For her first published collection of cantatas, composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) eschewed the traditional subjects of nymphs, goddesses, and trickster gods from Greco-Roman mythology. Instead, she took stories from the Old Testament, focusing almost exclusively on...
"Les Delices, a Cleveland-based early music ensemble, is celebrating Women's History Month with two special online programs. First will be the premiere concert "Women in Music" at 7:30 p.m. Monday,, featuring Bay-area soprano Michele Kennedy. The program, produced remotely with Les...
"Both the music and the history of women composers are very much underexplored. So it’s fitting that Les Délices will begin its celebration of Women’s History Month with a new entry in their SalonEra series of performances and conversations —...
"Les Délices, Cleveland’s French Baroque ensemble, continues its all-online subscription series on Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 pm with “Women of Genius,” featuring soprano Clara Rottsolk in music and poetry by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Mme. Duval, Julie Pinel, élisabeth Jacquet de...
In honor of Women’s History Month, Les Délices presents Women of Genius, a program highlighting the contributions of remarkably accomplished, creative women in 17th and 18th century France. While harpsichordist and composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre is often upheld...
"CLEVELAND, Ohio ÔÇô The Cleveland Orchestra may be the biggest, but it isn’t the only local player in the pandemic concert streaming game. Organizations of all sizes have jumped into the digital fray. They’ve done more than just enter it, too....
"When Debra Nagy made the decision to reinvent her French Baroque ensemble Les Délices as a production company — whose interface with its subscribers would take the form of high-quality videos in the place of live concerts during the pandemic...
There’s no shortage of fun in our upcoming program Games & Grounds, which features musical versions of Aesop’s timeless fables performed by tenor Jason McStoots and soprano Elena Mullins interspersed with virtuosic ground bass variations by Jean-Féry Rebel, Marin Marais,...
Les Délices' next virtual concert series release, Games & Grounds (available on-demand Feb. 18-Mar. 1), is a potpourri of through-composed fantasias, brilliant ground bass variations, musical versions of Aesop’s timeless fables, and baroque dance. Featured soprano and dancer Elena Mullins...
"Art often transcends without trying, remaining rooted in its specific regional, topical, or historical niche yet appealing well beyond. A humble central-German cantor became Bach, an observer of social posturing in a narrow slice of the gentry became Austen, an...