the New York Pro Musica which was recorded first by EMS Recordings EMS Recordings was founded in 1949 by Jack Skurnick in New York City. The company won first prize at the Audio Fair of 1950 for the high quality and interest of its recordings. It issued the first recording of works of Edgard Varese. Skurnick's par .... For healt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	New York Pro Musica New York Pro Musica was a vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City, which specialized in Medieval and Renaissance early music, music. It was co-founded in 1952, under the name Pro Musica Antiqua, by Noah Greenberg, a choral director, and Bernard Krainis, a recorder (musical instrument), recorder player who studied with Erich Katz. Other prominent musicians who joined included Russell Oberlin (the first American countertenor) and Martha Blackman (the first American Viola da gamba, gambist) and Frederick Renz, who founded Early Music Foundation after Pro Musica disbanded. The ensemble is perhaps best known for reviving the medieval ''Play of Daniel'' in the 1950s, which has since become a popular liturgical drama among early music groups. The group gave its first concert at the New School for Social Research in New York City on April 26, 1953. The ensemble performed in 1960 for the Peabody Mason Concert series in Boston.''Boston Globe'', 17-Oct-1960, Cyrus Durgin, "New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pro Musica Antiqua (Polish Ensemble) Pro Musica Antiqua is a Polish classical chamber group founded by the flautist Leszek Szarzyński in Olsztyn Olsztyn ( , ; german: Allenstein ; Old Prussian: ''Alnāsteini'' * Latin: ''Allenstenium'', ''Holstin'') is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with county rights. ... in 1992. The chamber ensemble specializes in baroque and early classical music of Eastern Europe. References Early music groups Polish musical groups {{Poland-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Radio Bremen Radio Bremen (RB), Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster, is the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (which includes Bremerhaven). With its headquarters sited in Bremen, Radio Bremen is a member of the consortium of German public broadcasting organizations, ARD. History In 1922 the "Deutsche Stunde für drahtlose Belehrung und Unterhaltung" (''German Hour for Wireless Education and Entertainment'') was founded with the participation of Ludwig Roselius. On 2 May 1924 Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) began broadcasting. On 30 November 1924, the "Zwischensender" Bremen was put into operation. It distributed the program from Hamburg and produced daily 3–4 hours program for the NORAG. After World War II, Radio Bremen began transmitting a daily programme on AM radio on 23 December 1945 under the post-war occupation of Germany by the Allied powers. Although located in an enclave entirely surrounded by the British Zone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Piae Cantiones ''Piae Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum'' (in English ''Pious ecclesiastical and school songs of the ancient bishops'') is a collection of late medieval Latin songs first published in 1582. It was compiled by Jacobus Finno, a clergyman who was headmaster of the Katedralskolan i Åbo, cathedral school at Turku. Publication was undertaken by Theodoricus Petri Rutha of Uusimaa, Nyland, who lived from about 1560 to about 1630.Robert Cummings, "Personent hodie" at [ allmusic], URL accessed January 4, 2009 He came from an aristocratic family in Finland, and was educated at University of Rostock, Rostock. The collection ''Piae Cantiones'' was published in Greifswald, duchy of Pomerania, Germany, and includes 74 Latin and Swedish/Latin songs that were sung at the time in Finnish cathedral schools, most notably in the Katedralskolan i Åbo, cathedral school at Turku. Most of them are religious in nature but some, for example ''Tempus adest floridum'', are secula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]