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Getting a Head Start on Leipzig Week
Geoffrey Wieting |Boston Musical Intelligencer| February 7, 2018
In a bit of synchronicity and serendipity, the fourth and final year of Emmanuel Music's Felix Mendelssohn/Hugo Wolf Chamber Series coincided on Sunday with the opening of Leipzig Week in Boston and fell the day after Mendelssohn's 209th birthday. This trans-Atlantic cultural festival established to strengthen the alliance between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig (founded by Mendelssohn) also aims to "inspire new cultural exchanges and create a wide spectrum of performance and educational programs." more...
Emmanuel Music serves up robust and illuminating Bach for the Christmas season
Virginia Newes |Boston Musical Intelligencer| December 18, 2017
The six parts of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, performed Saturday evening by the singers and players of Emmanuel Music, celebrate the joyous events surrounding Christmas and the New Year: the birth of Jesus; the singing of the angels; the worship of the shepherds; the naming of the child; the coming of the Wise Men from the East; and the defeat of King Herod and the forces of evil. more...
Emmanuel Music serves up robust and illuminating Bach for the Christmas season
Jonathan Blumhofer |Boston Classical Review | December 17, 2017
Emmanuel Music knows how to make Bach's music dance.
The organization's performance Saturday night of the Christmas Oratorio served up Bach's music with plenty of gusto and schwung. Presented at Emmanuel Church, the performance was often thrilling and always touching. more...
Emmanuel Music Has Another Hit
Susan Miron |Boston Musical Intelligencer | September 24, 2017
The debut performances of Late Night at Emmanuel took its sassy place on Saturday at 8 and 10 PM. This lark caught the first show, and pronounced it an immediate, if not unexpected, smash hit.
The recipe for its success combines surefire ingredients, starting with the collegiality of the singers and players, which soon spread throughout its bursting-at-the-seats audience. And who doesn't like trading in one's ticket for a seat at a little table for four, meeting new friends, listening to really thought-provoking music by locals we mostly know (or knew), while enjoying wine and finger food? more...
Emmanuel Music debuts an intriguing late night of music and poetry
Benjamin Pesetsky | Boston Classical Review | September 24, 2017
Emmanuel Music launched a new late-night initiative Saturday, adding to its evening concert series and weekly Bach cantata services.
The program for Late Night at Emmanuel included several settings of Allen Ginsberg's poetry alongside two premieres by John Harbison, set to poems by Jessica Fischer and Lloyd Schwartz. The program was curated by baritone David Kravitz and mezzo-soprano Lynn Torgove. more...
Literary And Musical Circles Mix Things Up For Allen Ginsberg In A New Late-Night Series
Keith Powers | WBUR's The ARTery | September 19, 2017
Get ready to Howl.
Emmanuel Music has a new plan for the weekend: Let's stay up late listening to poetry and music. Kicking off a new series on Saturday, Sept. 23, poets, composers and musicians will gather for a literary/musical soirée, centered around Allen Ginsberg's supercharged diatribe "Howl." more...
Ups and Downs of the Boston Music Season, mostly Boston Symphony with Andris Nelsons, 2016-2017
Charles Warren | The Berkshire Review for the Arts | September 15, 2017
A more thoroughly satisfying concert was Emmanuel Music's performance of Bach's epical St. Matthew Passion at Emmanuel Church at the end of March. Artistic Director Ryan Turner did not go for simple grandeur and sonorousness, as some do with this piece, but for well-paced drama and expressiveness, lean (but not too lean) and clear. The relatively small orchestra played beautifully, with some striking solos. The chorus sang as if they really meant their words of praise, prayer, and lamentation. The Boston Children's Chorus contributed admirably to the occasion, starting with their interruption of the piece's turbulent opening chorus, singing in counterpoint their transcendent chorale "O Lamm Gottes Unschuldig." Tenor Charles Blandy held our attention perfectly as the Evangelist, spinning out his story. Bass Paul Max Tipton was a moving Jesus, beautifully haloed by the orchestra's strings. The many soloists—Emmanuel old hands and new—reached out to us with beauty and feeling and individual character. One fully entered into the experience of Bach's "witnesses"—those actively participating in, or those simply present at, the ancient events of Christ's arrest, trial, crucifixion, and burial. And one entered into the experience of the "faithful"—those who over the centuries and now, in Bach's rendering, contemplate and reflect on the mysterious and moving events. This work, especially when presented so powerfully as at Emmanuel, makes us one with the faithful—provisionally but at least to some extent indelibly, if we do not already number ourselves as such—more deeply if we do. more...
Emmanuel's Forceful, Subtle Matthew Passion
Matthew Heck | Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 6, 2017
Bach meant one thing to me as a young violinist. He was the genius behind the core of the violin canon—that well-spring of inspiration and technical challenge, that fountain of musical complexity, subtlety and beauty—the Three Sonatas and Three Partitas for Solo Violin. Other works loomed large, the Brandenburg Concerti and the Well Tempered Clavier for instance, but none challenged the central position of these six unaccompanied works for me...His instrumental works are glorious, groundbreaking, and fundamental, but as Bach made clear in his request for dismissal from Mühlhausen in 1708, he sought above all else to produce "a well-regulated church music" (The New Bach Reader), a canon of Lutheran church music unmatched in quality and theological expressiveness. His massive yearly cycles of church cantatas represent the epicenter of this work. In them Bach built extraordinarily detailed and dramatic structures that both project the core beliefs of Lutheran theology with elegance and specificity and strike the believer with such personal, emotional forcefulness, as to draw them in to the full experience of Christian life and belief. To this end, no work reaches greater heights and displays more forcefully the subtlety of Bach's musical imagination than the one Emmanuel Music presented on Friday, March 31st and Sunday, April 2nd at Emmanuel Church in Boston: J. S. Bach's Passio Domini nostri J.C. secundum Evangelistam Matthæum (1724) BWV 244, the St. Matthew Passion. more...
Turner leads Emmanuel Music in a soulful and affecting "St Matthew Passion"
Aaron Keebaugh | Boston Classical Review | April 1, 2017
Emmanuel Church on Boston's Newbury Street is a cornerstone of the city's musical life. For 46 years, it has been home to weekly performances of Bach's cantatas, which are presented as part of worship services. The church's performance organization, Emmanuel Music, has also frequently turned to large-scale works, including staged operas by Handel and Mozart. Bach's passion settings remain something of a specialty for Emmanuel Music, and recent seasons have witnessed performances of the St. John and reconstructed St. Mark Passions. Friday night at Emmanuel Church, the orchestra, chorus, and a group of superb soloists delivered a soulful St. Matthew Passion in its first performance under director Ryan Turner. more...
What Struck A Chord On The Classical Scene In Boston This Year
Lloyd Schwartz | WBUR | December 28, 2016
4. Opera Year Part II — Staged Performances
We got an even earlier Mozart opera (probably his earliest) from Emmanuel Music, in a lively bare-bones staging by Susan Larson at the Longy School, with Larson's own witty narration replacing the extended recitatives, and conducted with flair by Ryan Turner. "Apollo et Hyacinthus" was composed when Mozart was only 11, but there are already foreshadowings of later masterpieces. Tenor William Hite stole the show as the villainous king. Emmanuel also, in collaboration with Urbanity Dance, used every inch of Emmanuel Church for an inventive double bill of a fully staged Bach secular cantata ("The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan") and Kurt Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins," with a moving performance by Lynn Torgove as Anna I, whose major sin is not having enough money. Some people complained that the orchestra in the Weill wasn't gritty enough — I thought it was a rare treat to hear this wonderful score played with such refinement. more...
Emmanuel Tackles Apollo
Cashman Kerr Prince | Boston Musical Intelligencer | October 2, 2016
The Ticket: Classical music
David Weininger | Boston Globe | September 23, 2016
EMMANUEL MUSIC The organization begins its 46th season with an Apollo-themed program of youthful works by Handel and Mozart, along with a curtain-raiser by Edwin Sung, winner of Emmanuel's Handel Overture Composition Competition. Oct. 1 at 8 p.m., Oct. 2 at 3 p.m., Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge. more...
Mendelssohn Beyond the Facile
Tom Schnauber | Boston Musical Intelligencer | May 2, 2016
Probably the most remarkable aspect of Felix Mendelssohn as a composer, other than his frighteningly early manifestation of talent, was his mastery of technique. Informed largely by J.S. Bach and inspired more by the formality of the Classical period than the passions of the Romantic one in which he lived, his works are marvels of facility. The challenge for performers when taking them on is to make music out of all that craftsmanship. The Arneis Quartet was able to accomplish this brilliantly last Sunday when they performed an all-Mendelssohn concert at Emmanuel Church in the fourth and final program of Emmanuel Music's "Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber Series, Year II." more...
The ticket: Classical music
Jeremy Eichler | Boston Globe | April 22, 2016
SOLO + CHAMBER The Celebrity Series presents Jordan Hall recitals by mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (April 29) and pianist Emanuel Ax (May 1); A Far Cry partners with pianist Simon Dinnerstein to reimagine Bach's "Goldberg Variations" (April 30, St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain); and Emmanuel Music hosts the Arneis String Quartet in an all-Mendelssohn program (May 1, Emmanuel Church). www.celebrityseries.org, www.afarcry.org, www.emmanuelmusic.org more...
Playing Against Type
Kate Stringer | Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 15, 2016
Imagine a Vitaphone all-singing, all-dancing program of satirical sermons given in a neo-Gothic church to 500 enthusiasts on a happening Saturday night. A staged contest between pagan gods, scored by one of Western music's most devout Lutherans precedes a 1930s screed against capitalist values that takes an early Christian concept of sin as its chief metaphor. Is this a fever dream or a stroke of theatrical genius? more...
Emmanuel Music's "Bach Reinvented" contrasts musical art, high and low
David Wright| Boston Classical Review | April 10, 2016
Emmanuel Church was the unlikely site of a played, sung and danced debate on the merits of high and low art Saturday night, as the orchestra and singers of Emmanuel Music joined forces with the Urbanity Dance company in boisterous performances of J.S. Bach's comic cantata The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan and Kurt Weill's "sung ballet" The Seven Deadly Sins more...
