If your chanson hit the Parisian publishing houses in the 1530s, it could go TikTok-viral. Located near the Sorbonne in Paris, Pierre Attaingnant’s (1492-1553) publishing house disseminated works by sixteenth-century household names including Josquin, Sermisy, Gervaise, and Janequin. Attaingnant mastered a new technology that made printing faster and more profitable: single impression printing. He was named the official “imprimeur et libraire du Roy en musique” (printer and bookseller of the King for music). Join us as we perform music from Attaingnant’s collections on our menagerie of Renaissance wind instruments: recorders, shawms, dulcians, tabor pipe, and string drum.

If your chanson hit the Parisian publishing houses in the 1530s, it could go TikTok-viral. Located near the Sorbonne in Paris, Pierre Attaingnant’s (1492-1553) publishing house disseminated works by sixteenth-century household names including Josquin, Sermisy, Gervaise, and Janequin. Attaingnant mastered a new technology that made printing faster and more profitable: single impression printing. He was named the official “imprimeur et libraire du Roy en musique” (printer and bookseller of the King for music). Join us as we perform music from Attaingnant’s collections on our menagerie of Renaissance wind instruments: recorders, shawms, dulcians, tabor pipe, and string drum.

7:15pm | Pre-Concert Discussion with Renaissance music scholar Giovanni Zanovello and member of Forgotten Clefs, multi-instrumentalist C. Keith Collins

Exploring Spanish and Sephardic music over a 400-year span, Surviving Inquisition traces the journey of Sephardic Jews from the 13th century in Alfonso el Sabio’s Castile, through the early years of the Inquisition in late 15th century Catholic Spain, to Italy in the early 17th century, where many Jews lived following expulsion. Using European and Arabic instruments, Surviving Inquisition intertwines traditional Sephardic tunes with Catholic music from Medieval manuscripts; sets music of the likely converso Juan del Encina (1468-1530) alongside that of the Spanish Catholics Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523) and Christobal de Morales (1500-1553); and moves between secular Italian songs and sacred Hebrew psalms in music of the Jewish composer Salamone Rossi (1570-1630), living in diaspora in early 17th-century Mantua, Italy.

FAR Center for Contemporary Arts
505 W. 4th Street

Livestreamed at www.BLEMF.org

SPONSORED BY PAUL BORG

CO-SPONSORED BY THE LOU AND SYBIL MERVIS CHAIR IN THE STUDY OF JEWISH CULTURE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY

and THE PEARL SCHWARTZ PROGRAM IN JEWISH CULTURE AND THE ARTS FUND of the ROBERT A. AND SANDRA S. BORNS JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM, INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Welcome to Ferrara, where our musical feast is preceded by prayer and reflection from Corpus Domini and San Vito convents with music by nuns Leonora d’Este and Raffaela Aleotti. Shawm and sackbuts serve up the main course, celebrating 300 years of Estensi rule in the Duchy of Ferrara.

Nashville United Methodist Church, Nashville, Indiana | Free Event | $25 recommended donation

Welcome to Ferrara, where our musical feast is preceded by prayer and reflection from Corpus Domini and San Vito convents with music by nuns Leonora d’Este and Raffaela Aleotti. Shawm and sackbuts serve up the main course, celebrating 300 years of Estensi rule in the Duchy of Ferrara.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, Indiana | Free Event | $25 recommended donation

Come enjoy Renaissance motets, chorales, and anthems based on texts from Isaiah, Luke, Matthew, and others as we look towards the Advent season. Composers such as Hassler, Morales, Aleotti, and Weelkes will help Forgotten Clefs tell the age-old story. You will be transported to an animal-crowded manger setting by crumhorns, shawms, and recorders in a suite of piva dances!

Join Forgotten Clefs for a live performance of The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker, told through music and dance. Highlighting the story’s themes of friendship, courage, and diversity, the Forgotten Clefs use Renaissance instruments like the sackbut, dulcian and crumhorns to bring the tale to life.

All ages are welcome | Free

Come enjoy Renaissance motets, chorales, and anthems based on texts from Isaiah, Luke, Matthew, and others as we look towards the Advent season. Composers such as Hassler, Morales, Aleotti, and Weelkes will help Forgotten Clefs tell the age-old story. You will be transported to an animal-crowded manger setting by crumhorns, shawms, and recorders in a suite of piva dances!

Free Event | Recommended donation: $25

Join Forgotten Clefs for a live performance of The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker, told through music and dance. Highlighting the story’s themes of friendship, courage, and diversity, the Forgotten Clefs use Renaissance instruments like the sackbut, dulcian and crumhorns to bring the tale to life.

All ages are welcome · Registration is requested, walk-ups welcome as space allows.

Join us as we team up with the Schola Cantorum of Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, PA for a celebration of the music of William Byrd!

Together we will perform motets and instrumental works by Byrd, in observance of the 400th anniversary of his death.

Free event.

More information here: http://bit.ly/3F88mzP

The second concert of BLEMF's Lilly Library Guatemalan Manuscript Project will be presented by Forgotten Clefs Renaissance Wind Band. Join us for an evening of wind band music recorded at the Monroe County History Center.

Friday, May 13 | 8pm YouTube Premiere

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic BLEMF presented a virtual offering in lieu of its typical in-person events. Forgotten Clefs was featured with videos from past programming.