Blue Heron
A fractured childhood remembered through a lens of distance and grief
In this performance, Blue Heron conveyed enough merriment for Christmastime and beyond.
Music of Machaut, the teenaged Mozart, and three vibrant American composers, plus a remarkable book about Charles Ives and his works.
“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”
The first in what is surely going to be Blue Heron’s memorable series of testaments to the neglected brilliance of composer Johannes Ockeghem.
Simply put, Blue Heron is one of the best perks of concertgoing in 21st century Boston.
Several merits distinguish Blue Heron’s concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.
The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with “a marvelously expansive concept of the divine” in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.
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