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Black Tulip & the Delights of Arcadia on Harmonia Uncut, March 30, 2020

Black Tulip & the Delights of Arcadia

Hosted by Wendy Gillespie, Black Tulip was featured on WFIU Harmonia’s podcast Harmonia Uncut on March 30, 2020. The podcast featured Handel’s Pensieri notturni di Filli from a June 2018 program for the Chicago’s Musicians Club of Women at the Buchanan Chapel in Fourth Presbyterian Church’s Genevieve and Wayne Gratz Center.

For more information on Harmonia Uncut,  visit https://indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia/black-tulip-and-the-delights-of-arcadia.php. For more information on Black Tulip, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BlackTulipEarlyMusic & on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlackTulipEM.

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Black Tulip Performs on Live from WFMT, November 25, 2019

Black Tulip's Women & Power

 

Women & Power

Black Tulip presents ‘Women & Power’ November 25th 2019 on Live from WFMT at WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio at the Renée Crown Public Media Center. ‘Women & Power’ is a new program focusing on heroines of the ancient world, both mythological and semi-historical. You’ll hear Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Lucretia Romana,” the intense cantata depicting a Roman noblewoman whose rape and subsequent suicide led to tyranny’s overthrow; “Judith,” Sebastian Brossard’s cantata about the biblical heroine; and a portrait of the Greek Poetess Sappho by English composer John Blow. Add in dazzling instrumental music by Dietrich Buxtehude, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Charles Mouton, and others, and you have an epic program. Black Tulip is a multinational ensemble featuring Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano (the Netherlands), Mirja Lorenz, recorders (Germany), Phillip W. Serna, violas da gamba (US), and Joel Spears, lute and theorbo (US).

For more information on Live from WFMT,  visit https://www.wfmt.com/2019/11/25/black-tulip-3/. For more information on Black Tulip, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BlackTulipEarlyMusic & on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlackTulipEM.

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Stream Black Tulip’s Program for Chicago’s Musicians Club of Women​ at Fourth Presbyterian Church’s Buchanan Chapel, June 1, 2018

Black Tulip

On June 1st 2018, Black Tulip presented a special program for Chicago’s Musicians Club of Women​ in the beautiful Buchanan Chapel in Fourth Presbyterian Church’s Genevieve and Wayne Gratz Center. Black Tulip’s Josefien Stoppelenburg, Mirja Lorenz, Phillip W. Serna & Joel Spears performed dramatic cantatas and songs for solo voice and obbligato instruments alongside virtuosic instrumental works for recorders, viols, and theorbo by Alessandro Scarlatti, Tarquinio Merula, Barbara Strozzi, Julie Pinel and George Frideric Handel.

The concert was engineered by Tom Haigh and organized by Chris Norton, Music Coordinator at Fourth Presbyterian Church. For more information on Chicago’s Musicians Club of Women​ & Fourth Presbyterian Church’s free noontime concert series, visit http://www.musiciansclubofwomen.org/ & http://www.fourthchurch.org/concerts/. For more information on Black Tulip, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BlackTulipEarlyMusic & on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlackTulipEM.

Black Tulip at Buchanan Chapel, June 1, 2018

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Black Tulip Performs on Live from WFMT, May 1, 2017

Black Tulip

Tulipmania -Music, Art, Politics, and Society in the Dutch Golden Age

Black Tulip presents ‘Tulipmania’ May 1st 2017 on Live from WFMT at WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio at the Renée Crown Public Media Center. Tulipmania looks at the cultural and political events during the peak of Dutch power during the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Dutch protestant north was a bastion of religious tolerance and personal freedom, while the rest of the continent was embroiled in civil wars, and the disastrous 30-Year’s War. The new-found prosperity of this emerging capitalist society encouraged the development of the arts, and provided a large and receptive market for the musical and artistic productions of other countries as well. Experience music of native composers as well as foreign composers who were well known is the Low Countries. Tulipmania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.

For more information on Live from WFMT, visit http://blogs.wfmt.com/livefromwfmt/2017/05/01/black-tulip/. For more information on Black Tulip, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BlackTulipEarlyMusic & on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlackTulipEM.

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Black Tulip Performs on on Live from WFMT, May 11, 2015

Black TulipLet Us Howl!

Black Tulip presents ‘Let Us Howl!’ May 11th, 2015 on Live from WFMT at WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio in an exciting and virtuosic program of works by Bartoloméo da Selma y Salaverde, Carolus Hacquart, George Frideric Handel, Robert Johnson, Nicola Matteis, Henry Purcell, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Antonio Vivaldi!

For more information on Live from WFMT, visit http://blogs.wfmt.com/livefromwfmt/2015/05/11/joel-spears-lute-et-al-with-soprano-in-a-baroque-program/. For more information on Black Tulip, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BlackTulipEarlyMusic & on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlackTulipEM