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- Sunday November 15th 2009 at 8.00pm, Southwark
Cathedral London Bridge SE1 9DA
Requiem, Duarte Lobo, MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS
and Renaissance masterpieces, on a Remembrance theme by Byrd, Clemens,
Gombert, Cardoso.
New Renaissance Voices, Directed by Bruce Saunders
www.newrenaissancevoices.org
- Saturday 31st October 2009 10.30-16.30, Napier
Hall Hide Place London SW1P 4NJ
Viola da Gamba Society Meeting
Have you heard this one...?
Members of the society share some of their favourite but lesser known
consort pieces. Members of Chelys Consort of Viols (Jenny Bullock,
Jennifer Barron and Alison Kinder) will present some of the 3-part
repertoire. See www.vdgs.org.uk
- 30th October to 1st November 2009, Dillington
House , Somerset, TA19 9DT
SWEMF: Purcell and Handel Weekend
Directed by Ralph Allwood. Additional tutors: Lynn Selwood and Sophie
Middleditch
This beautiful venue is booked for a weekend of music making from 30th
October to 1st November 2009, to celebrate the anniversaries of Purcell
and Handel, directed by Ralph Allwood, with additional tutors Lynn Selwood
(strings) and Sophie Middleditch (winds & recorders).
This event is to celebrate the anniversaries of Purcell and Handel which
fall in 2009. The main areas of study will be Purcell Symphony Anthems and
instrumental pieces for singers and string players, Trio Sonatas and viol
consorts with emphasis on music by Handel and Purcell.
The pitch will be 415 for the Anthems, but keyboards at 415 and at 440
will be provided for other groups. Music for the Anthems will be provided.
Some instrumental music will be available, but instrumentalists are asked
to bring any suitable music which they might like to study.
- Sunday 4th October 2009 5pm, St Mary's Church,
Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16
Monteverdi and his World, The Lantana Ensemble, Directed from the keyboard
by Peter Holman
Music from Orfeo and Il Ballo delle Ingrate
Settings by Monteverdi and Rosenmüller of Confitebor tibi, Domine
Instrumental music by Rosenmüller, Cavalli, Legrenzi and Marini
Performed by: Rebecca Hickey (soprano); Judy Tarling, Ilana Cravitz
(baroque violin); David Brooker, Zen Edwards (baroque viola); Amelie
Addison (baroque cello).
Tickets: £12, £8 concs on the door.
Please see www.ilanacravitz.com/calendar.html
- Friday 18 September 2009, 7.30pm,
Cadogan Hall Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
Mercurius Company present ~ Orpheus Britannicus,
A Baroque opera in celebration of Purcell
Ricardo Barros - conception, artistic director, choreography,
Jane Gingell - baroque gestures, stage director
Lisete da Silva - music director,
Madeleine Inglehearn - artistic advisor and choreographer
Dancers, Singers and Period Instrumentalists
A fully staged performance of some of his most inspired music, including
excerpts from operas and incidental music - a tale of adventurers seeking
riches in an unknown land inhabited by exotic, mythological and mystical
creatures.
