Of course, there was no such thing as a Christmas pageant during the Middle Ages, although pageantry was alive and well. The biblical events preceding and following the nativity — The Annunciation to ...

Several Consort members double on the medieval instruments that include trumpets, harp, recorder, shawn, psaltery and rauschpfeife, a double-reed instrument preceding the oboe. Along with a nun’s ...

Music performed by one of America's leading early music ensembles, The Waverly Consort, is presented on this Continuum. Three of their CDs are featured, presenting music from the Cantigas de Santa ...

The Waverly Consort’s “Christmas Story” digs into the past, finds great drama there and ends with a glorious blessing. Sung and enacted Sunday afternoon in the soaring Gothic-inspired confines of ...

Some honor that history by retelling the story of Christ s birth. Others decorate with ornaments that have been passed down through generations. Michael Jaffee celebrates with music really old music.

Michael Jaffee’s veteran ensemble traces its heritage back to the mid-nineteen-sixties, the early days of New York’s early-music movement. Its holiday presentation brings the Nativity story to life by ...

Medieval European works may get short shrift in today’s music scene, but at least around the holidays, early-music fanatics can turn to the Waverly Consort, the New York–based ensemble that has ...