Emmanuel Music, Urbanity Dance update Bach and Weill
Jeffrey Gantz | Boston Globe | April 11, 2016
For the final concert of its "Bach Reimagined" season, which has included Bach vocal arrangements by the Swingle Singers and a reconstructed "St. Mark Passion," Emmanuel Music teamed up with Betsi Graves's Urbanity Dance for an unlikely pair of topical pieces. Bach's "The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan" (BWV 201), which premiered in 1729 Leipzig, is a satire of popular music. Kurt Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins," which premiered in 1933 Paris, is a satire of capitalism. more...
The Seven Delightful Sins
Sarah Darling | Email Blast | April, 2016
"Oh... I LOVE that piece." It's a funny thing. I've been hearing that phrase from colleagues all week long as Emmanuel Music gets ready to play Kurt Weill's more-than-delicious "The Seven Deadly Sins" on Saturday. Even better, though, is the tone in which people say it. As if they're eating a second piece of chocolate cake. As if the sensuous harmonies are massaging their inner ears. As if the entire work were made of illicit delight. "If this is wrong, I don't want to be right." It's OK, guys. Listening to Kurt Weill is not the eighth deadly sin. more...
Wolff's Hybrid St. Mark Passion
David Patterson | Boston Musical Intelligencer | March 21, 2016
The headline from Emmanuel Church reads "Bach Reconstructed—J. S. Bach: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247." If you are looking in from the outside, the comments of Music Director Ryan Turner would point you in the right direction. "Fully aware that no reconstruction of a lost Bach work can ever equal what the composer himself actually wrote…" We are also informed that one of the foremost Bach scholars, Harvard's Christoph Wolff, with other scholars assisting, prepared Emmanuel's version of Bach's third passion. more...
Emmanuel Music re-creates Bach's 'St. Mark Passion'
Jeffrey Gantz | Boston Globe | March 21, 2016
Did Bach compose a "St. Mark Passion"? It seems likely he did, for the Good Friday service in Leipzig in 1731. Picander's libretto for this work (he also provided the libretto for Bach's "St. Matthew Passion") has survived. Bach's score has not. Saturday at Emmanuel Church, Emmanuel Music under artistic director Ryan Turner made a brave attempt to reconstruct the piece. more...
Emmanuel Music's skillful "St. Mark Passion" fails to make a Bach case
David Wright | Boston Classical Review | March 20, 2016
Emmanuel Music's concert of music by J.S. Bach and others, billed as a "reconstruction" of a lost Bach work, The Passion According to St. Mark, left a lot of questions unanswered, the most salient one being: Why? more...
Emmanuel Music presents hypothetical, hybrid Bach work
David Weininger | Boston Globe | March 17, 2016
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's famous obituary for his father, Johann Sebastian, contains a brief resume of the elder musician's works; to read through it is to feel extreme injustice at the treasures now gone. Reference is made to five cycles of church cantatas, two of which are lost, and five Passion settings, only two of which — the St. Matthew and the St. John — survived history's vicissitudes. more...
Boston's Emmanuel Music to give its first performance of Bach's St Mark Passion
Katy Wright| Rhinegold Publishing | March 3, 2016
Boston's Emmanuel Music will perform Bach's St Mark Passion for the first time in the ensemble's 46-year history. The group's director Ryan Turner created a reconstruction of the work for the ensemble using Bach's Trauerode BWV198 (a funeral cantata from 1727, and the origins of the work), Picander's libretto, three other reconstructions and the guidance of Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. more...
Five things to do in and around Boston, Feb. 8-14
Boston Globe | February 8, 2016
Starting Thursday, February 11
Excellent classical music, exquisite architecture, and exceptional acoustics make the annual Lindsey Chapel Series at Emmanuel Church in Boston a jewel of the winter arts season. This year's program features Bach's Cello Suites. The series runs Thursdays at noon through March 17; admission is free, but registration is requested. 617-536-3356; emmanuelmusic.org
Conductor François-Xavier Roth talks with Brian McCreath about Debussy's Jeux, why the Boston Symphony and Dutilleux's music are made for each other, and the kaleidoscopic colors of Stravinsky's Petrushka. Also, Ryan Turner of Emmanuel Music describes the impact of the Bach Institute, both for the student participants and for his own relationship with Bach's music. Listen
Top Ten Performances of 2015
David Wright and Aaron Keebaugh | Boston Classical Review | December 22, 2015
The urge to arrange J.S. Bach's music seems irresistible, starting with the master himself, who borrowed from his own works, turned his violin concertos into harpsichord concertos, etc. In this October concert Emmanuel Music, Boston's keeper of the Bach flame, digressed from its steady diet of cantatas to dip into the ocean of Bach arrangements, including a three-violin concerto more...
In 'Michelangelo-Lieder,' Hugo Wolf pondered fame AND futility
Matthew Guerrieri | Boston Globe | October 24, 2015
On Sunday afternoon, continuing a series surveying works of Felix Mendelssohn and Hugo Wolf, Emmanuel Music presents a concert including Wolf's "Michelangelo-Lieder," settings (in Walter Robert-Tornow's German translation) of three of that Renaissance artist's poems. Composed in the spring of 1897, they were the last songs Wolf completed; later that year, a massive mental breakdown signaled his descent into syphilitic insanity. He lingered until 1903, dying at 42. The 200-plus songs that anchor his reputation resulted from less than a decade of intense activity. Inevitably, the "Michelangelo-Lieder" have been perused for hints of Wolf's incipient madness. The second of the songs, the stark, fatalistic "Alles endet, was entstehet" more...
Re: When We Listen to Bach
Sudeep Agarwala | Boston Musical Intelligencer | October 5, 2015
Given the demands on his time, Johann Sebastian Bach frequently borrowed from earlier pieces, many of which have not survived: by some estimates, over 200 Weimar works are lost and only 15-20 percent of his Cöthen output survives. Tracing provenance may seem pedantic, but it helps inform us how this music did, and perhaps should, sound. Bach Rearranged, the first of Emmanuel Music's 2015-16 Bach Reimagined, opened in Longy's Pickman Hall Saturday. Ryan Turner's thoughtfully offered settings and resettings of Johann Sebastian Bach—how his music was reincarnated in his own hands and how it has been shaped by other composers for modern ears. more...
Emmanuel Music serves up Bach with several twists
David Wright | Boston Classical Review | October 4, 2015
Riff on J.S. Bach? They wouldn't dare. But dare they did, Saturday night in the Longy School's Pickman Hall, as Emmanuel Music—yes, that Emmanuel Music, Boston's longtime keeper of the Bach flame—put a sleazy jazz beat under the master's precious measures, substituted some musicologist's speculation for his authentic music, and even brought in that horrible modern composer Igor Stravinsky, all of it under the all-too-candid title "Bach Rearranged." And the most shocking thing of all was: Everybody had a great time, including this reviewer. more...
Under Ryan Turner's leadership, Emmanuel Music forges ahead
David Weininger | Boston Globe | October 1, 2015
'One of the most thrilling things about the job for me is that every week I'm a student," said Ryan Turner, a tenor and conductor, in a recent interview. He was describing one of his chief roles as artistic director of Emmanuel Music: leading one of Bach's sacred cantatas every Sunday as part of the worship service at Emmanuel Church. Having taken over at Emmanuel in 2010, Turner said that he's currently about two-thirds of the way through the roughly 200 surviving cantatas. (Many more are lost to history.) "Every week I'm encountering a new cantata," he continued. "That's one of the most exciting things — always feeling like you're learning." This regular liturgical contact with Bach — "our weekly dialogue," Turner called it — isn't just a distinguishing feature of Emmanuel; it was the group's raison d'etre when it was founded by Craig Smith in 1970. more...
Emmanuel Music Traces Bach Influence
BMINT Staff | Boston Musical Intelligencer | September 28, 2015
Over the last five years Emmanuel Music's Artistic Director Ryan Turner has left his imprint with SRO performances of The Great Gatsby and A Little Night Music, as well as, more predictably, the company's first St. John Passion in many years. Throughout this season, titled Bach Reimagined, the master provides the programming inspiration, beginning October 3rd with Bach Rearranged, comprising Mahler, Stravinsky and the Swingle Singers' takes. Emmanuel Music also continues its 46-year Bach cantata series in a liturgical setting and carries on with the second year of its Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber Series, which includes collaborations with the Lydian and the Arneis Quartets. The Intelligencer had questions for Turner. more...
Emmanuel Music, with Andrew Rangell, Piano, at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Charles Warren | New York Arts | July 3, 2015
It is always a pleasure to be in the Cape Ann harbor town of Rockport and to attend musical events in the beautiful Shalin Liu recital hall with its glass wall looking out to sea. The June 26th concert provided a striking contrast in styles of Baroque era music, with works of Bach and Handel, respectively, in the two parts of the program. The listener was invited into an emotional journey from darkness to light. more...
Emmanuel's effervescence rules Rockport
David Weininger | Boston Globe | June 29, 2015
ROCKPORT — In addition to importing high-caliber groups and performers, Rockport Music has smartly forged relationships with a number of important Boston ensembles. Case in point: Emmanuel Music, which the Rockport Chamber Music Festival brought to the Shalin Liu Performance Center on Friday for a program of works by Bach and Handel. more...
Gorgeous Singing in a Harem
Susan Miron| Boston Musical Intelligencer | May 11, 2015
Under its excellent Artistic Director Ryan Turner, Emmanuel Music performed a Mozart Singspiel in concert on Saturday night at the namesake church with an extraordinary cast. Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) became an instant success when it premiered in 1782, though nowadays The Abduction nowadaysis the least frequently performed of Mozart's most famous four. It has been accused of being "too beautiful for our ears" and of having "too many notes" (by the Emperor himself, probably apocryphally) and an excessive diversity of styles. more...
Fine singing and Mozartean fireworks in Emmanuel Music's "Abduction"
Angelo Mao | Boston Classical Review | May 10, 2015
"Fireworks and fine singing were plentiful Saturday night in Emmanuel Music's performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio.
Mozart's first big operatic success, Abduction is technically a singspiel, with spoken dialogue alternating with sets and arias. Emmanuel Music chose to present the dialogue in English, which jarred at first, but made sense; Abduction was intended to be a popular opera, not opaque, and it would have been difficult to fit titles in Emmanuel Church. Thanks to the singer's clear and forward enunciation of dialogue, the plot unfolded as easily as if it had been staged." more...
