Songs without Words

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A genre-defying album of torchsongs – transformed. - Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century songs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into the 20th Century with torch songs and jazz standards arranged and improvised by the ensemble. Music by baroque composers Lambert, Lully, and Marais is heard alongside tunes by Nina Simone, Errol Garner, Edith Piaf, and others in this program of timeless melodies and inspired improvisations. Cleveland’s Plain Dealer commented, “Mixing old and new numbers freely, the ensemble liberated the music of ...

Read More both eras, creating a kind of conversation across the centuries.” Creating Songs without Words has been an incredible journey. What started out as an opportunity to reestablish a 17th-century solo repertory for woodwinds became so much more when w

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