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GEMS is pleased to announce the first of what we expect will be an annual publication of a Season Preview edition of our "Notes on the Scene" Newsletter. Featuring concerts by New York-based ensembles who present their own series, the newsletter will be emailed on Thursday, August 18. If you are not on our email mailing list, click here to receive this valuable guide to the 2016-2017 season.
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"In recent years, Renaissance and Baroque performance in the city has gained momentum, not least through the vigorous advocacy of a group called Gotham Early Music." — Alex Ross, “The New Yorker"
We are grateful for the support we receive from the State, City, and private foundations, and we welcome your help! GEMS continues to receive requests from artists and presenters for services to engage YOU, the music lover, at an increasing rate. We must keep prices affordable for our clients (many of whom are small ensembles or individuals), and that often does not cover our costs, even as a non-profit.
As you know, the classical arts in our culture cannot support themselves. We're grateful for grants from the NYS Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private foundations. But most of our support comes from individuals like you! Please give today.
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Read distinguished New York Times critic James R. Oestreich's article about early opera (and the early music scene in NYC). We're delighted that Mr. Oestreich acknowledged our achievement of a primary mission of GEMS. He wrote: "New York a hotbed of early music? No one would have said so 20 years ago (when some of us were saying the opposite) or even 10 years ago. But a remarkable shift has occurred over the last decade or so, thanks to a web of interlocking factors, including the formation of a curriculum in historical performance at the Juilliard School, the exponential growth of the music program at Trinity Wall Street, the enterprise of groups like Tenet and the Sebastians and the work of the service organization Gotham Early Music Scene." We're also pleased that ALL the groups/institutions he mentioned are also clients of GEMS, depending on us for one or more of our services in marketing, publicity, logistics, communications, fiscal sponsorship, etc.
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Featured Events Of unusual interest or exceptional quality...
he 4x4 baroque Music Festival returns for its 8thyear with a quartet of hour-long concerts to close out the summer. September 6, 7, 9, and 10 All concerts at 7pm.
These concerts bring together some of New York’s best early music specialists under the artistic direction of Avi Stein, Associate organist and Chorusmaster at Trinity Church Wall Street and faculty member of the Juilliard School. Performers include Juilliard faculty, Robert Mealy and Gonzalo Ruiz, as well as luminaries of New York’s thriving early music scene: Ezra Seltzer, Beth Wenstrom, Priscilla Herreid and vocal stars – Sherezade Panthaki, Tyler Duncan, and Jesse Blumberg.
All concerts take place at Trinity Church Wall Street with limited seating in the chancel to create an intimate environment for this beautiful chamber music. FREE seating in the pews (limited view).
The BBC produced two program(me)s about New York City’s burgeoning early music community. GEMS Executive Director Gene Murrow was interviewed at the start to “set the scene,” followed by interviews with several early music directors in the City, including Julian Wachner at Trinity Wall Street, Robert Mealy at Juilliard and Quicksilver Baroque, Gwen Toth and Dongsok Shin of REBEL and ARTEK, Jolle Greenleaf of TENET, Wen Yang of New York Baroque Incorporated, and Jeffrey Grossman of The Sebastians. There are also several musical examples to enjoy!.
GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE (GEMS) is an organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of early music in New York City. It serves professional and amateur performers and ensembles, presenters, audiences and enthusiasts. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote that GEMS will bring "cohesiveness and vitality to the city's patchwork of early-music groups."
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GEMS services and programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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