Emmanuel Music treats every Mozart note of 'Abduction' just right
Jeffrey Gantz | Boston Globe | May 11, 2015
"Too beautiful for our ears, and a great many notes, dear Mozart," is reported to have been Emperor Joseph II's complaint upon hearing "The Abduction From the Seraglio." Had the emperor been present at Emmanuel Music's concert performance Saturday at Emmanuel Church, he might have reached a more positive conclusion." more...
Pamela Dellal on Bach's St. John Passion
Talk with WCRB's Brian McCreath about the emotional power, interpretive challenges, and his own vision of J.S. Bach's St. John Passion, a work broadcast on 99.5 WCRB on Sunday, Mar. 29, at 7pm, in a concert performance by Emmanuel Music. Read more and Listen to the interview here
Emmanuel Music's radiant 'St. John Passion'
Jeffrey Gantz | Boston Globe | March 23, 2015
"You don't know Bach unless you know the 'St. John Passion.'" That was Emmanuel Music founder Craig Smith writing on the occasion of Emmanuel's recording of the work in 1999. "It is misshapen, personal, and messy," he continued, "in the same way that the story is misshapen, personal, and messy." Saturday at Emmanuel Church, current Emmanuel Music artistic director Ryan Turner led the orchestra and choir in a "St. John Passion" that mostly did justice to Smith's sentiments. more...
Emmanuel Music offers a lithe, intimate take on Bach's "St. John Passion"
Aaron Keebaugh | Boston Classical Review | March 22, 2015
Emmanuel Music's performance of the St. John Passion was powerful in its depiction of the Christian story, with all forces of the choir and orchestra working together as a living, breathing organism. more...
Emmanuel's Fervent Passion
David Patterson | Boston Musical Intelligencer| March 22, 2015
If the opening chorus of Bach's St. John Passion took to legato, eschewing punch, there certainly was power throughout "Lord, our ruler, Whose fame in every land is glorious!" More orchestra to enrich this stirring prediction of what was to come seemed in order. With Saturday evening's performance by Emmanuel Music under the direction of Ryan Turner came a good dose of artistry. more...
Mendelssohn and Wolf Seeking Connections
Patrick Valentino | Boston Musical Intelligencer | November 18, 2014
Emmanuel Music continued its examination of the chamber music of Felix Mendelssohn and all 53 songs from Gedichte von Eduard Mörike fur eine Singstimme und Klavier by Hugo Wolf on Sunday in the Parish Hall. The objective seems to be revealing unsuspected connections between the two composers when their works are interspersed; I confess I didn't perceive any connections, separated as these compositions are by 60+ years and the Himalayan divide of Richard Wagner. But it was nevertheless satisfying to hear a mixture of the well-known and lesser-known in mostly accomplished performances. And among the songs, at least, there were cross-references, even at times suggestions of storylines. more...
Turner Pairs Wolf and Mendelssohn
Cashman Kerr Prince | Boston Musical Intelligencer | November 5, 2014
Sunday afternoon Emmanuel Music kicked off Year I of its Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber Series in the Parish Hall. The series continues with two more concerts this season and encompass all 53 of Wolf's Mörike Lieder. From what I heard, this series will draw crowds. more...
Emmanuel Music Crosses the Charles
Patrick Valentino | Boston Musical Intelligencer | October 18, 2014
Best known for its cycles of Bach cantatas, Emmanuel Music gave a concert featuring music for string orchestra and voice Friday night at the Longy School. The sensitive programming of Artistic Director Ryan Turner allowed the wide-ranging repertoire, from Mendelssohn to Stravinsky to a new work by John Harbison, not only to achieve a cogent unity but also to reveal some fascinating interconnections. more..
Emmanuel Music starts its season at a 'Crossroads
Jeffrey Gantz | Boston Globe | October 18, 2014
The "crossroads" of the Emmanuel Music evening at Longy School of Music on Friday was John Harbison's 2012 title piece, a setting of three poems from Louise Glück's 2009 volume "A Village Life." "Crossroads" acted as a meeting place for Felix Mendelssohn's Sinfonia No. 2 (written in 1821, when the composer was just 12), Hugo Wolf's "Italian Serenade" (1887), and selections from Wolf's "Mörike-Lieder" (1888), and Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D for strings (1946). more..
Pianissimo: Memorable keyboard art by Russell Sherman and Marc-André Hamelin and chamber music by the Takács and Borromeo String Quartets trigger some personal reminiscences
| New York Arts| May 21, 2014
One performer who didn't know he had a major influence on my career as a critic is the Boston pianist and legend Russell Sherman, who concluded Emmanuel Music's four-year Beethoven chamber series on March 30 with an extraordinary chamber concert that also celebrated Sherman's 84th birthday. more . .
John Harbison's The Supper at Emmaus - co-commissioned by Emmanuel Music and Cantata Singers - received great reviews.
Matthew Guerrieri | Boston Globe | May 10, 2014
The warm applause for the composer onstage Friday night reflected not just the quality of the new work but the audience's awareness of the decades-long creative relationship among Harbison, Hoose and the Cantata Singers, and Emmanuel Music under its late director Craig Smith. more . .
Oh Susanna, How Fine a Performance
Angelo Mao | Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 8, 2014
Emmanuel Music's performance of Handel's oratorio Susanna on Saturday at Emmanuel Church brought the story vividly to life with a stellar cast of singers and instrumentalists led by music director Ryan Turner. Susanna tells the story of the chaste young wife who is framed by two elders (corrupt judges, in fact) who, "inflamed by lust," set upon her as she bathes in her garden during her husband's absence. When she rejects their advances, they accuse her of adultery with a younger man. more . .
Emmanuel Music Presents Boston Premiere of Handel's "Susanna"
Boston Classical Review | April 6, 2014
Emmanuel Music provided a strong performance of Handel's Susanna, in its belated Boston premiere Saturday night. The work is not one of Handel's more frequently performed oratorios, and this concert performance exposed the work's shortcomings while also making a convincing case for its revival. This latter was due mainly to a fine cast of singers and the polished contributions of the Emmanuel chorus and orchestra. more . .
Emmanuel Music — Beethoven Inspires a Seriously Big Event
Susan Miron | Arts Fuse | April 5, 2014
Emmanuel Music, one of Boston's most celebrated musical gems, had plenty to celebrate this past Sunday. It was the final concert of a very successful four-year survey of Beethoven's chamber music, and was the 84th birthday (actually five days before) of the beloved pianist Russell Sherman. In addition to turning out a generations of amazing piano students, Sherman has been an integral part of the evolution of Emmanuel Music, both in terms of his spirit and his performances. more . .
Sherman's return to Emmanuel Music worth celebrating
Matthew Guerrieri | The Boston Globe | April 1, 2014
Not everyone can upstage the most formidably famous composer in the Western canon, but not everyone is Russell Sherman. On Sunday, for the final concert of Emmanuel Music's four-year-long survey of Beethoven's chamber music, the pianist made his first appearance since breaking his hip last September, and his return became the concert's cynosure. more . .
Beethoven Chamber Works Come Full Cycle
Geoffrey Wieiting | Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 1, 2014
Artistic Director Ryan Turner welcomed the renowned pianist Russell Sherman in collaboration with violinist Gabriela Diaz and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer as Emmanuel Music finished its multi-year series encompassing the chamber works of Ludwig van Beethoven. more . .
Emmanuel Music Makes "A Little Night Music"
Lloyd Schwartz | New York Arts | February 5, 2014
Given the history of Mozart and Strauss operas at Emmanuel Music under its late founding director Craig Smith, it's not so far-fetched that Emmanuel's current director Ryan Turner would turn to A Little Night Music for its first attempt at a Broadway musical. It was imaginatively staged by mezzo soprano (and now cantor) Lynn Torgove on a series of platforms (with no conventional scenery and the orchestra on stage) at the Boston Conservatory Theatre. more . .
Neither Mozart nor Bach, but Fine "Night Music"
Benjamin Pesetsky | Boston Musical Intelligencer | January 21, 2014
"Why an Emmanuel Music A Little Night Music?" asks artistic director Ryan Turner in the program to this weekend's performances of the Stephen Sondheim musical. But really this is only a surface level surprise—a matter of category that Emmanuel would present musical theater in addition to its usual Bach cantatas—it all makes perfect sense once you see the show. The need for justification has been greatly exaggerated. more . .
Fuse Music Review: Emmanuel Music's "A Little Night Music" — An Uneven Evening
Debra Cash | Arts Fuse | January 21, 2014
What do Stephen Sondheim and Johann Sebastian Bach have in common? That's not a trick question. Emmanuel Music, the beloved ensemble that made its reputation with a commitment to perform Bach's sacred cantatas "in the liturgical setting for which they were intended" stretched out this past weekend in a much-anticipated (and sold-out) semi-staged production of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music. more . .
Let me admit right off that I have always been prejudiced against Stephen Sondheim. Here is a man who writes for the benighted Broadway stage who has so little skill at composition – or so little interest in how his work ends up – that he sends his skeletal scores out to an arranger to flesh out into their final form. more . .
O Come Eine Kleine Singspiel from Emmanuel
BMI Staff | Boston Musical Intelligencer | January 14, 2014
In its 43 years, Emmanuel Music has become a preeminent Boston institution, presenting weekly Bach cantatas in liturgical setting and performing concert repertoire from Baroque to contemporary. Programming one of the great 20th-century operettas may therefore take some by surprise, but Turner doesn't see it that way. more . .
Jeremy Eichler's 2013 classical music picks
Jeremy Eichler | The Boston Globe | December 28, 2013
Jeremy Eichler mentions Emmanuel Music in his 2013 list of classical music picks. more . .
Good Times, Bum Times: Last Year in Boston
Lloyd Schwartz| New York Arts | December 28, 2013
At last, the first Boston performance of John Harbison's The Great Gatsby (a Met 1999 commission), in a superb concert version produced by Emmanuel Music and led by Emmanuel's director Ryan Turner (and repeated at Tanglewood) more . .
Sunday Afternoon at Emmanuel Music
David Moran | Boston Musical Intelligencer | November 5, 2013
The Sunday afternoon late-Beethoven piano recital at Emmanuel Church for Emmanuel Music featured Sergey Schepkin playing the last Bagatelles and opus 110 and Katherine Chi the Diabelli Variations. More to ponder. Bagatelles are akin to 'trick pieces', artistic director Ryan Turner informed us in brief remarks beforehand. more . .
