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Pulling back the curtain

As part of a series of online events taking Newberry Consort audiences “behind the scenes,” I’ll be a featured speaker on March 15, 2021. Join us!

CD cover with a 14th-century illumination of two embracing lovers surrounded by flowers; one holds a falcon, suggesting they're resting from a day of hunting.

Visual consonance

Here’s Anonymous 4’s CD The Second Circle: Love Songs of Francesco Landini. As you’ll recall, Landini is the blind virtuoso and composer most associated with the Italian ars nova. Consider the image on the cover.

Keyboard Extravaganza!

Here’s the latest #NCGreatPerformances video. See my last post for some backstory.

keyboard viscera… for science!

Later this month Charles Metz is slated to give a Zoom talk on historical keyboards for the Newberry Consort, and the next #NCGreatPerformances video is designed as a companion piece.

a sleeper French language resource

This news will be old to many, but I just learned about the Canadian linguistic database, TermiumPlus, that allows for faceted searching that outstrips a simple bilingual dictionary.