Box office: 020 7730 4500, Tickets@ £25, £20, £15 & £10
See www.mercuriuscompany.co.uk and www.cadoganhall.co.uk
- Thursday 10 September 2009, 5.00-7.30pm, Radio
Theatre, BBC Broadcasting House
BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' celebrating the music of Henry Purcell
The Rose Consort of Viols will be participating in a special edition of BBC
Radio 3's 'In Tune', celebrating the music of Henry Purcell, who may well
have been born exactly 350 years ago on this date. The performance is live,
with a studio audience, and the Roses will be playing a selection of Purcell’s
3 and 4 part fantazias, his Fantazia upon One Note, and the In Nomines in
six and seven parts. See also BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune'
- 28-31 August 2009
Suffolk Villages Festival
Artistic Director: Peter Holman
Friday 28 August, 8pm, St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Purcell: The Indian Queen
with pre-concert talk by Dr Bryan White at 6.45pm
Saturday 29 August, 12 midday, St James’s Church, Nayland
The Noble Bass Viol
Saturday 29 August, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
directed by Steven Devine
Sunday 30 August, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Haydn Quartet Op. 103, Spohr Double Quartet No. 3, Op. 87, Mendelssohn Octet
Monday 31 August, 12 midday, St Mary’s Church, Polstead
The Wheel of Fortune
Monday 31 August, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Handel: Ode on St Cecilia’s Day
directed by Peter Holman
Please visit:- www.suffolkvillagesfestival.com
- 25 July 2009, 7pm, Wells Cathedral, Somerset,
BA5 2UE
Brilliant Baroque! Charpentier Te Deum, Vivaldi Gloria, Handel Dixit Dominus
Emma Kirkby, in this her 60th birthday year, joins superb baroque ensemble
Canzona (director Theresa Caudle) and Somerset Chamber Choir for this exciting
concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the choir.
Together with four further fine young soloists - Sophie Bevan (soprano),
Tim Mead (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Derek Welton (baritone),
this is sure to be a wonderful summer's evening of delightful music brought
to life by a fine ensemble of performers in the glorious setting of this magnificent
Cathedral. This will also be Emma's first performance of the Charpentier Te
Deum, so to be present at this world-first.www.somersetchamberchoir.org.uk
- 18 - 23 July 2009, Little Benslow Hills, Ibberson
Way, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RB
International Viol Summer School (09/502)
Tutored by: Alison Crum, Roy Marks, and Visiting Tutors, Ibi Aziz and Peter
Wendland
A chance for viol players with a particular interest in English consort music
to work with distinguished professional players and teachers. Late afternoon
sessions will offer a choice of other topics such as madrigals, consort songs,
early renaissance repertoire and continuo playing. There will also be a chance
for those who wish to spend one or two sessions working in depth on repertoire
of their own choice. This course is for experienced consort players with good
sight-reading skills, capable of playing at least two sizes of viol. www.benslow.org
Tel: 01462 459446
- July 2009 (dates - see below), Iford Manor BA15
2BA, Iford Festival 2009, Early Opera at Iford
Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea
2009 is an exciting and significant year as it marks the tenth anniversary
of the successful collaboration between Iford Arts and the Early Opera Company,
who will be performing Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea on July 10,11,14,15,17,18.
Directed by Martin Constantine, and set in the unsentimental Venetian world
of passion, politics and absolute power, audiences will be brought face-to-face
with the Machiavellian intrigue central to Monteverdi’s operatic tour de force,
with the intimacy of the cloister exposing the high emotions and motivations
of each character. The Early Opera Company, with a cast including Joanne Boag,
Doreen Curran, Eyjolfur Eyjolfsson, James Gower, Katherine Manley, James McOran-Campbell,
and Nicolas Sharratt, make a welcome return to Iford under the inspired direction
of Christian Curnyn, who has recently garnered rave reviews for his musical
direction of Partenope at ENO. The Times described how ‘the Baroque specialist
Christian Curnyn coaxed stylish, assured and often thrillingly swift playing
from the ENO orchestra,’ and The Guardian noted his ‘phenomenal conducting.’
Gates open at 6pm for picnics with the Coronation of Poppea beginning at 7.30pm.
Early Music Promenade Concert, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Based on the ‘Pleasure Gardens’ concept, Iford Manor's beautiful Peto Garden
will be the backdrop for an intriguing new-style Sunday evening promenade
concert of early music, song and dance.