More Beethoven at Emmanuel
Cashman Kerr Prince | Boston Musical Intelligencer | October 21, 2013
Emmanuel Music presented the first concert of the fourth and final season of its Beethoven Chamber Series at Emmanuel Church on Sunday afternoon. Among the top tier of composers, it feels like Bach and Mozart receive more than their fair share of dedicated concerts and festivals while all-Beethoven programs [piano sonatas and the Ninth Symphony notwithstanding] might be slightly less common. But Emmanuel is proving that a well-planned and well-played Beethoven program doesn't have to be overpowering, and in fact a full helping of Beethoven can affect perceptions of the works themselves and be very rewarding. more . .
At Emmanuel, beyond Beethoven's greatest hits
Jeremy Eichler | The Boston Globe | September 30, 2013
On Saturday night at Emmanuel Church, the work was the anchor and highpoint of a program designed to spotlight what Emmanuel artistic director Ryan Turner referred to as Beethoven's hidden gems. For the occasion, Emmanuel recruited pianist Robert Levin and tapped two string players from its own orchestra — violinist Heather Braun and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer. more . .
Emmanuel Music & the Faces of Beethoven
Cashman Kerr Prince | Boston Musical Intelligencer | September 30, 2013
Saturday night Emmanuel Music gathered under the baton of Ryan Turner with Beethoven to open its 2013-14 season. The Egmont Overture gave way to a selection of less frequently heard arias; the Triple Concerto, featuring BMInt's Robert Levin, rounded out the polished program. more . .
Emmanuel Music's Beethoven program offers a double triple with singers and concerto
Keith Powers | Boston Classical Review | September 29, 2013
On Saturday night at Emmanuel Church, the work was the anchor and highpoint of a program designed to spotlight what Emmanuel artistic director Ryan Turner referred to as Beethoven's hidden gems. For the occasion, Emmanuel recruited pianist Robert Levin and tapped two string players from its own orchestra — violinist Heather Braun and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer. more . .
More on Harbison's Gatsby
Berkshire Review | August 1, 2013
My colleagues, Lloyd Schwartz and Larry Wallach, have already written extensively about Emmanuel Music's performance of John Harbison's third opera, The Great Gatsby, both at Jordan Hall and at Tanglewood. I won't attempt a full review, but I would like to share a few thoughts about the opera and the performance, both of which I heartily admired. more . .
REVISED: Judicial Review #11:
"The Great Gatsby" — A Great Opera?
The Arts Fuse | July 11, 2013
[Revised] Arts Fuse Critic Roberta Silman has just added her review of the Tanglewood premiere of John Harbison's opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Read her reaction and others and join the conversation. Opinions about the new movie version welcome as well. more . .
The Great Gatsby John Harbison's Opera performed at Tanglewood
Dave Read, The Berkshires | July 11, 2013
The concert performance in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood of The Great Gatsby, by the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music, was so enjoyable that we're tempted to propose a corollary to F. Scott Fitzgerald's adage, There are no second acts in American lives, to wit, American novels can get third lives. more . .
'Great Gatsby' opera brings the text to life
Mary Jane Leach, Times Union | July 12, 2013
How does one take on the daunting task of making an opera out of "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel about the Roaring '20s? In John Harbison's case, very carefully, working incrementally and with the ability to sustain the germ of an idea over a long timespan, in this case almost 30 years, expanding from an initial orchestral piece (which became the opera's overture), to a full-scale opera mounted by the Metropolitan Opera, with subsequent configurations and polishings. more . .
'The Great Gatsby' at Tanglewood: Mythic figure is just a deluded lover
Andrew L. Pincu, Berkshire Eagle | July 13, 2013
One thing that can be said for John Harbison, the composer of an operatic version of "The Great Gatsby" that was revived in concert at Tanglewood on Thursday, is that he was well ahead of the current "Gatsby" craze. more . .
The Rich Are Different: They Can Sing
Zachary Wolff, The New York Times | July 14, 2013
One thing that can be said for John Harbison, the composer of an operatic version of "The Great Gatsby" that was revived in concert at Tanglewood on Thursday, is that he was well ahead of the current "Gatsby" craze. more . .
"The Great Gatsby," Sung Beneath the Stars
Robert Burke Warren, Rural Intelligence | July 5, 2013
When The Great Gatsby hit bookstores in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's peers loved it, but critical response was mixed; it sold poorly, and the definitive Jazz Age novel faded into obscurity for two decades, rising again only after WW II. Sadly, Fitzgerald, who passed away in 1940, did not live to see this turnaround, confirming, prematurely, the writer's own line that "there are no second acts in American lives." Composer John Harbison, by contrast, gets to enjoy the second act of his operatic interpretation of The Great Gatsby, presented in a concert version by Emmanuel Music on Thursday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. at Tanglewood's Seiji Ozawa Hall. more . .
Boston Symphony Orchestra Presents John Harbison With The Mark M. Horblit Merit Award
www.classicalsource.com | July 5, 2013
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has presented John Harbison with the Mark M. Horblit "Merit Award" for distinguished composition by an American composer. The award was created in 1947 by the late Boston attorney Mark M. Horblit to, in his own words, "foster and promote the writing of symphonic compositions by composers resident in the United States…in recognition of meritorious work in that field." more . .
Variety marks Gardner Museum, Emmanuel programs
David Weininger, The Boston Globe | May 24, 2013
Fresh off the Boston premiere of John Harbison's opera "The Great Gatsby," Emmanuel Music has some quite different music theater in store for its 2013-14 season: Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," which Emmanuel will bring to the Boston Conservatory Theater on Jan. 18. more . .
Judicial Review #11:
"The Great Gatsby" — A Great Opera?
The Arts Fuse | May 20, 2013
John Harbison's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was an opera a long time in the works: 14 years elapsed between Remembering Gatsby, a 1985 foxtrot for orchestra (which Harbison's program note explains was adapted from an "abandoned" operatic setting) and the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Great Gatsby in December 1999. more . .
John Harbison's The Great Gatsby in Boston
Lloyd Schwartz, New York Arts | May 17, 2013
"So we beat on, boats against the currents, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Nick Carraway's concluding insight in The Great Gatsby is one of the great closing sentences in literature, and one of the great images of our human helplessness to escape the past. It's also the line that ends John Harbison's Gatsby opera, which—13 years after its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera—just had its first complete Boston performance, in a concert version produced by Emmanuel Music . . . more
A New Take on Dramatic Adaptation:
The Great Gatsby Opera
Jessica Monk, The Literary Traveler | May 17, 2013
Gone are the days when literature fans were ranting traditionalists, decrying other media besides quill and parchment. These days we're as much dependent on the screen to feed our reading habits as anyone else. So how do we feel about an adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby, that makes the transition backward – to an older medium, from the page to the live action world of the stage? more ...
John Harbison's Opera The Great Gatsby
David Bonetti, Berkshire Fine Arts | May 16, 2013
Talk about fortuitous timing. When Emmanuel Music set the date for its concert performance of John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, it had no idea that a movie blockbuster based on the same novel was premiering the same weekend. Infected by the enormous publicity the Baz Luhrmann movie received, it seemed that everyone in town was buzzing about Jay Gatsby and his gin-fueled parties. more ...
A belated Boston premiere for 'Gatsby'
Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe | May 13, 2013
The theater world has an established tradition of developing new pieces over time through workshops and out-of-town tryouts, but the opera world has maintained, in certain quarters, a high-stakes tradition of what the composer John Harbison has called "the cold-bath opening night." Harbison's vastly scaled third opera, The Great Gatsby, received one such cold bath in December of 1999, when it premiered on the not-so-out-of-town stage of the Metropolitan Opera. more ...
Pursuing Fitzgerald
Brian Schuth, Boston Musical Intelligencer | May 13, 2013
The Great Gatsby is the great elusive target of American literary adaptation, constantly pursued but never caught. Iconic and beloved, with a cool shell of distance wrapping a gooey center of pure romantic idolatry, it is so tempting, but I'm in the camp that believes any attempt to turn the novel into performing art is doomed from the start. This weekend has not disabused me of that opinion. However, both Baz Luhrmann's art-direction orgasm of a film and John Harbison's rather more sophisticated opera succeed in producing something of value as a result of their pursuits, even if what they created is not quite a complete success. more ...
Emmanuel Music gives a belated yet powerful Boston premiere for Harbison's Great Gatsby
David Wright, Boston Classical Review | May 13, 2013
Even while demonstrating yet again how stoutly F. Scott Fitzgerald's delicate novel The Great Gatsby resists adaptation into other media, Emmanuel Music under Ryan Turner and 12 vocal soloists made spectacular sounds Sunday afternoon with a vibrant performance of John Harbison's opera version of the story. Like the dance band in Fitzgerald's description, the ensemble that stuffed the stage of New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall was "no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums." And much else besides. more ...
A truly great Gatsby: John Harbison's opera gets a thrilling performance in Boston
Roger Mortimer-Smith, bachtrack | May 15, 2013
Between Baz Luhrmann's recent film The Great Gatsby, Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby currently at Sadler's Wells, and Elevator Repair Service's circulation-testing, eight-hour Gatz at the Noël Coward Theatre last year, Londoners such as myself could be forgiven for feeling all Gatsbied out (in truth, Gatz could probably have achieved that by itself). This perfect storm of Gatsbys seems to be pure coincidence – neither 2012 nor 2013 is a significant anniversary, either for the novel or Fitzgerald himself – so anyone asking why no major opera houses joined the party by staging John Harbison's operatic treatment of the story could be answered that there was no reason for there to be a party in the first place. more ...
Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Present
Ryan Turner and Susan Larson, The Boston Music Intelligencer | May 6, 2013
Gatsby is back! F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel continues to haunt us with its portrait of glitter, frivolity and bad behavior. There have been TV, radio, theatrical, literary, even computer-game adaptations. The fifth major Gatsby movie is playing in theaters; and on May 12th at Jordan Hall, Emmanuel Music will present in concert form, the New England premiere of John Harbison's brilliant Grand Opera The Great Gatsby. more ...
Harbison and Beethoven on Newbury Street
Lee Eisman, The Boston Music Intelligencer | February 11, 2013
Ryan Turner, artistic director of Emmanuel Music, described the programmatic glue of Sunday's post-blizzard program as "theme and variations." The fine group of four Beethoven lieder he chose reflected this conception: their texts were all variations on the idea of the variegated nature—bliss and suffering, hope and ecstasy—of love, as in most lyric German poetry of that period: Liebe, Sehnsucht, Blume, and Grab are the watchwords. more ...
