Barbara Thornton (January 6, 1950 – November 8, 1998) was an American singer, musicologist, and groundbreaking performer of medieval music.
Thornton, described as “one of the most eminent medieval voices of our time”,[1] was born in Summit, New Jersey and educated at Sarah Lawrence College, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 1977, she founded the ensemble Sequentia with Benjamin Bagby in Basel. They moved to Cologne that same year, where they lived and worked together for 21 years.[2]
Sequentia has released many fine recordings, most of them on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.[3] In 1982, the group began to stage Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, which proved so successful, both in concert and on record, that they undertook to record all of Hildegard's musical output—a project completed in 1998 for the celebration of the abbess's 900th birthday.[1] The group has also performed music written in the 12th century from the musical centers Santiago de Compostela, Aquitaine, and Notre Dame.
Thornton died in Cologne on November 8, 1998, at the age of 48, after having suffered for a number of years from an inoperable brain tumour.[4]
BarbaraThornton (January 6, 1950 – November 8, 1998) was an American singer, musicologist, and groundbreaking performer of medieval music. Thornton, described...
by the early medieval music specialists and founders of Sequentia, BarbaraThornton and her husband Benjamin Bagby. It was recorded between 16 and 21 June...
Schola Cantorum in Basel, Bagby founded the ensemble Sequentia with BarbaraThornton in 1977. This group takes an innovative approach to medieval repertoires...
Philippe de Vitry. Motets & Chansons. Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby and BarbaraThornton, dir.) Freiburg: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1991. CD recording 77095-2-RC...
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Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. The Electric State is scheduled to be released by Netflix in 2024. A girl...
conductor – Evocation of the Spirit (Robert Shaw Festival Singers) BarbaraThornton, conductor – Hildegard Von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy (Sequentia)...
children being harassed. Principal BarbaraThornton said the FFA had "launched a vicious attack against our students." Thornton also noted that despite their...
C. on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1992. Directed by Benjamin Bagby & BarbaraThornton. The Huelgas Ensemble, which was founded by Paul Van Nevel, has performed...
unintended effect and only strengthened the club, according to Principal BarbaraThornton who told The New York Times, "We found it a good thing he brought the...
older sister David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown Elliott Fullam as Jonathan, Sienna's younger brother Sarah Voigt as Barbara, mother of Sienna and Jonathan...
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have included such musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Jordi Savall, BarbaraThornton, Christina Pluhar, Elam Rotem, Jorge Guerrero Dantur and Benjamin Bagby...
she released the vocal album, In Our Voices. In 2002, Smiley won the BarbaraThornton Memorial Scholarship for Medieval Music, given by the Sequentia Ensemble...
1970), second tenor Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970) and baritone Kevin Thornton (born June 17, 1969). Color Me Badd broke up in 1998 before reuniting in...
Binkley from 1978-1981 was active with Sequentia of Benjamin Bagby and BarbaraThornton in Cologne as performer on the lute and gittern. Since 1982, Young...
and he returns with the rest of the cowboys to the ranch. Thornton's teenage daughter, Barbara, instantly falls in love with Kansas. He soon learns that...
and championing prominent international artists such as Barbara Bloom and the estates of Thornton Dial, John Boskovich and Mary Beth Edelson. Before opening...
senator died in 1977) and faced two congressmen: Jim Guy Tucker and Ray Thornton in the Democratic Primary. Pryor advanced to a runoff with Tucker, and...
high school, Thornton attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a B.A. in 1960. He is the father of Shelley L. Thornton-Stauffer born...
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