The word "Norumbega" is an interesting one, said to be a Native American noun derived from a scrambling of "Norvega," taken to mean the land from which the Vikings came. Norumbega Harmony is a singing group founded at Wellesley College in 1976 by Stephen Marini that has conducted a weekly meeting for the past 30 years to explore the vast repertoire of New England and Southern Singing School music both new and old. While New World's Sweet Seraphic Fire is the third recording made by Norumbega Harmony, it is the first to ...
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The word "Norumbega" is an interesting one, said to be a Native American noun derived from a scrambling of "Norvega," taken to mean the land from which the Vikings came. Norumbega Harmony is a singing group founded at Wellesley College in 1976 by Stephen Marini that has conducted a weekly meeting for the past 30 years to explore the vast repertoire of New England and Southern Singing School music both new and old. While New World's Sweet Seraphic Fire is the third recording made by Norumbega Harmony, it is the first to receive any distribution outside the immediate parlance of Norumbega Harmony themselves. Drawn from the group's 2003 published collection The Norumbega Harmony, Sweet Seraphic Fire contains a staggering 35 pieces mostly concentrated in the "golden age" of the American singing school, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. However, it also includes some pieces from the slightly later Sacred Harp tradition and a few pieces written within this style in the 1990s.For those used...
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