Obituary: Mary Ruth Ray, cofounder of the Lydian String Quartet
Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe | February 1, 2013
In a string quartet, the viola and the second violin are commonly referred to as the inner voices, less frequently in the spotlight, yet essential to the core of any ensemble's sound. Mary Ruth Ray, as the founding violist of the Lydian String Quartet and as a key member of the ensemble at Emmanuel Music, was one of Boston's most dependable inner voices. more ...
The Bach Institute offers concerts, seminars
David Weininger, The Boston Globe | January 3, 2013
The music of J.S. Bach is an enduring feature of Emmanuel Music. This is most evident at Sunday services, where a Bach cantata is performed nearly every weekend at Emmanuel Church, but one senses that the composer is somehow present there at all times. And for the third consecutive year, the ensemble is guiding a small group of students through an intensive study of Bach's music. more ...
Joy and Tribulation at Emmanuel
Cashman Kerr Prince, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | December 2, 2012
Last night Emmanuel Music presented J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to a crowded nave in Emmanuel Church. This was a marathon concert with many highlights. Bach composed this work for Advent season in 1734–35. The whole is divided into six parts, each a cantata in its own right, and originally designed to be performed on different days during liturgical services from Christmas through Epiphany. more ...
Emmanuel Music offers rare 'Christmas Oratorio'
Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe | December 2, 2012
Unlike Handel's "Messiah", Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" has never been a Boston holiday tradition. Of course, it didn't start out as a single performance piece in its home town of Leipzig. Bach composed (or recomposed — a lot of recycling was involved) the oratorio in 1734, and the six cantatas that make it up were first presented individually in the churches of St. Thomas and St. Nicholas between Christmas Day and Epiphany of 1734-35. more ...
Beethoven and Harbison With "Divine Power"
James C.S. Liu, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | October 1, 2012
A capacity crowd filled the Parish Hall at Emmanuel Church in the Back Bay Sunday for the inaugural concert of the third season of Emmanuel Music's traversal of the complete chamber music of Ludwig van Beethoven. The first two seasons focused mostly on early Beethoven; with this season Emmanuel makes the transition to the middle-period masterworks, adding modern counterpoints from John Harbison in each concert in the series. more ...
Bach Cantatas Resume at Emmanuel
Ryan Turner, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | September 15, 2012
On this Sunday, Emmanuel Music begins its 42nd consecutive season of Bach Cantatas with full orchestra. The series is integral to religious services for most of the Sundays in the liturgical calendar. This has been an astonishing run, well exceeding Bach's 27 years at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The late Craig Smith presided over the first 37, and then John Harbison and others took over the roles of conductor and music director on interim bases until Ryan Turner was appointed two years ago. more ...
Music Only, Mercifully, in Tito
Andrew Sammut, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 16, 2012
While Mozart's penultimate opera La Clemenza di Tito K. 621, (The Mercy of Titus) is often described in terms of its utilitarian genesis and dramatic shortcomings, on Saturday night Emmanuel Music simply, and powerfully, relied upon Mozart's music. Their concert setting at Emmanuel Church sold a work that is often a tough sale for contemporary audiences more ...
Emmanuel Music does full justice to Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito"
Angela Mao, The Boston Classical Review | April 15, 2012
La Clemenza di Tito is the least performed and most difficult to execute of Mozart's mature operas. Not only does the score call for a castrato (taken by a mezzo-soprano or countertenor today) prima donna with both extraordinary fire and range, the serious work lacks Mozart's usual light touch more ...
Emmanuel Music Performs Mozart's Rarely Staged Operatic Salute to Forgivness - "La Clemenza di Tito"
Susan Miron, Arts Fuse | April 15, 2012
Sellars' on Bach's Matthäus-Passion
Concertgoers expect certain things from Emmanuel Music's concerts: excellent singers, superb instrumentalists, and performances that are well-conducted, well-attended, and historically informed. Last Saturday night, all these criteria were met in a thoroughly engaging, un-staged version of Mozart penultimate, rarely heard opera, La Clemenza di Tito (K. 621). more ...
Recently uploaded, here's an hour-long interview of Peter Sellars with Simon Halsey (chief conductor of the Rundfunkchor Berlin) from April 2010 in the Berlin Philharmonie all about Bach's early music masterpiece, Matthäus-Passion more ...
Schumann's scenes of childhood, unrequited love
Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe | February 21, 2012
The poet James Fenton has written about the purity and intensity of joy we experience as young children through activities as simple as dancing, jumping, and singing. There is a kind of mercy, he says, in what he calls the "primal erasure,'' the forgetting of these moments, or else their loveliness might spoil us for life more ...
From Bach to Stravinsky at Emmanuel
Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe | February 13, 2012
Just about any program of classical music written after his death, in 1750, could be called "Connected by Bach,'' so pervasive is the master's influence. But the quartet of pieces that Emmanuel Music assembled for its concert Saturday night at Emmanuel Church would have been welcome under any rubric: Bach's own Orchestral Suite No. 4, John Corigliano's "Fancy on a Bach Air,'' Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks'' Concerto, and then, for the second half of the evening, Stravinsky's complete "Pulcinella'' ballet. more ...
Stravinsky, Corigliano are colorfully connected with Bach by Emmanuel Music
David Wright, The Boston Classical Review | February 12, 2012
Emmanuel Music, founded to perform the cantatas of J.S. Bach, turned a refracting telescope on the master Saturday night at Emmanuel Church with a program of his orchestral music coupled with 20th-century works by Stravinsky and Corigliano. more ...
In sharing cycle of a love - and life - lost, tenor makes Sunday super
Harlow Robinson, The Boston Globe | February 8, 2012
While much of Boston was setting out the hors d'oeuvres for Super Bowl parties, a crowd packed into the parish hall at Emmanuel Church late Sunday afternoon to witness a more intimate kind of matchup. This one also lasted for about 60 minutes, but without any timeouts or halftime. It did not require protective clothing, but demanded no less stamina, conditioning, or psychological preparation. There were only two participants: tenor Frank Kelley and pianist Russell Sherman more ...
Kelley and Sherman Ably Tell the Tale
Anthony J. Palmer, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | February 7, 2012
Emmanuel Music continues to offer programs of unique interest to the Boston concert-going public. Franz Schubert's first song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin, was given a thorough and heartfelt reading in Emmanuel Church on February 5 for an adoring crowd of some 300 listeners. Schubert made a major contribution to the Romantic legacy, and certainly established a song repertoire, not since surpassed, with some 600 solo works in his short life of 31 years more ...
Emmanuel Music Delivers
Susan Miron, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | January 23, 2012
For the fourth and last of this year's concerts dedicated to Beethoven's chamber music, Emmanuel Music presented some quite rarely heard works, all of which deserved a hearing. Four string players, two horn players, a baritone and a pianist took turns entertaining the full hall, and brought this series to an unusually delightful end more ...
Emmanuel Music's Early Beethoven Banquet
James C.S. Liu, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | January 10, 2012
Emmanuel Music continued the second year of their Beethoven chamber series at Emmanuel Church on Sunday, January 8 with another program exploring Beethoven's creative output in his earliest years. For quite a few years, Emmanuel Music has explored the chamber music of several composers in comprehensive fashion, playing little-known and under-appreciated works alongside art songs and more popular warhorses more ...
Emmanuel Music's B Minor Mass
Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Phoenix | October 3, 2011
Johann Sebastian Bach wasn't the first composer to recycle previous material, but he might have been the first to put together his own greatest-hits album. Conceived in 1733, as an offering to the new Elector of Saxony, Bach's Mass in B minor wasn't completed till 1749, the year before his death, and he borrowed liberally from his cantatas and oratorios to create this affirmation of personal belief, a massive work spanning close to two hours (or more, if you're Otto Klemperer) more ...
Emmanuel brings mastery, if not mystery, to Bach's B minor Mass
Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe | September 27, 2011
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's B minor Mass are fairly rare. In Boston, however, rare is the season that passes without at least one opportunity to hear that monument. On Saturday, it was Emmanuel Music offering the Mass as its concert season opener, led by its director, Ryan Turner. And the performance demonstrated both the advantages of such familiarity and, perhaps, the dangers. more ...
Much More Than Justice For Bach's B-minor Mass
Cashman Kerr Prince, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | September 25, 2011
The nave of Emmanuel Church in Boston was filled on Saturday evening, September 24, for Emmanuel Music's presentation of Bach's B-minor Mass, BWV 23. TheMass is both a curiosity and a summation: the curiosity comes from a devout Lutheran writing a (not-quite Roman Catholic) Mass complete with Nicene Creed, a work the composer never heard performed; and a summation of the composer's career, encompassing self-citation, range of compositional and contrapuntal technique, as well as a devoted setting of the text of the mass which must clearly owe something to the composer's own religious feeling. more ...
No Idle Hands in Emmanuel's Excellent Rake
Geoffrey Weiting, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 19, 2011
Emmanuel Music ventured a bit off their "beaten path" on Saturday, April 16, presenting Igor Stravinsky's famed opera, The Rake's Progress, inspired by a series of paintings and engravings of that name by eighteenth-century artist William Hogarth. Ryan Turner expertly led a fine cast, orchestra, and chorus, and the performance was a virtually unqualified success. more ...
Honoring a lyrical lament of love lost
Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe | April 18, 2011
In the first act of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress,'' Tom Rakewell, a fledgling libertine, grieves for lost love. "How sad a song,'' a chorus of prostitutes replies, "but sadness charms.'' It took a little while, but Emmanuel Music's concert performance of the opera on Saturday night eventually achieved that balance of charismatic, exuberant woe. more ...
Emmanuel's Final Beethoven
Larry Phillips, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | March 3, 2011
The final Beethoven concert of the Emmanuel Music season took place in the Parish Hall of Emmanuel Church on the afternoon of Feb. 27. Unlike the others in this chamber music series, this one was all instrumental, taken from the composer's early years. In his introductory remarks, Emmanuel Music Director Ryan Turner explained that these pieces reflected different aspects of Beethoven's character: the street smart, the Mozartean, and the most popular piece in the composer's lifetime (even though he disparaged it.) more ...
Focus on Beethoven's Early Years in Vienna
Virginia Newes, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | February 15, 2011
The first of two concerts in Emmanuel Music's Sunday afternoon Winter Beethoven Chamber series, on February 13 in the Parish Hall at Emmanuel Church, was devoted to songs and chamber works from Beethoven's first years in Vienna. Having arrived there at the end of 1792, Beethoven set himself the task of mastering all the then-current musical genres. more ...
