Safford Cape (28 June 1906 - 26 March 1973) was an American
conductor
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,
composer and
musicologist
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.
Born and educated in
Denver
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,
Colorado
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, Cape moved to
Belgium
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in 1925 to further his studies in composition and musicology.
[ From 1933, after a few years of chamber music composition, Cape began focusing on the performance of medieval and Renaissance music.][ To this end, he founded and conducted the Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels, an ensemble specialising on music from the medieval and Renaissance periods.][ This group toured throughout Europe and the Americas and produced many recordings.][ Cape's work inspired ]Noah Greenberg
Noah Greenberg (April 9, 1919 – January 9, 1966) was an American choral conductor.
Greenberg was born in the Bronx. In 1937, aged 18, he joined the Socialist Workers Party of Max Shachtman, and worked as a lathe operator and party activist. He ...
to form a similar ensemble in America, the New York Pro Musica which was recorded first by EMS Recordings EMS Recordings was founded in 1949 by Jack Skurnick in New York City. The company won first prize at the Audio Fair of 1950 for the high quality and interest of its recordings. It issued the first recording of works of Edgard Varese.
Skurnick's p ...
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External links
A partial discography at medieval.org
References
1906 births
1973 deaths
American male conductors (music)
American male composers
American performers of early music
20th-century American composers
20th-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American male musicians
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