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Challenge Grant
The list of donors to our successful challenge grant matching fund may be found here. Heartfelt thanks to all of you!
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Drew Minter's brand new CD is now available in our CD Store!
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- Our online CD Store has recordings from nine New York ensembles and artists: Asteria, East of the River, Drew Minter, New York Consort of Viols, Parthenia, Pomerium, Repast, Nina Stern and Trefoil.
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GEMS and many of New York's early music vocal ensembles are featured on WQXR's program "The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle" broadcast on Sunday, September 25. Click below to listen to the entire program, including performances by Anonymous4, EM/NY, ARTEK, Green Mountain Project, Pomerium, Lionheart, My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, and an interview with GEMS Executive Director Gene Murrow.
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- Please visit our page with information about access for people with disabilities to the early music venues in New York City. We are updating this page regularly; please email us if you have updates or suggestions.
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- Help us keep our master list of links to the numerous organizations that comprise New York City's vibrant early music scene up to date. Email us with links to add or updates on existing links. Thanks!
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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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Latest Update
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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GEMS is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
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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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Featured Events
Of unusual interest or exceptional quality...
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| Anssi Karttunen |
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| Karl Benedict fortepiano |
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The Art of the Early Keyboard Series presents
BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT
Gwendolyn Toth, fortepiano
with
Anssi Karttunen (Finland), cello
Peter Becker, baritone
Michael Brown, tenor
Lieder and chamber music, including Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in G minor and song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte.
Thursday, January 26 at 8 pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th Street at Lexington Avenue
Manhattan
Tickets:
$25 ~ General Admission
$15 ~ Students & Seniors
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Salon/Sanctuary Concerts presents
LA SERENISSIMA:
Music of Venice and Her Others
Jessica Gould, soprano; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Bradley Brookshire, organ
The Rose of The Compass Ensemble
Nina Stern, recorders & chalumeau; Ara Dinkjian, oud; Glen Velez, percussion
Motets of Strozzi, Rigatti, Cavalli, and Monteverdi performed in alteration with music of the Turkish, Armenian, and Dalmatian communities offer a window onto the Venetian mosaic.
Sunday, January 29 at 3 pm
The Chapel of St. Bartholomew's
325 Park Avenue (at East 51st Street)
Manhattan
Admission:
$25 ~ General Admission
$15 ~ Students & Seniors
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| Nathaniel Watson |
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A BACH WINTERREISE
The Sinfonia Players
Nathaniel Watson, baritone
Christine Gummere, cello
John Scott, organ
Bass arias and recitatives from various cantatas tracing the soul's journey through life.
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8 pm
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street
between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues
Manhattan
Tickets:
$20 ~ General Admission
$12 ~ Students & Seniors
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