Attend the Service for Emmanuel's Bach Cantata
David Schulenberg, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | January 19, 2011
Boston's Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Newbury Street became famous among music lovers during the 1970s for the performances of Bach cantatas led by the late Craig Smith during its Sunday services. The tradition continues under Ryan Turner, Smith's successor as church Music Director and Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music, the church's resident ensemble. more ...
Harbison has faith in Bach translation
David Weininger, The Boston Globe | January 14, 2011
John Harbison's first experience of singing Bach cantatas came in the early 1960s, when he was a student in Berlin. There he sang with a church school choir called the Spandauer Kantorei and was an assistant to its director, Hanns-Martin Schneidt. Harbison remembers Schneidt's insistent focus on the cantatas' words, and the impression those words made on his fellow singers, all of whom spoke German as a native tongue. more ...
Unusual Beethoven at Emmanuel
Larry Phillips, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | November 17, 2010
Emmanuel Music presented their second Beethoven chamber series at Emmanuel Church on Sunday afternoon, November 14. In the words of Artistic Director Ryan Turner, this series is "somewhat chronological" and ended with the "recreational" Beethoven, selections from the Scottish songs, op. 108. more ...
Felicities and Gloomy Songs from Emmanuel
Larry Phillips, The Boston Musical Intelligencer | November 2, 2010
Emmanuel Music, under new artistic director Ryan Turner, began its chamber music series on Sunday afternoon, October 31, at Emmanuel Church. In a nod to the late Craig Smith, founder of Emmanuel Music, the concert featured early works by Beethoven surrounding the somber Gellert songs, when the composer was experiencing deafness. more ...
Alexander's Feast at Emmanuel, an Impressive
Introduction for Ryan Turner
Christopher Greenleaf, The Boston Music Intelligencer | November 17, 2010
After the shock of losing visionary founder Craig Smith in 2007, Emmanuel Music eyed its future with commendable restraint and, after a good think, placed the shaping of its course in the hands of another thinking man's choral conductor, Ryan Turner. more ...
Season Announcement
Emmanuel emerges from founder's shadow
David Weininger, Boston Globe | June 5, 2009
From its creation in 1970, Emmanuel Music has been associated inextricably with the artistic spirit of its founder, Craig Smith. Even after Smith's death, in 2007, his influence has lingered. The organization's last two seasons had been planned by Smith prior to his passing. more…
J.S. Bach - St. Matthew Passion
A mighty night for Emmanuel
Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe | April 4, 2009
Since Craig Smith's death in 2007, composer John Harbison has been in a caretaker role at Emmanuel Music, serving as acting artistic director. This season, Emmanuel has been honoring Smith's legacy with a series of Bach concerts culminating this weekend with two performances of the composer's mighty "St. Matthew Passion." more…
Lindsey Chapel Series: Bach's Cello Suites
Cello Mid-day Treats at Emmanuel
Larry Phillips, Boston Musical Intelligencer | April 3, 2009
Emmanuel Music gave the Boston musical community a splendid present by presenting all six Bach cello suites by different cellists in free midday concerts on successive Thursdays in Back Bay's intimate Leslie Lindsey Chapel. Performing between February 26 and April 2 were Rhonda Rider, Shannon Snapp, Joshua Gordon, Michael Curry, Beth Pearson, and Rafael Popper-Keizer. more…
A gold mine of six cello suites
David Weininger, Boston Globe | February 21, 2009 more...
Schumann Chamber Series: Final Year
Emmanuel Music Continues Schumann Concerts with Intensity, Balance, and Grace
David Griesinger, Boston Musical Intelligencer | February 2, 2009
This week's Schumann offering from Emmanuel Music, now in its fifth year of presenting all of Robert Schumann's compositions, featured two guest artists, Ya-Fei Chuang and Robert Levin, with Emmanue Music regulars. The program consisted of Wilhelm Meister Lieder, Op 98a, with Kendra Colton, soprano, Mark McSweeney, bass, and Ya-Fei Chuang, piano. It was followed by the composer's Toccata in C Major, Op. 7, Ya-Fei Chuang at the piano. The final piece was the Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63, with Rose Mary Harbison, violin, Rhonda Rider, cello, and Robert Levin, piano. more...
CD: Lorraine at Emmanuel
Jeremy Eichler's top CD picks of 2008
Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe | December 14, 2008
From the archives of Emmanuel Music comes this moving disc of performances by the revered mezzo-soprano, mostly led by the late Craig Smith, a pillar of the local music community. more...
J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concertos
Taking Bach in a clever direction
David Weininger, Boston Globe | September 20, 2008
Emmanuel Music's 2008-09 season is the last to have been planned by its late founder, Craig Smith, and is dedicated to his memory. Smith was not a man to do things halfway; comprehensiveness was his mantra. So it comes as little surprise that he would have programmed all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos for Thursday's opening-night concert. more...
Collaboration with Mark Morris Dance Group: Dido and Aenas
Morris's next step is with a baton
David Weininger, Boston Globe | May 23, 2008 more...
Bach: Mass in B minor
Emmanuel's Bach B-minor Mass
Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix | April 15, 2008 more...
Difficult season ends on the right note
David Weininger, Boston Globe | April 14, 2008 more...
Bach: St. John Passion
Great Gifts
Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix | March 12, 2008 more...
A Passion to rouse and soothe the spirit at a time of loss
David Perkins, Boston Globe | March 11, 2008 more...
A passion to carry on
After the death of founder Craig Smith, Emmanuel Music looks to the future
David Weininger, The Boston Globe | March 7, 2008 more...
Craig Smith Memorial
Recalling a conductor who built grandly at home
Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe | February 2, 2008 more...
Love and loss, Classical: 2007 in review
Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix | December 18, 2007 more...
Craig Smith, 60; with Emmanuel, he created a nexus of joy and music
Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe | November 15, 2007 more...
Russell Sherman: J.S. Bach – English Suites
Unconventional Bach of the highest order
David Weininger, Boston Globe | January 29, 2008 more...
Schumann Chamber Series, Year 4
A lovely showcase for Schumanns' work
David Perkins, Boston Globe | October 17, 2007 more...
Bach: Art of Fugue
The art of … Bach at Emmanuel
Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix | October 16, 2007 more...


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In the celebration of Hesperia's 25th Year as a City, a colorful assortment of vendors filled the Hesperia Lakes and Park Saturday and Sunday. Food vendors and carnival games entertained the large number of young families with children. If you strolled through the entire Park, you would have seen many small businesses shoulder-to-shoulder with non-profit and humanitarian groups.
One that caught my eye was the Wagon Wheel Ranch Foundation. These folks are working to bring awareness to children who are challenged by not being fully aware of their environment. With training at the ranch, the organization enhances the children's ability to understand and work with nature. They are combating a condition called Nature Deficit Disorder.
Children join a horse camp there and learn not only to ride, but care for the animals and accomplish tasks as a team. They have numerous activities that help strengthen their goal to interact with their environment and their community.
In keeping with these activities, Wagon Wheel Ranch is hosting a special event — Hands, Hearts & Horses — with animal chiropractor Dr. Rod Block. Block is a famous chiropractor to the animal stars and human celebrities of Hollywood. With 42 years of experience, he is offering class time with those who wish to understand animals, their energy, and how to understand them better.
Ever wanted to figure out the emotional and psychological components of your horse? Here's a chance to do that. A portion of proceeds from this one-day clinic will go to the Wagon Wheel Ranch Foundation to help them develop their programs. The date is this Saturday, Sept. 28th beginning at 9 am. Entry fee is $10 with additional fees for specific elements of the clinic. Call for clinic reservations if you wish to bring your horse for a session, too.
Opportunity Drawings will be held all day, and food
is available from Triple S Concessions. Call for directions to Wagon Wheel Ranch 760-389-2002, or email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or go on line to www.wagonwheelranchfoundation.net. The ranch is 3 miles south of Hesperia airport at 5676 Telephone Canyon Rd.
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Solo entrant in Bay City contest wins $2,000 package
Updated 2:45 pm, Thursday, January 7, 2016
BAY CITY (AP) — A man has won prizes worth nearly $2,000 after being the only person to enter a contest to celebrate Bay City's 150th anniversary.
MLive reports that Taylor Langstaff had to do 25 activities in the Bay City area and stamp them off on a "passport" to win the prizes.
The activities included seeing a show at The State Theatre, enjoying a beer at Tri-City Brewing Co. and going on a holiday tour of homes in Bay City's Historic District.
Langstaff's prizes included restaurant gift certificates, a yearlong membership to the Bay Area Family Y, Bay City-branded T-shirts and a four-person pass to sail aboard the Appledore IV tall ship.
Because Langstaff was the only entrant, he also received second through 10th place winner prizes. He's a native of the city and volunteers at the Bay County Historical Museum.
"I love Bay City so much that this was pretty easy," Langstaff said.
The passport and contest guidelines were sent out to residents in utility bills beginning in late May. Deputy City Manager Dana Muscott said this was to give residents time to complete activities in the summer, but said the long waiting period may have caused some people to forget to enter.
"If anything, people still got a great book showcasing everything you can do in Bay City," Muscott said.


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Although the effect's reminiscent of what dental tools would do to a gigantic block of marble, Bing and Yahoo continue to chip away at Google's lead in the search market, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. The two companies' combined market share increased 3.79 percent on a month-over-month basis.
That gave Bing and Yahoo a share of 28.48 percent in February, up from 27.44 percent in January. Google's market share, meanwhile, slipped from 67.95 percent to 66.69 percent, a relative decrease of 1.85 percent.
So again, Bing and Yahoo aren't ready to dethrone Google. But their progress is hard to deny. Their market shares have been climbing for several months now, and as the table below shows, Bing isn't just cannibalizing Yahoo's user base.
What's more, Experian Hitwise said in a statement, "Yahoo! Search and Bing achieved the highest success rates in February 2011. This means that for both search engines, more than 81 percent of searches executed resulted in a visit to a Website. Google achieved a success rate of 66 percent."
Finally - although it's hard to say what this will achieve - we'll point out that Internet Explorer 9 is supposed to grant users access to certain advanced features on Bing, and the search engine's market share could increase some more as a result.
