BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1171189:Event:88925 DTSTAMP:20260421T200726Z SUMMARY:The Loire Valley Chansonniers: French Secular Music ca. 1500 – Quilisma Consort at Loring-Greenough House DESCRIPTION: In the late 1400s, central France was home to many of th e brightest and best composers in Europe, a generation that played a m ajor role in shaping the newly emerging Renaissance style. Many of the ir secular polyphonic works are preserved in a group of manuscripts th at were copied in the Loire Valley region around 1470. Join the Quilis ma Consort for an exploration of the composers recorded in the books k nown as The Loire Valley Channoniers, performed on reproductions of Re naissance-era recorders, on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. at th e historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain. Aft ernoon tea follows the programThe Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “mus ical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House on the first and third Sundays of each month, October through May. Tickets are availab le at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or e mail lghouseconcerts@aim.com.A Renaissance instrumental ensemble, the Quilisma Consort are Lisa Gay (director), Melika M. Fitzhugh, and Caro lyn Jean Smith. They have been exploring the beautiful music of the Mi ddle Ages and Renaissance together since 2004. The Quilisma Consort ha s been featured in the concert series of MIT Chapel, King's Chapel, th e Boston Recorder Society, and the Loring-Greenough House. For more in formation, see www.quilisma.us.Melika M. Fitzhugh (recorders, vihuela, guitar, viola) is a long-standing member of the world music ensemble Urban Myth where she plays many instruments including fiddle, bass, an d percussion. She came to the Quilisma Consort to focus on early music . She has a degree in music composition from Harvard University.Lisa G ay (recorders, harp, voice) founded the Quilisma Consort in 2004 to sa tisfy her addiction to early music. An avid recorder player and fan of Orlando de Lasso since childhood, she has performed in The Christmas Revels in Cambridge and Chicago, and with ensembles such as Calliope, The Masqued Phoenix Consort, and Ars et Amici. She studies recorder wi th John Tyson.Carolyn Jean Smith (recorders, vihuela) received an MA i n Early Music from the Longy School. She has performed with Stämbande t, Serendipity, and Cantata á Trois and has studied with Ford Weisber g, Sonja Lindblad, and John Tyson. She has performed in several venues , including the Society for Historically Informed Performance Concert Series, and can be heard on Nordic Voices, a CD by Stämbandet under t he Nordic Sounds label.Built in 1760, the Loring-Greenough House, a lo cal landmark listed on the Massachusetts and National Registers of His toric Places, is located at 12 South Street (at the Civil War Monument ) in Jamaica Plain, MA. It is owned and managed by the non-profit Jama ica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. as a historic house museum and site for a rt and music presentations. The Loring-Greenough House is wheelchair a ccessible. For more information on the Loring-Greenough House, see www .loring-greenough.org.For reservations or directions, call (617)524-31 58, or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com,\n\nFor more information visit ht tp://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/the-loire-valley-chansonniers-fr ench-secular-music-ca-1500 DTSTART:20120422T190000Z DTEND:20120422T230000Z CATEGORIES:parlor, concert, and, tea LOCATION:Loring-Greenough House, WEBSITE:http://www.Loring-Greenough.org URL:http://www.Loring-Greenough.org CONTACT:617-524-3158 ORGANIZER;CN="Loring-Greenough House Concerts":http://neighborsforneig hbors.org/profile/LoringGreenoughHouseConserts ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2245138318?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Loring-G reenough House Concerts":http://neighborsforneighbors.org/profile/Lori ngGreenoughHouseConserts END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR