Continuing with our ongoing exploration of multiple centuries of music, Early Music Princeton (EMP) honors Firestone Library’s exhibit “In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison,” with a tribute to Shakespeare. Vocal and instrumental works featuring the bard’s texts and composers he may have listened to, as well as those that may have passed him by, EMP presents music by Holborne, Dowland, Percy, Weelkes, Morley, Telemann (a programmatic nod to Cervantes and “Don Quixote”), and more…
Early Music Princeton’s end of the year celebration of music spanning four centuries, performed by the EMP Viol Consort, Vocal Ensemble, and Chamber Ensemble.
Outdoors on the Frist Lawn, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) teams up with Early Music Princeton to form EMPLOrk, presenting a free concert that combines new works for live electronics with fresh electronic arrangements of music written in the 14th-17th centuries. Pieces by Gillaume de Machaut and Barbara Strozzi get a wild new treatment with custom-designed instruments from the New Instrument Research Lab. Piping-hot pieces by graduate student composers Jenny Beck, Gulli Björnsson, Liam Elliot, and Soo Yeon Lyuh, and undergraduate composer Lola Constantino round out the program with pitch-shifted ukeleles, spectrally-exploded harmonium, networked cellphones, homemade audio circuit feedback, and electronically-modified haegum (a traditional Korean bowed string instrument). The afternoon concert will be informal and you may come and go as you please.
Early Music Princeton presents an evening of music spanning seven centuries, performed by the EMP Viol Consort, EMP Chamber Players, and the EMP Singers.
Free, Unticketed.
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (“PLOrk”), Chamber Choir, Glee Club, and Early Music Princeton join forces to perform a program juxtaposing music from the Renaissance with contemporary compositions written by Princeton University undergraduate and graduate students combining instrumental, vocal, and electronic music.
Free, Unticketed. Attendees must present photo ID and proof of COVID vaccination + booster (if eligible), and be masked at all times.