Stay tuned, and we'll be sure to report on the March numbers as soon as they're available.


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Pemberton, a beautiful town with beautiful people and many beautiful birds & Lake Monger + Erick Street Beachfront, cool birds in the middle of the City
After all that fantastic birding and Bird-Photo adventures in Stirling and Cheynes, we were a bit concerned of having a bit too high expectations of the future… We couldn't be more mistaken!!!… Even before reaching the cute and friendly town of Perth (boy… I'll love to live there!), cool birds greeted us on the way… Including a big flock of -distant- Straw-necked Ibises in a grass field
October 21-23 – Pemberton – Glouchester Tree
Once in Pemberton with its relaxed and fresh mood, we decided to go shopping, make a BBQ and take it easy for the rest of the afternoon to recharge batteries for an early morning and more birds at the Gloucester Tree (a gigantic Karri tree in the Gloucester National Park, which at 72 meters tall, it is the world's highest fire-lookout tree, and visitors climb it up for an spectacular view)… Fortunately, a pair of neat looking -begging- Australian Ringnecks kept us busy and entertained during the early evening.
The gentile ladies at the Caravan Park had advised us of bringing some seeds for the birds and so we did. There was a funny sign at the entrance of the park stating that you shouldn't feed the birds inside the park and only do it in the parking lot area (which is 50 steps away from the famous tree). I got a bunch of seeds in my hand, aiming to place then near a nice perch for the photo, but I never made it that far… It was overwhelming!… lots of birds from several species landing on my arms, shoulders and head, soon made us realize we were in a Bird-Photo Paradise!!!
The challenge was to get a bird posing on an actual nice perch, as they clearly preferred the seeds that people had to offer in hand… I had to work quite a bit for a few frames on natural looks
Parrots were the most represented and colorful on the spot, however, some other birds taking part on the seeds feast, looked good and came closer from time to time… One that I really enjoyed was the Common Bronzewing… what an incredible pigeon with these crazy metallic flashes on its wings!… Australian brand indeed!
Finally -when the parking area was a bit too crowded- I decided to walk a bit around and quickly got rewarded with a few lifers, including a new Fairy-wren (Red-winged) and the tiny, elusive but extremely desired Spotted Pardalote!
We left Pemberton a couple of days later, but part of my heart stayed there forever…
On the way to Perth we "had to" stop a few times for great sights on the roadside… One of the best was the Nankeen Kestrel, which -although quite far away- marveled us for a while on the windy afternoon
Once back at the Capital of WA, we did several one day rides to lakes and parks within range with no disappointments…
October 23-24 – Perth – Erick Street & Lake Monger
At Erick Street we enjoyed the noisy roost of hundreds of Rainbow Lorikets, the grace of the Black-shouldered Kite in flight and a colorful sunset with icecream on hand!
Next day, we visited Lake Monger and resumed to enjoyed and photograph loads of good looking waterfowl.
Many birds here called my attention as Harhead, Purple Swamphen -with chicks-, Musk Duck and Western Corellas
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Next week, final chapter 4… Penguins Island and Herdsman Lake
Happy Bird-Photo Adventures!


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Last week during the group meeting we talked about a pre-print publication from the Ippolito group in Austin TX (here). The authors were monitoring the antibody repertoire from Bone Marrow Plasma Cells (80% of circulating abs) over a period of 6.5 years. For comparison they have monitored another individual over the period of 2.3 years. In a nutshell, the paper is like Picture 1 — just with antibodies
The main question that they aimed to answer was: 'Is the Human Antibody repertoire stable over time'? It is plausible to think that there should be some 'ground distribution' of antibodies that are present over time which act as a default safety net. However we know that the antibody makeup can change radically especially when challenged by antigen. Therefore, it is interesting to ask, does the immune repertoire maintain a fairly stable distribution or not?
Firstly, it is necessary to define what we consider a stable distribution of the human antibody repertoire. The antibodies undergo the VDJ recombination as well as Somatic Hypermutation, meaning that the >10^10 estimated antibodies that a human is capable of producing have a very wide possible variation. In this publication the authors mostly focused on addressing this question by looking at how the usage of possible V, D and J genes and their combinations changes over time.
Seven snapshots of the immune repertoire were taken from the individual monitored over 6.5 years and two from the individual monitored over 2.3 years. Looking at the usage of the V, D and J genes over time, it appears that the proportion in each of the seven time points appears quite stable (Pic 2). Authors claim similar result looking at the combinations. This would suggest that our antibody repertoire is biased to sample 'similar' antibodies over time. These frequencies were compared to the individual who was sampled over the period of 2.3 years and it appears that the differences might not be great between the two.
It is a very interesting study which hints that we (humans) might be sampling the antibodies from a biased distribution — meaning that our bodies might have developed a well-defined safety net which is capable of raising an antibody towards an arbitrary antigen. It is an interesting starting point and to further check this hypothesis, it would be necessary to carry out such a study on multiple individuals (as a minimum to see if there are really no differences between us — which would at the same time hint that the repertoire do not change over time).


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July 2016 - Riviera to Europe - Western Mediterranean
Riviera Cruise July 2016 - Positives and Negatives
We have been on 18 cruises with 7 different cruise lines. We have experience!
The itinerary, room attendants, service, accommodations, and dining were excellent.
Unfortunately we encountered 2 negatives, which significantly decreased our rating for this cruise. We took 6 excursions, all sponsored by the Oceania Riviera. On 3 excursions the guide was either inaudible, or even worse, not able to speak fluent English. The other major issue for us was the timing of the daily evening show/production. Normally, on other ships, there are 2 show times to accommodate all guests. On this cruise, only one show time, at 9:45 PM, which is too late for us. Maybe okay for night owls.


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Gallery of Coops
The chixrus's Coop!
Good weather chicken coop. A concrete bottom. It can houses fifty standard size birds. Chicken can come and go day and night. Sturdy wood construction.
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Tin roof chicken coop!
This chicken coop is bird friendly as the owner wished to incorporate a special place bluebirds could come and visit. Its a relaxing and hopefully happy environment for the chickens the owner says it reminds him of his childhood.
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Cowboy Joe's Chicken Coop
This chicken coop is a simple breeder pen made around an aluminum cookie sheet. It is a wonderful little pen for small birds. Made with hand tools it was easy to put together. The eggs are very easy to remove.
Look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/cowboy-joes-chicken-coop
Cluck Castle
This is a cute chicken coop styled as a castle with brick walls almost like a fortress any chicken will love to be in. Its super cute with drawstrings and wood this castle will sure to delight any chicken living inside. The coop has a simple wooden form and plastic roof and it was under one hundred dollars to make.
Look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/cluck-castle
Mini Yellow Coop!
This mini coop is fun and it looks very easy to make of material you may have lying around and it is very inexpensive.
Look at this cute coop here: https://survivalfarm.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/diy-build-your-new-chicken-coop.
Chicken Egg Coop
This is a cute and colorful chicken coop with an egg attacked. Looks very easy to maintain.
check it out here: http://inspirationsdeco.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/le-design-du-poulailler.html
Cute Vintage Metal Signs for Backyard Chicken Coops
When it comes to decorating your backyard chicken coop, these vintage-style metal signs are sure to delight!
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1) "Chicken Coop Rules"
Many cute chicken saying in just one sign!
2) "Wicked Chickens"
Are your chickens a little naughty? This sign is sure to make people laugh!
3) "Fresh Eggs"
We love the simple, colorful yet retro design of this metal sign.
4) "Chicken Xing"
A "must have" sign in our book!
5) "Keep the Gate Closed"
Sure to bring some laughs, while reminding visitors of the need to keep chickens safe.
You can see many more vintage and metal chicken coop signs on our Chicken Coop Sign Page!
Horse Stall Coop
If you own a horse barn and also want a place to keep chickens warm and dry, this is a great idea for you. It's also really easy to maintain and keep up. This design even has an automatic door opener. Check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/horse-stall-to-easy-maintenance-coop-good-ideas-for-any-coop.
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The Chicken Barrel Coop
What a clever design! This coop is very easy to make and anyone interested in a safe and easy way to raise chickens can make this coop easily at home. The instructions can be found here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/thinmantiss-chicken-coop-tractor.
The Wee Kirk Coop
This is a nice coop in the backyard and they seem to have lots of space for the chickens to run and enjoy live.
check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-wee-kirk-coop.
Girls Summer Home
This all white chicken coop is a medium sized coop that can hold up to seven chickens at a time. It has three nesting boxes and a cute little sign. It comes with a copula and storage in the back and it also has vent air holes for air circulation in the coop.
Look at this fun coop here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-girls-summer-home.
Solar Chicken House
What a wonderful little chicken coop! It is made from all recycled materials such as windows and doors, and hinges to make the perfect chicken coop. It has a concrete floor to make the coop more weather friendly.
Check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/solar-chicken-house.
Chicken Coop With View
This chicken coop has 36 nesting boxes and a view thats sure to please any backyard chicken. There is also plenty of storage inside the coop.It is made from all recycled materials.
Here is the coop: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/quinaults-chicken-coop.
Schoolhouse Themed Coop!
This schoolhouse is simply amazing with brilliant colors and a safe area for chickens to roam. Offers room to a large amount of chickens. A thick concrete floor and cute little sign on the door. It has simple corrugated steel sheets for roofing.
Look at it here: http://www.architectmom.com/2013/04/the-third-cutest-chicken-coop-in-the-universe.
White Chicken Coop
This brilliantly made chicken coop is rich with style and color and its all made from scratch. With plenty of room and a cute little yard I am sure the chickens must enjoy it.
Look at this creative coop here: http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2013/10/15/our-coop-the-building-process.
The Breakfast Club
Fun chicken coop made from stained wood nice and solid and it has L-brackets inside to hang for feeding or giving water to the chickens when it gets cold outside.
Come and check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-breakfast-club-in-western-nc.
Recycled Wooden Coop
It easy to see how you can build your own coop with recycled wood around the house by looking at this amazing coop.
Look at it here: http://www.lifeasaschoolhouse.com/2012/11/a-cheapskate-goat-and-chicken-house.html.
Vintage Mini Market Coop
This hen house is so cute and stylish it looks like its just out of an old movie and so much fun to look at.
Check it out here: http://www.attagirlsays.com/2013/06/10/announcing-carolina-vintage-mini-market.
