Critics and audiences LOVED Les Délices' new Baroque-Jazz Crossover program "Songs without Words." Premiered in October 2016 in Cleveland, Les Délices will bring the program to Boston in April 2017 and record it for their 4th CD in September. Watch...
Now entering their 8th Season, Les Délices is looking forward to shaking things up with some significant departures from the ensemble’s core Baroque repertory in the coming year. Known for their creative, original programming, Les Délices (pronounced Lay day-lease) has...
Do you ever wonder what happens in a musical rehearsal? Or how to dance a minuet? What about the difference between a piano and harpsichord? Les Délices is excited to announce plans for their expanded community outreach initiatives during the 2016-2017...
"One of the many delights of Les Délices is that the music it plays, though chronologically old, always feels new. These are pieces — and often composers — that we haven’t heard before, thanks to music director Debra Nagy’s unflagging...
Finding ways to circumvent rules has always been a popular pastime. It has also often inspired creative genius. When Louis XIV put a stranglehold on entertainments such as opera and theater by enforcing rules designed to secure official monopolies, non-court...
Do you ever wonder what happens in a musical rehearsal? Or how to dance a minuet? What about the difference between a piano and harpsichord? Visitors and residents of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood will have the opportunity to have these, and...
ClevelandClassical.com's Mike Telin spoke with Shannon Mercer in anticipation of her debut with Les Délices for Folly of Youth: “As an audience member, I can tell if a performer is or is not connecting to the text,” said Mercer. “And composers...
Thematically cohesive and stocked with immaculate performances, the brief program did more than just relate the legends of Icarus and Phaeton and how they were doomed by their ambitions. It reminded listeners of the ongoing success that Les Delices represents...
Recitals that feature duo-harpsichordists are rare enough treats, but the program of French baroque music that Michael Sponseller and Jacob Street played on Les Délices’ series at The Galleries at Cleveland State University on Saturday evening, January 16, was an...
By MARK SATOLA SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The intricate web of sound that can be achieved when two harpsichords combine was on display Sunday afternoon at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights, when harpsichordists Michael Sponseller and Jacob Street performed a program...