The Garden of Earthly Delights on Sunday 12 July features the Daughters of
Elvin who will delight with fantastical dancing masked creatures accompanied
by pulsating medieval music and song. This mixed early music ensemble has
a unique theatrical approach, and with crumhorn, dulcimer and hurdy-gurdy
– as well as border bagpipes, recorders, harps and whistles – will conjure
up beasts straight from the pages of medieval mythology. Meanwhile, in the
cloister, Music from the Pleasure Gardens – a delicious suite of Vauxhall
Gardens style mini-concerts – will be performed by soloists from the Early
Opera Company. Gates open at 6pm for picnics and entertainment. Tickets for
the Garden of Earthly Delights:
For all other information please visit the website at www.ifordarts.co.uk.
- Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th July 2009
University of York, YO10 5DD United Kingdom
National Early Music Association International Conference
In cooperation with University of York Music Department and the York Early
Music Festival.
Singing music from 1500 to 1900 - style, technique, knowledge, assertion,
experiment.
- June 2009
Early Music Performer - Issue 24
Andrew Woolley takes over the editorship of Early Music Performer.
- 16 January to 28 June 2009
The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London EC1N 1AZ
Handel the Philanthropist
This exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death (23
February 1759). Handel was a major donor to two charities in particular, the
Fund for Decay’d Musicians (now the Royal Society of Musicians) and the Foundling
Hospital, who both benefited from bequests in his will, as well as benefit
concerts organized by the composer.
The Royal Society of Musicians is joining with the Foundling Museum for the
2009 exhibition with a loan of manuscript documents and art works from its
collections which are rarely seen by the public. Further exhibits from the
British Library, the Royal College of Music, King’s College, Cambridge, Leeds
Public Library, the London Metropolitan Archives, the National Portrait Gallery
and the Royal Collections will complement items from the rich holdings of
the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum.
There will be a series of concerts as part of the London Handel Festival,
to include performances of the Foundling Hospital Anthem, composed for the
opening of the Hospital chapel in 1849, and Messiah, a work particularly associated
with Handel’s philanthropy, from its first performance in Dublin to the annual
performances in the Hospital chapel. Further concerts will be given by members
of the Royal Society of Musicians, and a programme of talks will support the
exhibition, including gallery talks by museum staff and lectures by leading
Handel scholars.
Guided tours can be arranged: contact Tuz Morrison Further details on
the museum website www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
- 17-19 April 2009 University of Nottingham
Interfora & Nema, Handel 250th Anniversary Commemoration
A weekend course & informal performance of Saul
Directed by Laurence Cummings
Friday evening to Sunday afternoon 17-19 April 2009 (the weekend after Easter)
at the University of Nottingham Department of Music, with accommodation on
site
This is the second ever Interforum event, commemorating the 250th anniversary
year of Handel's death.
The choir has a major role in the work. Soloists will be drawn from the choir;
please indicate below if you wish to sing a solo. (We will not necessarily
allocate each role to a single singer.)
The orchestra requires strings, oboes, bassoons, harpsichord & organ (instruments
as well as players),
2 flutes (preferably able to play other instruments or sing), 2 trumpets and
3 trombones and carillon.
- 14 April 2009 7.30pm, London Old Royal Naval Chapel
Greenwich
Handel Coronation Anthems: The 2009 Choral Pilgrimage
The Sixteen
A concert devoted to the works of George Frideric Handel celebrating the 250th
anniversary of his death, to the exact day, in 1759. Featuring both the Choir
and Orchestra of The Sixteen, this will be a celebration not to be missed.
Box Office: www.ncem.co.uk for details see www.thesixteen.com
- Sunday, 5 April 2009 c.11.30 – 4.30pm, Trinity
College of Music, Greenwich, London
Handel Insight Day, with Professor Donald Burrows and The Sixteen
The greatest composer of all time? The Lloyd Webber of his day?
Whatever your opinion of Handel, don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear
from Donald Burrows; author of the definitive handbook Handel: Messiah and
editor of Samson for Novello Handel Edition. Joining him will be History Professor
Jeremy Black (author of Eighteenth Century Britain) who will discuss the social
and political context in which Handel was working, and members of The Sixteen,
providing the musical illustration.