Blue Coop
This chicken coop is both easy to make and affordable and will be the perfect coop for your chickens to nest in.
Look at it here: http://ana-white.com/2012/05/plans/shed-chicken-coop.
Artsy Hen House
This small wood Hen House has a cute roof and simply design to please any chicken. This cute chicken house has six nests and a steeped roof that's great for ventilation and amazing custom stained glass windows,
Check this house out here: http://jeffreybalaschak-artisanofwood.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicken-coop.html
In The Norway Pines Coop
Chickens live in this unusual colorful coop filled with color and space. Cute rustic feeling and bright red door include.
Look at this fun coop here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/in-the-norway-pines-coop.
Monk's Chicken Coop
This chicken coop is very sturdy and will work well in both harsher and warmer climates. The roof is solid and there is enough space for chickens to run around comfortable.
Look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/monks-chicken-coop.
Amish Hen House
This wooden hen house is easy to set up and move around. Would be a lovely addition to any yard.
You can see it here: http://howtomakechickencoop.com/basics-of-how-to-build-a-chicken-house
Poop Coop
What an unusual and funny coop. Chickens can lay their eggs and live inside. It looks cozy and warm.
Look at it here: http://www.recyclart.org/2013/02/poop-coop
A Coop with Personality
This chicken coop has a lot of charm. With bright colors and rustic signs included.
Look at it here: http://www.infarrantlycreative.net/5-ways-to-build-a-backyard-chicken-coop
Trampoline Chicken Coop!
An amazing reusable product that can be brought back to life by taking an old trampoline and making it into a new and creative chicken coop, This coop is sturdy and fun and large enough that the chickens have a lot of space to roam around and they will feel both safe and at home inside their new living quarters.
Check it out here: http://theownerbuildernetwork.co/easy-diy-projects/diy-trampoline-chicken-coop
TimM's medium coop
This medium sized chicken coop has a simple yet structurally sound design. It is made from wood and has a cute layout with nesting boxes included on the side.
Take a look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/timms-medium-coop
This converted coop is sturdy and can hold up to three hens. Well structured and insulated. It also has a nest box and is weatherproof. Not bad for an inexpensive coop that will hold up against bad weather and age and best of all it looks easy to maintain.
Check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/new-coop-1.
Beach Hens Million Dollar Digs
Such a cool hen house with electric lanterns that frame hinged roof and a nice hanging plant and string of lights-lined front porch. What an amazing hen house.
Look at this hen house here: http://www.homejelly.com/hens-housed-million-dollar-digs.
Earth Shattered Coop
This coop is well isolated to protect against harsh elements and bad weather. Overall I think this is a perfect coop for colder climates to keep hens warm.
Check this interesting coop out here: http://www.permies.com/t/3978/chickens/Earth-sheltered-chicken-coop.
Winter Hen Coop
This coop is built for winter and is solid. Hens will stay very warm inside.
Look at it here: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2005/12/12/winter-hen-coop.
Vintage Coop
This is a cute all wooden coop made from ceder wood. Nice little brick walkway and peach tree in front.
Look at it here: http://ourvintagehomelove.blogspot.com/2013/04/our-new-coop.html.
Geodesic Homes
Fun coop that hens will love to go into and a nice little coop for security and safety. More environmentally safe then some other coops.
School Bus Coop
This is a cute coop made from a recycled remade school bus. Its charming and a nice place for the chickens to live.
Look at it here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/positively-dreamy-chicken-coops#.dtM3VG68D.
The Chicken Monster Coop
This chicken coop can be cleaned easily and has a lot of space inside. It is nice and tall and looks like it would be nice in any backyard.
Glance at it here: http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/animals/chickens-poultry/5-fun-chicken-coop-designs.
Urbanmama's A-Frame Chicken Coop
This white chicken coop has a little ramp leading up to it and a back door. It has both chicken wire and a place for chickens to rest. It is a very large yet inexpensive coop.
Look at this amazing design here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/urbanmamas-a-frame-chicken-coop.
Virginia Woodland Coop
Fun little coop made up of all wood and recycled lumber. What a fun little project. The rear of the coop has a southern exposure and will have windows for catching the winter sun's rays.
Check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/virginia-woodland-coop.
Backyard Sanctuary
Wow what an inspiring coop idea and plan. Looks like something out of a romantic scene from a movie put out a patio table and flowers and you have the whole deal. I know the chickens must love living in this coop. I think all the flowers are so pretty.
Check it out here: http://www.countryliving.com/life/g1883/best-chicken-coops/?slide=9.
Pretty in Pink
This is a larger wooden coop painted a pretty pink color. Lots of room for the chickens to run around and be safe. Fenced in nesting area for added protection. I love it and it has enough room for quite a few chickens.
Look at this amazing coop here: http://www.countryliving.com/life/g1883/best-chicken-coops/?slide=8.
Bursts of Blooms
Pretty little green chicken coop with flowers in the yard makes for a fun Spring coop.
Look at it here: http://www.countryliving.com/life/g1883/best-chicken-coops/?slide=5.
Chicken Coop With Large Run
This wooden coop has a larger run attached to it and looks very easy to make. I love the larger run.
Check out this coop here: http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/chicken-coop-pics.
The Brick Chick House
This chicken house was all restructured and made of brick. Its a building that has been remade into a coop a work in progress that will sure to delight all chickens living there.
Look at this brick coop here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-brick-chick-house-westtexasfarmboys-chicken-coop.
Ddrlonghorns's Chicken Coop
Wow just look at this amazing chicken coop. It has so much space and is such a lovely design. Includes nesting boxes and a mesh covering. It has tow water feeders and sp much space for strage and for the chickens to run around!
Look at this wonderful coop here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/ddrlonghornss-chicken-coop.
McTee's Chuck-Chuck House
This is a wonderful chicken coop with space and a very modern look about it. It has shade netting and a wonderful enclosed area for the chickens to use.
Look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mctees-chuck-chuck-house-rchuckss-chicken-coop.
Horse Trailer to Chicken Coop Conversion
This is an easy solution fix as its wonderful for the chickens to live in and be movable. I love how easily they changed it into a new fresh hen house. This has a lot of space and character included.
Take a look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/horse-trailer-to-chicken-coop-conversion.
Dutch Hollow Hoop Coop
This is a well organized coop.Large, light weight and very easy to move with only one person making it wonderful for any outdoors space. It only costs about $200 to make which means its very affordable!
Check out this simple yet amazing coop here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/dutch-hollow-hoop-coop.
Colorful Coops
These coops seem to have a lot of room and the chickens must adore the space they live in. Included is even a run to help keep them safe and sound.
Check this coop out here: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20235479_20532035,00.html.
The Chicken Village!
Just check out this chicken village its like having a chicken town how original and cute.
Look at it here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-chicken-village.
The Concord Cluckers Coop
This cute coop has flower boxes and has a nice little red window trim. It is built nice and snug off the ground and away from predators. Check out the inside and the amazing run attached. These chickens look healthy and happy.
Check it out here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/concord-cluckers-coop.


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LANDER, Wyo. – Scott Smail couldn't remember the last time he felt comfortable in a church.
The horseshoer felt alienated at new-age churches, where he couldn't relate to the sermons, didn't know the songs and everyone dressed up.
But on Sunday, April 1, Smail, in Carhartts and a camouflage hat, entered an old wooden building, actually part of the American Museum of the West, where 25 others had gathered for cowboy church. Smail felt at ease.
Cowboy churches started as a way to remove barriers that kept people away from fellowship and worship, said Allen Upshaw, pastor of Lander's new church, which officially started March 18.
Despite its name, the cowboy church brings in people from all walks of life, from bikers to artists.
"It's the misfits and fringe of society that feel they don't fit into traditional church," Upshaw said.
The church is part of the Southern Baptist organization, although it is nondenominational. The services are nothing like traditional Southern Baptist ones, which are much more rigid, Upshaw said.
It's open to anyone, but targets the working cowboy and cowboys at heart.
Last Sunday, Upshaw greeted church-goers in his black cowboy hat, boots and large belt buckle. Set in the historic-looking museum village, the church was built in 1909 and originated in nearby Hudson.
The vaulted interior is simple, with only stained glass for decorations and a wooden cross in the front. The wood floor, easy to clean, creaks when people move and reverberates when people tap their feet to the music.
The church program directs people to the large John Deere bucket in the back if they wish to leave donations. There is no collection plate passed during service. Nor is there communion.
"I don't save anybody," Upshaw said. "My job is to create an environment where people will stick around long enough that God can work on 'em."
Upshaw moved to Lander from Texas on Dec. 19 when the American Fellowship of Cowboy Churches sent him to start a church, the first affiliated with the organization in Wyoming.
Upshaw has always been a church-going man, but often felt different churches forced the "Bible" to fit their message, he said.
Friends told Upshaw and his wife about cowboy church when they lived in Texas. The Upshaws checked it out. The sincerity and simplicity of the church resonated with Upshaw. Despite its almost 3,000 people, he was greeted with a firm handshake and direct eye contact. The couple became regulars.
Upshaw offered his background in business to help the church. Soon, though, he felt he wanted to serve in a different capacity. The growing church needed pastors. Upshaw volunteered.
"That sure just came from a place deep inside me," Upshaw said. "I was sure. Absolutely 100 percent certain I was sure that way was my path."
He didn't receive any formal pastoral training. It's been a learning process as he's moved forward. Last Sunday, midway through "Amazing Grace," Upshaw remembered to rouse the congregation to its feet to sing.
As he's learning to lead a church, Upshaw is also learning about the cowboy way of life. Since relocating to Lander, he's helped move cows and even rode a horse.
Somewhere he has a picture of himself at 4 years old climbing out of a bath tub with only a gun belt and cowboy hat on. He's always loved and admired the cowboy culture, he said. "It's in my blood."
On April 1, Upshaw instructed the congregation to "bellow this one out" when they sang "Onward Christian Soldiers," accompanied by an electric keyboard.
The music at the church is mostly old-time gospel and country-Western gospel that people might listen to on their own, he said.
Hats come off only at the end of the service for a parting prayer, before the congregation sings "Happy Trails."


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May 2015 - Carnival Triumph to Caribbean - Western
My wife and I took our first cruise. It was a six day cruise, We dock at two ports.
The cruise was great. We had a ocean view room. The room was fantastic. All the food was delicious. It was a fun trip/experience. Linda and I can't wait to do another cruise with Carnival.