Passionate Pilgrim
Baroque-instrument song cycle on a poem collection once misattributed to Shakespeare.
Part of the Oracle Hysterical family
Premiere — New Vintage Baroque · White Box Gallery, NYC, premiere · 2015-05-08
A song cycle set to The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of poems published under Shakespeare’s name in 1599 — most of which turned out not to be his. Oracle Hysterical wrote the music; New Vintage Baroque, a Juilliard-trained period ensemble, played it on historical instruments. The result sits between indie rock and Baroque chamber song.
We played it live from 2015 and released it as an album on VIA Records / Naxos in 2017. The New Yorker described it as “what it would sound like if Belle and Sebastian were to cut a record of Baroque-inspired folk songs.” The Wall Street Journal called it “music that is unstuck in time.”
Music that is unstuck in time. Wall Street Journal
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Press
What it would sound like if Belle and Sebastian were to cut a record of Baroque-inspired folk songs. The New Yorker
It may not be Shakespeare — but it's poetry, through and through. Second Inversion , 2017-04-03
Performances
3 performances since 2015
- 2017-01-21 Elliot Cole with Oracle Hysterical / New Vintage Baroque National Sawdust, Brooklyn NY
- 2015-05-09 New Vintage Baroque House concert, Soho
- 2015-05-08 New Vintage Baroque White Box Gallery, NYC, premiere