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Join Callisto Ascending — Katharine Dain, Laurie Rubin, Jessica Powell, and Jeffrey Grossman — and special guests Rachel Begley (baroque bassoon and recorder) and Anna Griffis (violin) for three upcoming performances:
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Secular cantatas for one and two voices by Telemann and A. Scarlatti
When: Tuesday, June 2nd, 8:00pm
Where: Recital Hall, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, NY (directions)
Admission: FREE
When: Friday, June 5th, 8:00pm
Where: Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York, NY (map)
Admission: $20 ($10 students, seniors, VdGSA and EMA members)
Come hear this program on the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert Series!
When: Monday, June 8, 3:00pm
Where: First Church In Boston, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA (map)
Admission: $20 ($10 students, seniors, BEMF pass holders, VdGSA, BEMF pass, and EMA members
Hope to see you at one of these upcoming events!
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Callisto Ascending is devoted to the vibrant exploration of the familiar and forgotten chamber music repertoire for period instruments and voices. The group has given concerts and master classes at venues including the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the Staller Center for the Arts at SUNY Stony Brook, and Second Presbyterian Church and the Church of St. Edward the Martyr in New York.
Callisto Ascending was recently awarded its first grant, from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, to support an artist residency in autumn 2008 with the New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir.
We recently received our first press mention, in The New York Times's review of our appearance in Gotham Early Music Scene's Times Center Showcase. Of our well-received set, Allan Kozinn wrote: "Callisto Ascending devoted its set to works celebrating the Virgin, most notably a lovely account of Purcell’s 'Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel,' in a passionate, almost operatic reading by Katharine Dain, the soprano. In another Purcell work, 'O dive custos,' as well as in Couperin’s 'Regina coeli laetare,' and a 17th-century oddity, 'O quam bonus es,' by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Ms. Dain and Laur[ie] Rubin, a mezzo-soprano, blended comfortably and projected with clarity and the kind of shaping that seemed rooted in the emotional currents of the texts."
