Miller Theatre to Welcome England's The Orlando Consort in A LOVE AFFAIR, 11/16

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 season of its Early Music series with A LOVE AFFAIR featuring THE ORLANDO CONSORT, Saturday, November 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th Street). Tickets: $30-$40 • Students with valid ID: $18-$24. Availble at www.millertheatre.com.

Miller Theatre's "essential" (The New Yorker) Early Music series has been lauded as a leader in New York's burgeoning historical performance scene. This year Miller once again plays host to some of the world's leading early music ensembles and young upstarts alike. Miller favorites Le Poème Harmonique and Stile Antico return, along with locals New York Polyphony. The Orlando Consort celebrates a 25th anniversary of their own at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. The series will also feature world premiere performances of two new commissions, from composers Andrew Smith and Michael Nyman-a first for the series. Nyman's work, written for The Tallis Scholars, celebrates both Miller's milestone anniversary and The Tallis Scholars' 40th year.

It's been 25 years since The Orlando Consort first began sharing their love of medieval and Renaissance repertoire with audiences around the globe. Miller raises a glass to these ambassadors of early music with a program focused on Machaut's extraordinary Le voir dit, the improbable (and possibly autobiographical) love story of an aging poet and his young admirer, widely considered one of the great works of the Middle Ages. In the second half of the program, the quartet traverses other favorites from their repertoire, including works by Dufay, Ockeghem, and Josquin.

PROGRAM:
Guillaume de Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit
Dunstaple: Descendi in ortum meum
Dufay: Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
Ockeghem: Ave Maria
Compère: Ave Maria
Brumel: Sicut lilium
Josquin: O bone et dulcis Domine Jesus
Josquin: In te Domine speravi
Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi
Gombert: Quam pulchra es

ARTISTS:
The Orlando Consort
Matthew Venner, counter tenor
Mark Dobell, tenor
AnGus Smith, tenor
Donald Greig, baritone