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SOUNDbytes Continued from page 13 the Philadelphia area and Minnesota in April. An April program of Renaissance dance by Seattle Early Dance looked in on the entertainments of late-16thcentury Italian, French, and English courts. Vancouver vocal ensemble Stellaria made its debut in June with a program of Renaissance and Baroque music by Monteverdi, Janequin, and others. For its season ﬁnale in April, the Toronto Consort presented the original Carmina Burana, a collection of Medieval music and poetry found in a Bavarian monastery in the 19th century. Salt Lake City-based ensemble Utopia Early Music ﬁnished its third season with “Generous Beauty: A Musical Tour of Baroque Italy,” an April program whose offerings ranged from Monteverdi to Vivaldi. In Memoriam Soprano Judith Nelson, a co-founder of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, died in May after a 12-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 72. A pioneer in the early music revival during the 1960s, she Nelson sang with leading groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Among her 70-some recordings is a landmark onevoice-per-part scoring by 52 Fall 2012 Early Music America Joshua Rifkin of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, considered controversial at its release in 1981 (Nonesuch), but now more widely accepted. “Though Judy sang like a goddess, she was no diva,” said Philharmonia music director Nicholas McGegan. “She was funny, smart, a wonderfully supportive colleague, and a joy to be with.” Musicologist and dance historian Julia Sutton died peacefully Sutton in July in a Bostonarea nursing home at the age of 83 after a short illness. She was professor emerita at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she chaired the Music History/Musicology department for more than 20 years, as well as taught in the Performance of Early Music department and directed the Collegium Terpsichore. Sutton’s scholarship focused on the interconnections between music and dance in Western cultures. She wrote and edited many articles and books, including publishing a 1967 edition of Thoinot Arbeau’s 16th-century French dance manual Orchesography. She also helped found the Society of Dance History Scholars. Dance Chronicle will publish an “In Memoriam” later this year and invites those interested in submitting testimonies to send them to Barbara Sparti at her e-mail address: bsparti@mclink.it. I http://www.earlymusicguild.org http://www.harpsichord.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Fall 2012

Editor’s Note
EMA Competition
Sound Bytes
Musings: Listening Forward
Profile: A Classical Playlist on Your Cable Television
Recording Reviews
Reconstructing Spanish Songs from the Time of Cervantes
Janet See: Traversist on Two Continents
Musical Mosaic Explores “Perspectives of Interspersing Peoples”
Book Reviews
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Conducting Early Music

Early Music America Fall 2012