Music Review: Early Music Finds Its Future in NYC at St. Jean Baptiste Church

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By JAMES R. OESTREICH

Scott Metcalfe conducting the vocal ensemble Tenet at St. Jean Baptiste Church as part of Early Music Festival: NYC.

NEW YORK---The new Early Music Festival: NYC, which ended last week, gives reason for cautious hope. It has powerfully influenced the classical music mainstream with its concern for period style: its ethic of exploring the ways music might have been performed, and the meanings it might have held in its time; its use of — its very need for — improvisation and conjecture to fill in the gaps of sketchy sources and scores and breathe new life into age-old obscurities. [link]