Tickets £30 (includes refreshments) or £25 if booked with a Choral Pilgrimage,
concert ticket – details from NCEM
On sale now from the National Centre for Early Music www.ncem.co.uk
- March 2009
Issue 23 Early Music Performer - Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- Saturday 28th February 2009 7.30pm, Southwark
Cathedral London Bridge SE1
New Renaissance Voices, Just Josquin
The Music of Josquin Desprez
Missa ‘Ave Maris Stella’
Motets & Chansons including
Nymphes des Bois, Illibata Virgo Dei Nutrix,
Planxit autem David, O Virgo prudentissima
New Renaissance Voices. Directed by Bruce Saunders. www.nrv.org.uk
- Friday 27th February 2009 7:00pm, Lincoln Drill
Hall
Trinity College of Music Early Music Department
Mediaeval & Renaissance Music, Trinity College of Music Early Music Department
presents a recital of Mediaeval & Renaissance Music
www.lincolndrillhall.com
- Tuesday, 20th January 2009 at 6.15pm, City Chorus,
Open Evening for potential new members
Based in the City of London, City Chorus is a friendly choir that performs
regularly in beautiful churches in the city.
Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays, 6.15-8.15 pm at the NatWest building, 1 Princes
Street, right next to Bank station (Exit 1) and we are holding a special Open
Evening for potential new members on Tuesday, 20th January 2009 at 6.15pm.
We welcome new singers in all voice ranges. If you are enthusiastic, have
a good, true voice, and can attend rehearsals regularly, then come and give
us a try! Best of all, there are no auditions: some choral singing experience
and music-reading ability would be an advantage, but is not essential, as
all works to be performed are thoroughly rehearsed over the course of each
term.
Please go to our website www.citychorus.info
or contact our membership secretary Sarah Silvé.
- November 2008 Early Music Yearbook & Performers
Directory 2009 Published - ISSN 0967-6619.
- Saturday 29th November 2008, St. Andrew’s in the
Westlands, Pilkington Avenue, Newcastle under Lyme, ST5 3RE
The Annual Nema Day in association with the North West Early Music Forum.
'The music of Juan Esquivel: a neglected master revisied.'
To include the National Early Music Association AGM, Margot Leigh Milner Lecture,
and Workshop.
The workshop and lecture are to be given by Clive Walkley. Clive Walkley,
who is a part-time lecturer at Lancaster University, has been making a detailed
study of the music and life of Esquivel and has a book being prepared for
publication. For many years he was Director of the NWEMF Summer School. He
has his own chamber choir and is a regular tutor at early music workshops
specialising in the Iberian repertoire.
Juan Esquivel c1563- c1613 was - quoting from New Grove - ‘one of the most
prolific and finest Spanish composers of his time whose motets stand comparison
with Victoria’. The day will be given to the study of works by Esquivel set
in the context of works by his contemporaries.
The workshop is for singers and instruments suitable for an Iberian church
i.e. shawms, cornetti, sackbuts and bass curtal with organ continuo.
- Saturday 29th November 2008, 7.30pm, Southampton
Guildhall, Handel – Theodora
Southampton Philharmonic Choir, THE HANOVER BAND, David Gibson (conductor)
Soloists: Erica Eloff (soprano), Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano), James Laing
(countertenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor) and Wyn Pencarreg (bass)
http://www.thehanoverband.com
- Sunday October 19th 2008 at 6pm, St Marys (New)
Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 9ES (opp Clissold Park),
Music by J F Fasch and Contemporaries, Linden Baroque, director Steven Devine
J F Fasch Orchestral Suites in E min & D min, Concerto in D min, J D Heinichen
Sonata in B flat for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo,
G P Telemann Trio No. 10 in D Maj for Violin, Viola and Continuo, C Graupner
Entrata in G min GWV 468 for strings & continuo
http://www.lindenbaroque.org/
- Saturday 4 October 2008, 10.00-17.00, The British
Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1
Music in Purcell's London: "Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow", Keynote speaker:
Professor Sir Curtis Price, KBE
A study day on the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries John Blow
and Giovanni Battista Draghi, marking the 300th anniversary of Blow and Draghi's
deaths in 1708, and the 350th anniversary of Purell's birth in 1658 or 1659.
