Nashville Early Music Ensemble at First Presbyterian Church

The Nashville Early Music Ensemble will be performing at the First Presbyterian Church, 801 South High Street, in Columbia at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 10.

The ensemble performs the vocal and instrumental music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods as well as traditional folk music from several world cultures. The twenty-five-member ensemble features musicians with diverse music backgrounds but all with experience in early music. The instruments featured in the concert will be viols, violins, lute, ud, rebec, guitars, psaltery, harps, recorders, and a variety of percussion. The director of the ensemble is Dr. Gerald Moore, a retired music professor from Lipscomb University, who taught music theory and directed the Lipscomb Early Music Consort for over twenty-five years.

The NEME will be presenting a Valentine Concert She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, with songs about love and lost love. The concert will feature music from such countries as Croatia, England, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Spain, and Turkey, and will include madrigals, folk songs, dance songs, music from a Shakespeare play, and an Irish drinking song.

The concert is free and open to the public and will be one in a series of concerts hosted by the church. For more information about the First Presbyterian Church, visit the church's web site: http://www.1stprescolumbia.org/

Location(links to Mapquest map - you can get more directions if needed)
The church is located in downtown Columbia at the corner of W. 7th and High Streets. Since there are several churches nearby, look for the church with the dome on top.

Parking
Parking is available on W. 7th St. to the east (the courthouse side) of the church, and also on High Street behind the church. The W. 7th St. lot leads to an elevator entrance with access to all levels of the church.

Pictures and Video from the Dec. 4 Concert at Christ Church Cathedral

Click on any of the thumbnails to enlarge the photos.

(concert flyer)

Concert Videos
(Click on the song title to view the video on YouTube)

~ Prophecy and Advent ~

01 Quicumque Christum queritis -- Colonial Mexico
02 Consolaos, pueblo mío -- Mexican American
03 El Dios de paz -- Guatemala
04 Hanacpachap cussicuinin -- Juan Pérez Bocanegra, Peru

~ Mary and Joseph ~

05 Hacia Belén se encamina -- Lutheran, Mexico
06 Asi asdando -- Tomás Pascual, Guatemala
07 Teponazcuicatl -- Aztec Processional

~ Shepherds and Magi ~

08 Los magos que llegaron a Belén -- Puerto Rico (video missing)
09 En la noche los pastores -- Guatemala
10 Vamos, pastorcitos -- Colombia
11 Los tres santos reyes -- Puerto Rico

~ The Manger ~

12 En el Portal Belén -- Puerto Rico
13 Ha nacido en un portal -- Chile
14 A la media noche -- Puerto Rico

~ The Child ~

15 Llegó la nochebuena -- Argentina
16 Niño lindo -- Venezuela
17 A la nanita nana -- Cuba

~ Celebration and Finale ~

18 Pastores, dicite, quidnam vidistis? -- Cristóbal de Morales, Spain

19 El cielo canta -- Argentina

Nashville Early Music Ensemble at Christ Church Cathedral

The recently formed Nashville Early Music Ensemble will perform at Christ Church Cathedral at 900 Broadway in Downtown Nashville on Tuesday, December 4, at 8:00 p.m.

The ensemble is designed to perform the vocal and instrumental music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods as well as traditional folk music from several world cultures. The twenty-member ensemble features musicians with diverse music backgrounds but all with experience in early music. The instruments featured in the concert will be viols, violin, rebec, lute, ud, guitars, psaltery, harp, recorders, and a wide variety of percussion. The director is Dr. Gerald Moore, a retired music professor from Lipscomb University, who taught music theory and directed the Lipscomb Early Music Consort for over twenty-five years.

The NEME will be presenting Feliz Navidad Canciónes de América Latina with twenty selections from several Latin American cultures. Featured in the concert will be carols, folk songs, motets, and processional songs from such countries and cultures as Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

The concert will open with a measured chant from Colonial Mexico "Quicumque Christum queritis." Also included in the program in celebration of Christmas will be an Aztec drum processional "Teponazcuicatl" and a Lutheran hymn "Hacia Belén se encamina." The concert will close with an Argentinian carol "El cielo canta."

For ticket information call (615)255-7729.

Click Here for the Church's website.
Click Here for a map to the church.

Additional Upcoming Concert:

The NEME will be presenting a Valentine concert, She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not at the 1st Presbyterian Church in Columbia, TN, at 3:00, on Sunday, February 10. The concert is free and open to the public.

Pictures of the October 2007 Parthenon Concert

Copyright Pam Reeves and Rick Lambert.

The photo above is the official Ensemble photo taken before the concert. Click on any photo to enlarge. If you were at the concert and have some pictures you would like to share, contact us and we will put them online.




Concert videos are coming Soon!

Nashville Early Music Ensemble to Premier at the Parthenon

The newly formed Nashville Early Music Ensemble will give its premier performance at the Parthenon on Tuesday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

The ensemble is designed to perform the vocal and instrumental music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods as well as traditional ethnic folk music from many world cultures. The twenty-member ensemble features musicians with diverse music backgrounds but all with experience in early music. The instruments featured in the concert will be viols, violin, rebec, lute, ud, guitars, psaltery, harp, recorders, and a wide variety of percussion. The director is Dr. Gerald Moore, a retired music professor from Lipscomb University, who taught music theory and directed the Lipscomb Early Music Consort for over twenty-five years.

The NEME will be presenting Music from the Age of Discovery with Nineteen selections from the 15th and 16th Centuries. Featured in the concert will be courtly music of Italy and Spain, and popular songs of the Sephardic Jews, the Moors, and cultures from the New World.

The concert opens with an Italian piece "Ayo visto lo mappamundi" which describes the map of the known world in the late 15th Century. "Una sañosa porfia" expresses the laments of the Moors as they experience their defeat militarily to the forces of the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. "Cuando el rey Nimrod" is a Sephardic folk song which commemorates the birth of Father Abraham. The concert ends with "Oy comamos y bebamos," a lively Spanish piece expressing the joy which comes with singing, drinking, and feasting. It ends with the line, 'We fill our bellies and cram full the skin.'

The concert is free and open to the public.

For directions to the Parthenon, Click Here.

Upcoming Concerts

Feliz Navidad Canciónes de America
Christ Church Cathedral
900 Broadway, Downtown Nashville
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, at 8:00 p.m.

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
First Presbyterian Church
Columbia, TN
Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3:00 p.m.