Continuum: New Year's — Sacred & Festive

By Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Published January 4, 2015 at 8:56 AM CST

Continuum this week will present a special New Year's program of early music, both sacred and secular.

The sacred music is primarily from the Manuscrit du Puy which brings together a varied group of Aquitanian monodic and polyphonic chants for the New Year from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The secular music will be spirited French estampie dances of the 14th century.

The CDs used are: Le Manuscrit du Puy (Ensemble Gilles Binchois) Veritas Virgin Classics 077775923827, Monastic Chant (Theatre of Voices) HarmoniaMundiHMX 2907356.57, and L'Art des Jongleurs Vol. 3 (Ensemble TreFontane) Adda 590 129.

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Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Milton has been the co-host (with Thais St. Julien) of Continuum since 1976. He is a true New Orleanean, born on Mardi Gras day, attending P. A. Capdau Grammar School and Warren Easton High School. After completing the five year program of the Tulane School of Architecture in 1956 he was drafted into the Army. After a two year stint in the combat engineers in Germany he returned to New Orleans to work with the architectural firm of Goldstein, Parham & Labouisse, becoming an associate in the firm of Parham & Labouisse after Mr. Goldstein’s death. He was appointed University Architect for Dillard University in 1972 and retired from that position in 2002.

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