Scott Metcalfe

Concert Review: Blue Heron Does “Christmas in Medieval England” Right

December 29, 2023
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In this performance, Blue Heron conveyed enough merriment for Christmastime and beyond.

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Listening During Covid, Part 14: Pleasures and Treasures

December 30, 2022
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Music of Machaut, the teenaged Mozart, and three vibrant American composers, plus a remarkable book about Charles Ives and his works.

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Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron

February 1, 2016
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I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.

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Concert Review: Genius Finally Getting its Proper Due — Blue Heron’s “Ockeghem@600”

February 27, 2015
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The first in what is surely going to be Blue Heron’s memorable series of testaments to the neglected brilliance of composer Johannes Ockeghem.

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Fuse Concert Review: The Calming Artistry of Blue Heron

October 20, 2014
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Simply put, Blue Heron is one of the best perks of concertgoing in 21st century Boston.

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Fuse Concert Review: Blue Heron, A Superbly Classy Renaissance Choir

December 26, 2013
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Blue Heron explores a rarely performed repertoire with a choir made up of sensational soloists.

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Classical Music Review: Green Mountain Project — Monteverdi at his most Audacious

January 8, 2013
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Green Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.

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Classical Music Review: The Sound of Blue Heron — Pleasure Aplenty

December 24, 2012
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Several merits distinguish Blue Heron’s concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.

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Concert Review: The Song of Songs and Songs of Love in Sixteenth-century Spain

June 11, 2012
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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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