Les Délices is pleased to announce the release of eleven new episodes of its free community program LD Music Meditations in collaboration with Literary Cleveland. Featuring sixteen new poems by seven Ohio poets, these new episodes will be released in...
In the same way that 21st-century music lovers might display their CD collection, more than 500 years ago, Isabella d’Este inlaid her favorite music in her wall. That piece — Johannes Ockeghem’s Prenez sur moi — kicked off Les Délices’s recent program “Isabella’s...
A Meditation on Love featuring "Poppies" by Elsa Johnson with music by François Couperin (Sicilienne in g minor from Concert no. 7)....
Featuring the poem Common Ground by Laura Grace Weldon, read by Leon Bibb. The music is by an anonymous composer from around 1400. This textless piece has the title Andray Soulet. Performed here by replicas of Medieval instruments: recorder, plectrum...
Featuring the poem Stars by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) read by Leon Bibb. Music by Fran├ºois Couperin: Sarabande La Noble fierté from Neuvi├¿me Concert Il ritratto dell'amore (arr. Nagy)....
Featuring the poem Beach Glass by John Gabel, read by Leon Bibb. Music by François Chauvon....
Featuring poetry by Diane Kendig, Writ in Water, read by Leon Bibb with music by Henry Purcell....
Featuring poetry by Kathleen Cerveny: Forsythia read by Leon Bibb. Music by Fran├ºois Couperin: La Vivacité from his Neuvi├¿me Concert....
Featuring poetry by Laura Grace Weldon: Self-defined and music by François Couperin: Prelude in C (live performance by Mark Edwards, harpsichord)...
“The series came together as an idea in early May,” said Nagy, who studied at Oberlin before receiving a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, “because I was trying to think how I could create a sort of pivot programming...