by Matt Fey | Apr 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Blue Heron is engaged in a multiyear project performing and recording music from the “Henrican” partbooks at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and it is from these rather obscure scores that the evening’s selections were drawn. The 13-member choir, conducted by artistic director...
by Matt Fey | Apr 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Grace Hauck When I think of Rockefeller Chapel, I think Gothic. I think stone, gargoyles, arches, vaulting, wooden pews, red velvet seats, metal lanterns, and stained glass. I think strength, structure, and command. You can imagine my shock, then, when I walked...
by Matt Fey | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
By John Y. Lawrence James Kallembach led the Rockefeller Chapel Choir and the Decani in a concert titled Sacred Powers of Water, as part of the chapel’s Quire & Place series. The concert, which took place Saturday evening at Rockefeller Chapel, was true to its...
by Matt Fey | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Mary Abowd Kate Pukinskis loves to sing in choirs, to be on stage with others enveloped by the “crazy, loud sounds” of Beethoven’s Ninth or Verdi’s Requiem. “Choral music comes very naturally to me,” said Pukinskis, a doctoral student in composition in the...
by Matt Fey | Feb 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Laura Demanski, AM’94 Seasons is the title of artist Libby Chaney’s fabric installation that currently graces Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (it will be up through March 3). So it was fitting that on February 1, the morning Chaney delivered the sermon at the...