Here's the original post that first grabbed my attention:
On Saturday evening, November 17, George Steel and the Vox Vocal Ensemble presented another of their concerts devoted to the music of Robert Parsons, an English Renaissance composer, at The Church of St. Mary the Virgin in NYC's Times Square area. Steel has undertaken a special effort in the case of Parsons (c. 1530-1572), highly esteemed in his time but rather neglected since, not least because of his early accidental death, which prevented the production of what would surely have been a large array of choral masterpieces had he lived a "normal" life span.
Parsons falls between the two major figures of his era, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, being influenced by the first and influencing the second. He was intimately involved in the activities of the Chapel Royal in London, knew and collaborated with all the major musicians there, and -- in common with Tallis and Byrd -- managed to swing with the winds of religious change, producing sacred works for both the Catholic and Protestant rites in both Latin and English.
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