Other speakers include Rebecca Herissone, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman,
Andrew Pinnock, Robert Thompson, Bryan White and Bruce Wood. The day will
also include performances of music by Purcell, Blow and Draghi.
Further details: http://www.henrypurcell.org.uk/study_day.html
- Saturday 6 September 2008, 19.30, Cosmo Rodewald
Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
It's My Song, Robin Blaze (countertenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Solo singing in seventeenth century England
Works by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Henry Lawes, Pietro Reggio and Henry
Purcell
- July 2008
Issue 22 Early Music Performer - Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- July 21st – 25th 2008, Warwick School, Warwickshire,
Early Music for Youth - Summer School 2008
The summer school offers exciting and diverse opportunities for young players
under the guidance of experienced tutors. Playing opportunities include chamber
groups, large ensembles, viol consorts, recorder consorts and mixed ensembles,
catering for every age and ability (grades 2 – 4, 5 – 7 and 8+). More advanced
players will play in small chamber groups and consorts, tackling challenging
repertoire and developing the all important skills of a chamber musician.
Cellists and keyboard players (playing harpsichord) will have plenty of continuo
playing experience in trio sonata groups with the most advanced recorder and
viol players. Less experienced players will enjoy the variety of different
ensembles, playing both within larger groups and also being encouraged to
play chamber music. There will be plenty of time for recreational activities,
making full use of the facilities available to us. Tutors:- Alison Kinder,
Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Colin Touchin, Claire Williams, Chris Hartland.
For details visit http://www.earlymusicforyouth.co.uk/
- 26th June – 19th July. Chester Cathedral Green
CH1 2HU. The Chester Mystery Plays.
Acrobats, Magicians, Jugglers, Fire-Eaters, Stilt-Walkers, Dancers, Samba
Bands, Actors, Musicians and Fireworks
Dating back to the 1300s, the Chester Mystery Plays have become a rare and
treasured part of Britain’s cultural heritage – now performed only every five
years. Artistic Director Robin Goddard and Composer & Musical Director Matt
Baker brilliantly re-invent these iconic Bible stories into a truly spectacular,
dynamic theatrical experience. A company of over four hundred present tales
of ambition, intrigue, betrayal and passion. Acrobats, Magicians, Jugglers,
Fire-Eaters, Stilt-Walkers, Dancers, Samba Bands, Actors, Musicians and Fireworks,
in a spectacular festival of the greatest stories every told! www.chestermysteryplays.com
- 14 – 17 July 2008, Leipzig: Performances will
take place in the magnificent Gewandhaus and the renowned St Nicholas Church
and other wonderful churches in the city. ‘First’ Leipzig International Choral
Festival, Germany Artistic Director Jonathan Willcocks. Celebrated
Queen’s award winning Casterbridge Tours from the UK have formed a partnership
with the city of Leipzig to bring this spectacular choral extravaganza together.
Inspired with choirs from around the world gathering together in one of the
most musically dedicated cities in Europe. The Festival is a cultural exchange
of choral music, a unique opportunity for both singers and audiences alike
to explore and engage in the musical talents of singers from around the globe.Artistic
Director Jonathan Willcocks has worked extensively as a guest conductor throughout
the world and is celebrated in his field. He will lead workshops and masterclasses
for the visiting choirs throughout the festival and will conduct the Grand
opening and Finale concerts. The international flavour of the event is highly
exciting. Performances will take place in the magnificent Gewandhaus and the
renowned St Nicholas Church amongst other wonderful churches in the city.
