2/24/10
Plain Dealer Reviews Feb 21st concert at Plymouth Church
by Don Rosenberg
Les Delices, a Cleveland-based early-music ensemble that performs music of the French Baroque, devoted its program over the weekend to works by composers saluting peers and figures that influenced them. Theme aside, the group’s concert Sunday at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights, where the musicians recently became artists in residence, was a beguiling experience.
The period-instrument ensemble’s name couldn’t be more apt for the music and the interpretive vitality that the players bring to their repertoire: The Delights. Indeed, director and Baroque oboist Debra Nagy and her colleagues are models of suave phrasing and rhythmic purpose as they explore Gallic delicacies.
Read the entire review
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2/22/10
Les Délices Gallery Concert at T&Co. Reviewed by Cleveland Classical
Read the review (scroll down).
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2/17/10
Interview with Bernard Gordillo for NPR Harmonia's Blog:
One of North America’s top baroque oboists, Debra Nagy is a multi-faceted musician who specializes in a number of early woodwinds – and as a vocalist.
I recently asked Debra about her instruments, her ensemble (Les Délices), their debut recording, and upcoming projects.
You are known as player baroque and classical oboes, but also play other early woodwind instruments. Can you tell us which ones?
Yes, as if playing at least five or six different baroque and classical oboes (as well as baroque recorder) weren’t enough, I have a second specialty in late-medieval music. I own and enjoy performing on soprano and alto shawms, renaissance recorders, as well as douçaines – a very soft kind of cylindrical bore shawm.
Somehow I’ve managed to stay away from bagpipes – though I’ve been dreaming lately about the musette…
Read more...
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2/15/10
Debra Nagy Preview with Mike Telin on Cleveland Classical
Read the text of my informal chat with Mike Telin here (scroll down).
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2/14/10
Debra Nagy Featured Guest on "Musical Passions" with Eric Kisch
It was a pleasure to collaborate with Eric Kisch on a program featuring French Baroque music. We talked about my background as a baroque oboist, Les Délices' upcoming February concerts, and music for Valentine's Day. On the air since January 2004, Musical Passions is the culmination of Eric's
dream to share his collection of recordings with a wider audience. The program
regularly spotlights musicians and other committed music lovers from all walks
of life, allowing listeners to sample their musical tastes.
Audio excerpts from the program coming soon!
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12/20/09
Les Délices named one of Harmonia's "Top 10 Early Music Discoveries of 2009"
Bernard Gordillo of NPR's Hamonia writes: "American oboist Debra Nagy and her ensemble Les Délices flew out of the starting gate with their debut release, The Tastes Reunited. I return to it because its beauty and excellent ensemble work draws you in on multiple listenings."
Listen to the podcast.
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12/11/09
2010 CWF Recipients named
The CPAC Board met on December 11 to review the list of artists recommended for CWF Grants by the panel of judges. I feel honored to be included in such an esteemed group of grantees. I plan to use the funds to support concerts by Les Délices, the production of professional marketing materials, and to subsidize touring by the group to raise our national profile and reputation.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on the winners here:
Read CPAC's Press Release on the winners
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11/25/09
Community Partnership for Arts & Culture (CPAC) Creative Workforce Fellowships (CWF) Awarded
I spent a few hours on Monday morning as a fly on the wall at the Great Lakes Science Center in downtown Cleveland listening to the first round of adjudication for CWF applicants. It was interesting to listen in on the process, get a sense of the judges, and also to hear/see many very interesting applications from Cuyahoga county-based artists. I taught at Case all day on Tuesday and so I couldn't go hear the final rounds of adjudication, though I kept up on their progress via Twitter(!). Finally, after a lot of breath-holding, the judge's decisions were announced last night around 7pm. I was thrilled to find my case number (M-010) among those of the 20 artists unanimously recommended for this award by a panel of 7 judges (CPAC's board will meet on Dec 11 to ratify the judge's recommendations). This is a one-year $20,000 award for individuals in music, literature, theater, dance, and interdisciplinary artists funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. I'm very excited!
There's more information about the CWF Grant available here.
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11/16/09
Gallery Concert Series featured on ClevelandClassical.com
by Mike Telin
What makes music exciting is that musicians and organizations are always looking for new ways to present themselves to the public. Two events we attended recently made great headway in breaking out of the standard, 8:00, two hour concert format. Les Délices presented a 70-minute concert juxtaposing French Baroque music with modern art in a gallery, and the Cleveland Orchestra launched its Fridays@7 with a 70-minute orchestra concert followed by a 70-minute set of world music. In both cases, two art forms shared the same evening and complemented one another without seemingly having anything to do with one another. Both series represent new, passionate, entrepreneurial efforts on the part of individuals and organizations to attract audiences to performances of live music in an age when it's all too attractive to stay at home with one's digital music collection. Read more...
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11/6/09
Les Délices featured by Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit arts service organization that acts as our fiscal sponsor. This allows Les Délices accept donations and offer tax deductions to our supporters for their contributions, among other services.
This week, Fractured Atlas is featuring us on their blog and newsletter! :)
Read my interview with Emily Bowles from Fractured Atlas here.
