Zeitgeist's upcoming Early Inspirations concerts feature new works influenced by music of the Renaissance and Baroque, including Justin Rubin's "The armed man should be feared... and other lessons from the Renaissance." Justin steps in as a guest blogger to tell us more about the piece.


I was always perplexed why certain songs from the Renaissance became so incredibly popular – they became the source musical ideas for enormous Masses by leading composers hundreds of miles and decades apart,...
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Zeitgeist's upcoming Early Inspirations concert features new works influenced by music of the Renaissance and Baroque, including Scott Miller's "Consortia." Scott steps in as a guest blogger to tell us more about the piece.


Consortia is a revised version of an earlier work, Consortium, adapted for ensembles of any size or instrumentation. It is the result of work that never made it into the multimedia chamber opera The Cosmic Engine. The electroacoustic background structure and live improvisa...
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Zeitgeist's upcoming "Early Inspirations" concerts feature new works influenced by music of the Renaissance and Baroque, including James Holdman's "A Gondola Evades Us." James steps in as a guest blogger to tell us more about the piece.


A Gondola Evades Us is based on "Moro, lasso, al mio duolo" from Carlo Gesualdo's Book of Madrigals No. 6 (1611). The unusual opening chord sequence of "Moro, lasso," drives the harmonic structure of this piece composed for piano and percussion. Gesualdo*, an ...
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We spoke with baritone saxophonist Angela Wyatt of the ANCIA Saxophone Quartet to hear more about the music the group will perform in concert on May 4, 7:30 p.m. at Studio Z.


How did you decide which works to program on this concert at Studio Z?

We knew that Studio Z patrons would enjoy a contemporary program, so we were eager to program some of our newer repertoire. Jeff Herriott's piece as night descends, the waters beckon was written for us several years ago and we are pleased to be perfor...
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