The Newberry Consort, an early-music, original-instrument chamber ensemble affiliated with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, is directed by David Douglass, Newberry Musician-in-Residence. It brings early music to the general public through performances, recordings, and related educational activities. The Consort draws on the Library's holdings in music dating back to the thirteenth century, using original sources and scholarly editions as bases for its performances.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
Call the Consort at (312) 255-3610 to purchase tickets.
8:00 p.m. Friday, October 30, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 31, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 1, Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston. Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m.
In conjunction with an exhibition coming to the Newberry Library from the Library of Congress, With Malice toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, we present rarely-heard music from 1860s America: popular songs, minstrel music, and country music, as well as the spectacular art music of America's first bona fide virtuosos, Louis Gottschalk and William Morris. The program of stories, songs, and minstrel comic acts will bring Lincoln's America to life.s
8:00 p.m. Friday, March 19, Blair Hall, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 20, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. Sunday, March 21, Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston. Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m.
Hear the premier collaboration of the internationally acclaimed artists and Chicago celebrities David Douglass, Rachel Barton-Pine, and David Schrader in a program of virtuosic music for violins and harpsichord. The violinists and composers Biagio Marini, Marco Uccelini, and Giovanni Fontana were just a few of the superstars of the 17th century who brought audiences to their feet with displays of musical fireworks and heartfelt emotion.
8:00 p.m. Friday, April 23, Lutkin Hall, Evanston. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 24, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 25, Blair Hall, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Pre-concert lecture at 6:00 p.m.
Our second annual Howard Mayer Brown Memorial concert features the Newberry Consort of Viols, along with the Newberry Consort Singers. No Elizabethan composer is more revered than William Byrd, who labored to preserve his art at a time of tremendous adversity. He earned the favor and protection of Queen Elizabeth I, as he earns our admiration and respect so many centuries later, by composing music of thrilling invention and compelling beauty. Howard Mayer Brown, an avid amateur viol player, particularly enjoyed Byrd's music, and we honor his memory in a program of Howard's favorites played on instruments from his collection.
8:00 p.m. Friday, February 19, Blair Hall, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
The Newberry Consort's second annual Emerging Artists Concert features Northwestern University's Baroque Music Ensemble in a colorful concert of vocal and instrumental chamber music composed by the brilliant 17th-century composer Heinrich Ignaz Biber.
7:00 p.m. Saturday, February 20, Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
In conjunction with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies' Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Newberry Consort director David Douglass, along with soprano Ellen Hargis, harpsichordist David Schrader, and viola da gambist Craig Trompeter will present a special program on how people coped with illness through the power of music, from the depths of melancholy to a comic depiction of a gall bladder operation.
Noon Saturday, April 24, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
A special offering by the Newberry Consort for the first Chicago Early Music Festival, our early movie with early music was a smash hit as our benefit concert last season. This time around soprano Ellen Hargis joins the Newberry Consort of Viols as they accompany the classic feature film with Sarah Bernhardt as Elizabeth I.
Includes all Series Concerts and all Special Events. Children 16 years old or under attend free with a subscription holder.
Includes all three Series Concerts. Children 16 years old or under attend free with a subscription holder.
Call the Consort at (312) 255-3610 to purchase tickets.
The Consort's new web site will be operational soon; check back at www.newberryconsort.org.
