Sequentia offers gold-toned `Ordo Virtutem'

From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 7, 1998| Author: Richard Dyer, Globe Staff | Copyright information

SEQUENTIA Presented by the Boston Early Music Festival At: the Church of the Advent, last night (repeats tonight)

When Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton, founders and artistic directors of the medieval-music ensemble Sequentia, formulated a proposal to perform and record Hildegard von Bingen's "Ordo Virtutem" back in 1980, they probably had no idea that the resulting realization of one of the world's oldest music dramas would become their greatest popular success. "Ordo Virtutem" st...

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