A new organization in New York has launched with the unusual aim of providing support and publicity to the city’s various early music ensembles. “Critics and early-music fans in New York have lamented that, despite a growing number of period-instrument ensembles and vocal groups, and the continuing popularity of early music on recordings, it remains a backwater in the city’s musical life… [The new company] hopes to bring cohesiveness and vitality to the city’s patchwork of early-music groups.”