Visit www.leipzigchoralfestival.com
- 11th July 2008 7.45 pm, St Giles Cripplegate,
Fore Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA
The Miltons of Bread Street, Father and Son, Concert Bites and Trio Literati
A celebration of the poet John Milton’s 400th anniversary in the church where
he and his father John Milton the composer, are both buried.
Concert Bites brings five young professional singers to join Trio Literati
in a feast of poetry and music by the Miltons of Bread Street.
Tickets £14.00 (£11.50 concessions) on the door. See also www.concertbites.co.uk
and www.trioliterati.org.uk.
- Saturday 21 June 2008 at 7.30pm, Durham Cathedral,
Heavenly Concord ,Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers, Durham Baroque, James
Bowman, Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers, Durham Baroque, Richard Lloyd
Morgan: baritone, Conductor: Ralph Woodward. Bach - Cantata BWV 170
Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, Purcell - Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem,
Pergolesi - Salve Regina, Handel - I will magnify thee.
- 14 May 2008 7.30pm Ottery St Mary Church, Devon,
‘Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage’
Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo. Profits in aid
of The Exeter Leukaemia Fund.
- Sunday 11 May 2008, 6pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke
Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES
The Sonority of Strings, Lantana Ensemble, directed from the harpsichord by
Peter Holman
Ilana Cravitz (baroque violin), Zen Edwards, Oakki Lau, Michael Blee (baroque
violin/viola), Louise Jameson (baroque cello)
Works by Biber, Rosenmuller, Muffat, J.B. Bach, Schmelzer, and Telemann.
- Friday 9 May 2008 at 7.30 pm, Lopping Hall, Loughton
High Road, Essex - 5 minutes from Loughton Station
Mary Wroth's Loughton: Its Music, Its Magic, The performance will be accompanied
by the Erato Consort
An evening of readings from Wroth and her contemporaries. Mary Wroth
was the first woman to publish in 1621, a prose romance in England. The performance
will be accompanied by Erato Consort, singing Madrigals of the period and
a new Madrigal, 'In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn?', composed by
David Lewiston Sharpe, will be premiered.
- Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Corpus
Christi Church, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NB
Bach Trio Sonatas, The Maresienne Consort
Huw Daniel, violin, Ibi Aziz, viola da gamba, Bridget Cunningham, harpsichord
play BACH TRIO SONATAS: arrangements of J.S. Bach's works for violin, viola
da gamba and harpsichord
- Saturday 12th April 2008 7.30 pm,St George’s Chuch,
Kemp Town, Brighton, ‘Songs of Sundrie Natures’
Deborah Roberts (soprano), Alison Crum (viola da gamba) and Roy Marks (lute)
Lute songs, madrigals and instrumental works by Byrd, Dowland, Weelkes, Ward,
Ferrabosco, Jenkins and Simpson.
Tickets £12.50. Full details (and online booking) are at www.bremf.org.uk
- Saturday March 8th 2008 7.30pm, Southwark
Cathedral London Bridge SE1 9DA
Passion, New Renaissance Voices with Jenny Bullock - viola da gamba
Gesualdo: Holy Week Tenebrae Responsaries
Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro
Motets by Compere and Josquin
Details see: http://www.nrv.org.uk/
- Sunday March 2nd 2008 at 6pm, St
Alfege Church, Greenwich
Opera from the Restoration period in London, Linden Baroque Orchestra
Steven Devine directing, the theme is Opera from the Restoration period in
London and includes fine and stirring music from Purcell's The Faerie Queen,
King Arthur and Dioclesian, Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and John Blow's
Venus and Adonis.
Kate Semmens (soprano), Giles Davies (Baritone), joined by Seb Harris (alto),
and Greg Tassell
Tickets at door £10 (£8 concessions) under 14 free. Wine and soft drinks served.
St Alfege's is in the very centre of Greenwich, a 5min walk from Cutty Sark
DLR station and under 10min from Greenwich BR.
