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...
From "Les Délices makes a joyful return to live performance with Of Gods & Heroes" by Stephanie Manning for ClevelandClassical.com "Time and time again, Les Délices has imbued a sense of creativity into the concert experience — particularly over the past...
From "The live return of Les Délices: 'Of Gods & heroes' and a sense of the meta" by Jarrett Hoffman "The next concert from Les Délices is indeed about gods and heroes, built around 14th-century songs referencing characters such as Jason...
Artists, Concert Series, News & Reviews / 17.01.2022
Press Release: Dave Lucas to join Of Gods & Heroes
ACCLAIMED POET DAVE LUCAS JOINS AS NARRATOR FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES OF "OF GODS & HEROES" FEB 25-27, 2022 January 18, 2022, Cleveland, OH - Cleveland chamber ensemble Les Délices announces the addition of acclaimed Cleveland poet Dave Lucas to its...
News & Reviews / 25.12.2019
Lessons in Love Preview
January’s concert, Lessons in Love (click here for tickets and performance information), marks the third time that Les Délices has teamed up with Boston’s Blue Heron to present Medieval music in Cleveland. Late-medieval music is a second specialty for both...
/ 05.11.2019
LD Steps Out: Medieval Explorations
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]LD Steps Out with a free family-friendly performance of medieval music presented at the Cleveland Public Library’s Main Branch. Enjoy strange and wonderful 14th-century music for voices, lute, harp recorders, and...
ZEN PHILOSOPHY RESONATES IN MEDIEVAL MUSIC ABOUT COURTLY LOVE IN JANUARY 2020 CONCERTS BY LES DéLICES “ExcellentÔǪcommendable ease, understanding and expressivenessÔǪfascinating glimpses into a sophisticated musical world that treated its subjects with wit, humor and grace. And more than being merely historically...
/ 26.06.2019
Intoxicating
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Les Délices is inspired by heady perfumes and strong elixirs in this program of strange and wonderful Medieval music from the Ars Subtilior. Singers Elena Mullins and Jason McStoots perform...
/ 20.06.2019
LD@Play Medieval Dance Party
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Join Les Délices for a 45-minute interactive performance about Medieval Music and Dance around the year 1400! We’ll teach you a medieval dance, and introduce instruments like the medieval fiddle, gothic...
/ 19.06.2019
Lessons in Love
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Lessons in Love sees Les Délices return to the world of the Romance of the Rose, where the allegorical character Hope (Esperance) sustains a courtly lover through the thousand pains of...