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Chicago Snapshot
by Nancy Malitz
I
n November 2013, a four-musician contingent from Chicago's Newberry
Consort visited the resplendent cathedral in Durango, Mexico, a once-thriving
colonial city of New Spain, founded in the late 16th century on the mistaken
assumption that the north-central Mexican plateau would be a lucrative spot for
silver mining. Next to the room in which the musicians played were cabinets
containing the source material for their concert: beautiful leather-bound books
of vellum, two feet by three feet in size, containing music that had been forgotten for centuries.
Consort co-directors Ellen Hargis (soprano) and
David Douglass (violin) were thrilled, and they
focused again on this music in Chicago concerts in
November 2014 called "¡Música Barroca Mexicana!"
featuring gems from the Durango stacks, many neverbefore heard in the United States. The idea came
about in the way ideas typically do for Douglass and
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Winter 2014
The Qualities of a Magician
Wagner’s Mastersingers
Crossing Genres
Cracking a Centuries-Old Tradition
Chicago Snapshot
From the Editor
Contributions
Letters
From the Executive Director
Early to Rise
Mapping the Music
The Art of the Amateur
Recording Reviews
Cartoon Corner
Canto
EMAg Puzzle
EMA Notes
Ad Index
Musings
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