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Bryn
Mawr Renaissance choir debuts director’s first program

Spring Concert
Features Little-Known Female Composer, Aeneid Settings

BRYN MAWR,
PA – The Bryn Mawr Renaissance
Choir is debuting the first program designed by its new music director, John
Andrew Bailey, in its spring concert on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm in
the Thomas Great Hall of Bryn Mawr College. 
Free and open to the public, the performance features a number of rarely
performed selections, including a five-voice motet by little-known woman
composer Raeffela Aleotti, as well as diverse settings of text from Virgil’s
Aeneid by Jacob Arcadelt, Josquin Desprez and Adrian Willaert.

The 28-voice chamber group specializes in singing sacred and
secular gems composed between 1300 and 1600 during the European Renaissance
era.  Singing without instrumental
accompaniment, the a cappella group will also perform works by English
Renaissance greats William Byrd and Richard Farrant as well as the Italian
master Orlando Lassus.

About John Bailey

Recently appointed music director of the Bryn Mawr
Renaissance Choir, Bailey is a long-time faculty member of the Amherst Early
Music Festival and is completing his PhD in musicology at the University of Pennsylvania.  An accomplished harpsichordist, he has appeared
as a concerto soloist with baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare and the
Philadelphia Bach Festival series as well as in recitals with noted soprano
Julianne Baird.  He also serves as
organist at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, teaches in the Intellectual
Heritage program at Temple University, and accompanies the Chorale and Chamber
Singers of Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Colleges. 

More Than Five Decades for the Bryn
Mawr Renaissance Choir

Based in the cathedral-like Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr
College, the Renaissance
Choir is beginning its 51st season of continuous music-making.  Following its very first concert on Nov. 1,
1963, the vocal chamber group has been performing several concerts annually for
more than five decades.  Comprised of
students and professors from nearby colleges as well as experienced singers
from surrounding communities, the Bryn Mawr Renaissance Choir is supported by
the Ted Handy Fund for the Support of Renaissance Music.  Contributions can be made through Dianne
Johnson, director of gift planning in the development office of Bryn Mawr
College.

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