By Márcio Bezerra Seraphic Fire, South Florida’s preeminent vocal ensemble, started its 23rd season this past week with a program billed as “The Best of Seraphic Fire.” Its performance on Sunday, Oct. 12, at Boca Raton’s St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church provided the audience with some old-time favorites performed with the usual technical accuracy and refined musicianship … [Read more...]
Seraphic Fire gives 12th-century mystic the respect she deserves
Posthumous fame came very late for the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, but her rediscovery in the late 20th century some 800 years after she died has been a salutary achievement for the appreciation of early music and the music of women composers. That isn’t to say that Hildegard’s idiom, which consists of her own special style of plainchant, blends smoothly into the … [Read more...]