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11/4/09
Les Délices Featured on Harmonia
Les Délices' CD is the featured recording on Harmonia's nationally-syndicated program this week, "Handel at Cannons." It'll be online next week until forever. Click this link for audio (available Nov. 9).
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11/1/09
CD Review in Nov/Dec 2009 Fanfare Magazine
Read the glowing review of Les Délices' debut CD "The Tastes Reunited" by Barry Brenesal in the latest issue of Fanfare Magazine. He remarks on Les Délices' "elegance, spryness, and leanness of sonority," adding that "all five [musicians] play with the intense awareness of each other common to the fines early-music ensembles, where the excitement of discovery..and joy of music feeds on itself." Read the entire review here.
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10/22/09
Les Délices CD available at area stores for the holidays!
Looking for a great holiday gift for friends or family? Want to support local businesses AND local artists? Then be sure to visit these special holiday shops, which will be stocking Les Délices' debut CD, The Tastes Reunited for a limited time only:
- Heights Arts Gallery Holiday Shop (2173 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, 44118 - just a few doors down from the Cedar Lee Theater). Open Nov 7-Dec 30.
- Made in the 216 Holiday Shop by Room Service (Right next to the newly opened Capitol Theater on W. 65th St at Detroit Ave). Open Nov. 6-29.
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10/12/09
Standing Room only at our inaugural Gallery Concert
We were thrilled to have a standing-room only crowd at our first gallery concert! The audience loved the intimate surroundings of the gallery, and the social aspect of the concert environment. Thanks to William Busta and Debra Rosen for helping to make this event such a success!
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10/08/09
Les Délices in the News and on the Radio
- Our October 8 appearance on WCPN's 90.3 Around Noon was a big hit. Thanks to Dee Perry & Dave DeOreo for the invitation!
Check out their archive of the segment on live webcam here. - Read Laura Kennelly's review of Les Délices' debut CD on the CoolCleveland blog here.
- William Fazekas reports on Les Délices' debut CD in the October 5 issue of Cleveland Classical.
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10/6/09
Les Délices LIVE on WCPN 90.3 Around Noon this Thursday Oct 8
Tune into WCPN 90.3 this Thursday Oct 8 at 12:30pm to hear Les Délices perform live from the Ideastream Center in downtown Cleveland. It's a great privilege for us to play for and be interviewed by Dee Perry on this extremely popular show. You can listen to the broadcast via streaming audio here.
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10/5/09
Les Délices CD Report on Cleveland Classical
by William Fazekas
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Italy dominated European musical culture, in the same way Vienna did in the late 18th and 19th centuries. (A lasting result of this is the use of Italian names for musical forms and moods: “concerto” and “allegro” and so forth.) Other European cities and nations would hire Italian musicians, or their native composers would imitate Italian forms and styles. Everywhere, save in France under Louis XIV, where Italianism was shunned — perhaps as much for reasons of politics as those of musical tastes. Read More...
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9/7/09
Les Délices Announces 2009-10 Concert Season
Cleveland-based chamber ensemble Les Délices is pleased to announce their 2009-10 concert season, which includes the launch of Saturday night concerts in Cleveland art galleries, and Sunday afternoon concerts in the beautiful acoustics of the John D.Herr Memorial Chapel at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights, OH. Read More.
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9/5/09
Les Délices named Artists in Residence at Plymouth Church
ArtsPlymouth at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights, OH has named Les Délices its Artists in Residence for 2009-2010. As part of this residency, Les Délices will perform two concerts in Herr Chapel at Plymouth in February and May, 2010.
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8/24/09
Les Délices featured on podcast produced by Bernard Gordillo for NPR's Early Music Showcase "Harmonia"
To listen to the podcast, click here. Or, download it.
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8/17/09
Les Délices selected for Early Music America's Touring Ensembles Artist Roster
This publication will be mailed in September 2009 to at least 3,000 presenters in North America.
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8/9/09
CD Review: The Tastes Reunited (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Les Délices earned a brief but beautiful review of their debut CD in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Read more.
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8/1/09
"The Tastes Reunited" is one of WCLV's "Choice CDs" for August
Tune in to Cleveland's Classical Station WCLV 104.9FM to hear "The Tastes Reunited" featured as one of their "Choice CDs" on Thurs 8/6, Mon 8/17, and Wed 8/26
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7/31/09
Les Délices featured on Audio Guide for "Watteau, Music, and Theater" at Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
The exhibition will demonstrate the place of music and theater in Watteau’s art, exploring the tension between an imagery of power, associated with the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and a more optimistic and mildly subversive imagery of pleasure, developed in opera-ballet and theater in the first years of the eighteenth-century. Read more.
Watteau, Music, and Theater
September 22, 2009–November 29, 2009
European Paintings Galleries, 2nd floor
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6/5/09
Debut CD Recording "The Tastes Reunited" has just been released!
Les Délices captures the essence of French-Italian fusion on their debut CD, "The Tastes Reunited." Works by François Couperin, François Chauvon, Louis-Antoine Dornel, Francesco Corbetta, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and others. Now available from digstation.com, CDbaby, iTunes and other online retailers.
Debut CD Press Release (June 2009)
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