Hesperus is an early music and

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ensemble. It was founded by Scott Reiss and

Tina Chancey Tina Chancey is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in early bowed strings from the rebec and vielle to the kamenj, renaissance fiddle, violas da gamba and pardessus de viole. Early life and education Born in Cleveland, Ohio to Communist parents ...

in 1979 to play early European music, American traditional music and crossover fusions of the two, as well as British and Spanish Colonial music. It currently specializes in early music scores to 1920s silent films such as The Mark of Zorro (Spanish Colonial music), Robin Hood (English renaissance music), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French medieval music), The Golem (Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish music), Nosferatu (German medieval and renaissance music), The General (music from the American Civil War) and The Three Musketeers (French renaissance and traditional music.

History

From 1989 to 1996, Hesperus was a resident ensemble at the National Museum of American History. Music from their album '' Early American Roots'' are part of the sound track for the 1999 film '' Sleepy Hollow''. In concert tours sponsored by the

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, Hesperus performed in Brunei, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Panama, as well as touring to Bolivia, Germany and Italy

Discography

*'' Crossing Over (album), Crossing Over'' (1988) *'' Neo-Medieval'' (1997) *''

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'' (1997) *'' Early American Roots'' (1997) *'' Luminous Spirit: Chants of Hildegard von Bingen'' (1998) *'' I Love Lucette'' (1998) *''

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'' (1999) *'' Spain in the New World'' (1999) *'' Baroque Recorder Concerit'' (1999) *''

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'' (2000) *'' Dancing Day'' (2000) *'' The Food of Love'' (2001) *'' My Thing is My Own'' (2001) *'' Colonial America'' (2003) *'' An Early American Quilt'' (2007)

External links

Official site
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