Artiste: Debra Nagy

“In order to play dance pieces correctly, you must learn to dance it.” Thus spoke my recorder teacher this past Friday. A tall order, considering that Baroque dance has become a specialized and rarely-performed art inaccessible to most people.

To accompany the exhibition “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” the early music ensemble TENET held court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a lovely concert of musical portraits from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The US Early Music ensemble Les Délices are embarking on a new season of concerts streaming online. Director Debra Nagy talks about the season, and her particular fascination with the music of Guillaume de Machaut.