For details see Linden Baroque Orchestra
- February 2008
Early Music Forum of Scotland
Announce new web site and web address www.emfscotland.info
- Sunday 27 January 2008. Doors open
7.30pm Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. Klezmer Keilidh,Dance
Your Sapozkelekh* Off. Guy Schalom, Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House
Band. Hopkele Productions presents the 2nd anniversary Klezmer Keilidh. The
barn dance for the 21st Century – Yiddish style – will be at Cecil Sharp House,
NW1. Whisk away those winter cobwebs with klezmer dance kaller Guy Schalom,
who will lead and teach traditional Eastern European Yiddish circle, square
and chain dances. Fiddler Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band will help
put that extra spring in your step with live klezmer music. Suitable for all
ages and dancing abilities. The Hopkele will be at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's
Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. (Tube: Camden Town and Chalk Farm, northern line).
For details www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.html * Little boots –
also the name of a popular Yiddish song
- November 2007 Issue 21 Early Music
Performer published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
- Saturday 15 December 2007, 7.30pm,
Great St Mary’s Church Cambridge, Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter Concert
Series 2007 Concerti for Christmas, The Musical & Amicable Society
This December the ensemble of soloists will play Handel’s Arrival of the Queen
of Sheba; Bach’s Viola Concerto in E flat (reconstruction); Vivaldi’s Concerto
for two oboes; a Concerto Grosso by Alessandro Scarlatti; Corelli’s Christmas
Concerto; Muffat’s Armonico Tributo no5, and Bach’s fourth Brandenburg Concerto.
For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
- Friday 7 December 2007- 7.30 pm,
National Centre for Early Music, York Early Music Christmas Festival Concert
Lullaby, my Sweet Little Baby, The Rose Consort of Viols: Ibi Aziz, John Bryan,
Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols, with Catherine King mezzo-soprano.
Elizabethan songs and consort music for a Festive Celebration including music
by Byrd, Tye, Holborne and Peerson. For details contact:- National Centre
for Early Music.
- Thursday 6th December 2007 at 7.30
pm, Djanogly Concert Hall, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University Concert
Series. Perfect and Sweet Harmony, The Rose Consort of Viols: John
Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks viols
A journey through the viol consort’s development, starting with copies of
instruments from Italy in 1497, through later 16th century Venetian instruments
to the Jacobean period and English viols, ending with pieces from the 17th
century by Lawes, Locke and Purcell.
For details contact: Catherine Hocking, Music Officer, Lakeside Arts Centre,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD. www.lakesidearts.org.uk
- Thursday 29th November 2007 at 7.30
pm, Great Hall, Lancaster University, Lancaster International Concert Series
Songs without Words: Consort Music from the Age of Elizabeth I. The Rose Consort
of Viols: Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks viols.
Renaissance composers were adept at borrowing each others’ music: well known
songs were arranged as instrumental pieces; motets and madrigals performed
without their texts. This programme explores a range of consort music that
owes much to the rich vocal repertory of the Elizabethan age, including pieces
by Tallis, Tye, Parsons, Ferrabosco, Byrd and Dowland.
