TENET

“It was left to TENET
to pierce the heart and soul”
James Oestreich, New York Times

"Sheer joy for the listener"
James Oestreich, New York Times

"The performance was quite simply terrific"
James Oestreich, New York Times

"Put simply, the performance was sensational"
Steve Smith, New York Times

"Monteverdi was in exceptionally capable hands"
Steve Smith, New York Times

"Beautifully blended, dynamically supple"
Allan Kozinn, New York Times

"Meticulous, stylish performances"
Steve Smith, New York Times

"An excellent group of performers"
James Oestreich, New York Times

"On the fast track to the forefront of New York's early music scene"
Time Out New York

"Sensational vocal ensemble"
Time Out New York

Press

Tales of Two Vespers: 350 Years Apart, They Give the World What it Needs

01-11-12: “Green Mountain Project performs Monteverdi with seemingly complete comprehension, confidence and grace. Singers are ideally chosen for both solo and ensemble singing, displaying great clarity of pitch without sounding antiseptic. Metcalfe’s pacing always had a strong sense of pulse.”

David Patrick Stearns
Condemned to Music

Fuse Concert Review: Admiring New York’s Green Mountain Project

01-11-12: Green Mountain Project’s performance was music making at its best, historically informed, musically revealing, and sensitively and energetically performed—one could not ask for more. (…) What made this performance a one-of-a-kind occasion was the superb musicianship of all participants. The least of the singers was excellent, and there were moments of great artistry (…).

Anthony J. Palmer
The Arts Fuse

Hitting new heights with “Vespers”

01-09-12: “[A] stupendous performance. (…) Blue Heron sings with the tongues of men and women rather than angels, and that’s also true of GMP. (…) The audible interplay of voices with the variously deployed instrumental forces – two cornetti, five sackbuts, three violins, two theorbos, and organ – was a continual delight.”

Jeffrey Gantz
Boston Globe

Mr. Green Mountain’s Vespers of 1640

01-08-12: “[T]he performance itself was truly outstanding, as the performers displayed technical skill and musical artistry of the highest caliber. (…) The consistently high level of artistry makes it difficult to point out the high points.”

Joel Schwindt
Boston Musical Intelligencer

Presenting Sacred Works in a Style From the 1600s

01-05-12: “The singers and players produced a glorious, smoothly blended, beautifully textured sound. [...] Highlights were plentiful.”

Allan Kozinn
New York Times

The Green Mountain Project’s “Grand Festive Vespers in Venice c. 1640″

01-04-12: “[T]he performance was really superb, capturing the spirit of the piece with real fervor and bringing together an extraordinary collection of singers and performers on early instruments.”

Arthur S. Leonard
Leonard Link

Mostly Monteverdi from Green Mountain Project

01-04-12: “[T]hey were worth waiting for. (…) Do not miss this group when they perform again.”

Robert Levine
Classics Today

A Nod to St. Cecilia, Patron Despite Herself

11-26-11: The ode “Welcome to All the Pleasures” was right on target: “With music we celebrate this holy day.”

James Oestreich
New York Times

An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade

5-17-11: Most notable among the vocalists were the two sopranos — Jolle Greenleaf, Tenet’s artistic director, and Molly Quinn — and the bass, Mischa Bouvier.

James Oestreich
New York Times

Music in Review : TENET

2-16-11: Tenet, the superb vocal ensemble directed by the soprano Jolle Greenleaf, devoted its Saturday evening concert to elegiac music, with particular attention to the déploration, a Renaissance form in which composers paid tribute to recently departed teachers and colleagues.

Allan Kozinn
New York Times

Worth a Reprise at Age 401

1-3-11: A tremendous popular and critical success, the concert might have been the culmination of a one-off labor of love. Instead, evidently, it was the start of a beautiful friendship.

Steve Smith
New York Times

Vespers Born of Determination and Joy

12-30-10: It was advertised as “the first performance of 2010 to mark this anniversary in this country, possibly even the world.” If in fact it was, that was the least of its distinctions.

James Oestreich
New York Times

Sounds Both Skin Deep and Soul-Piercing

9/24/10: The singers perfectly rendered the line “I sing because I’m happy” without hokiness, and — equally infectious — they seemed happy throughout their lovely set because they were singing: sheer joy for the listener.

James Oestreich
New York Times

TENET : Six Assured Singers Harmonizing on a Trip Back to 1641 and Monteverdi’s Venice

2-15-10: Put simply, the performance was sensational. The six vocalists — [the soprano Jolle] Greenleaf, the mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn, the countertenor Ryland Angel, the tenors Philip Anderson and Marc Molomot and the bass Joe Chappel — sang with assurance and appropriate period style and blended smoothly while still registering individually.

Steve Smith
New York Times

Green Mountain Project : One Monteverdi Work and 400 Years of Debate

1-4-10: If this presentation was indeed the first of the year, that was the least of its distinctions. Far more important, it set a high standard for the many to follow.

James Oestreich
New York Times