- 23 November 2007 8pm St Patrick's
Church, Dillon Court, Netham Road, Redfield Bristol BS5 9PF, Concert, Fortune
my foe
The York Waits: One of the greatest dramas of English history has become associated
with the name of one man - Guy Fawkes, born in the city of York in 1570. He
was the technician of the Gunpowder Plot, and the man caught red-handed beneath
Parliament on November 5, 1605. Now, his home town band The York Waits perform
a concert which provides a soundtrack to the life and times of Fawkes and
his co-conspirators. Music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period
is played on a wide range of the instruments of the time, from loud shawms,
sackbuts and curtal, to softer ensembles of recorders and strings. Also featured
will be the lute, the most important instrument of the period, and the renaissance
violin. The late 16th and early 17th century was a golden age of English music
and The York Waits will play works by some of the leading composers of the
day, such as Dowland and Byrd. There will also be popular music from both
south and north of the Border, played on instruments such as bagpipes, cittern,
guitar and hurdy gurdy. The concert is accompanied by a dramatic narration,
drawn from original sources such as letters and trial reports, which outlines
the course of the Plot from its conception to its discovery and the grim fate
of the plotters. The narration is given by experienced broadcaster Tim Healey,
a member of The Oxford Waits. For details visit www.saintpatricksmusic.co.uk
or www.waits.org.uk/york/
- Saturday 24th November 2007 10.30am
to 6pm, Dutch Church, 7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA, Nema AGM and Playing
Day...Workshop and Lecture Michael Praetorius Says Directed by Philip
Thorby Hosts - Thames Valley Early Music Forum Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
was a prolific and highly significant composer. His Syntagma Musicum gives
a detailed account of contemporary musical practices as well as descriptions
of the instruments current at that time. We shall be studying some of his
large scale works in the light of his suggestions for ways of performing this
music. Philip Thorby is well known as a consummate player of instruments such
as viol, recorder and shawm and for his directing of workshops and summer
schools. He teaches Early Music at Trinity College of Music and is director
of Musica Antiqua of London.
For details visit Thames Valley Early Music Forum.
- Saturday 17 November 2007, 8.30pm
Café Cairo, Landor Road, London, SW9 9PE Crimes Against Klezmer Clapton Klezmer
Duo. An intimate set from Ilana Cravitz (fiddle) and James Siverly
(accordion) at this cosy south London emporium. The duo will play both traditional
klezmer and numbers from their new band, Crimes Against Klezmer. Café Cairo,
Landor Road, London, SW9 9PE. Clapham North tube.
- November 2007
Early Music Yearbook 2008 ISSN 0967-6619 Published.
- 14 November 2007 - 1.10pm St Anne
and St Agnes Church, Gresham Street, London, EC2 Mediva... has been
a fun loving, imaginative and successful medieval group for almost ten years,
performing a range of music from the 12th - 15th century. Over the years many
fantastic musicians have played with the group and the current format is a
recent 'love at first sght' coming together of some of the leading medieval
musicians in their fields. Concerts are full of energy, passion and a love
of life, which gets the audience itching to leap to their feet. For details
visit www.mediva.co.uk
- Sunday 11 November 2007, 1- 4pm The
Cross Kings is at 126 York Way, London N1 0AX Chicken Soup for the Ears London
Klezmer Collective. Come and join the London Klezmer Collective’s first
second-Sunday jam at the Cross Kings on Sunday 11 November, between 1 and
4pm. The capital’s first regular klezmer session has found a home at the Cross
Kings pub. While you’re playing or listening, eat lunch, have a coffee, booze,
shmooze or just relax in the deep sofas and convivial atmosphere of this great
central London pub. There might even be a bit of dancing… Out-of-towners particularly
welcome! Klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of the Jews of eastern
Europe, is the flavour of the month. Anyone interested in playing or listening
to klezmer is welcome to come along; no experience is necessary. Join skilled
professionals, keen amateurs, home-grown talent and perhaps even some international
visitors. For more klezmer information and sheet music for some of the tunes
we might play visit www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html Visit http://www.thecrosskings.co.uk
for details.
- November 9th - November 11th 2007
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich London SE10 9LW Greenwich International
Festival of Early Music. The dates have been finalised for this year's
Early Music Festival & Exhibition which will return to the Old Royal Naval
College, Greenwich for a 6th year. For details see Greenwich International
Festival of Early Music
- Saturday 27 October 2007, 7.30pm
Trinity College Chapel Cambridge. Folk Songs Trio Mediaeval with Birger Mistereggen
Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum sopranos, with
Birger Mistereggen percussion Part of the Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter
Concert Series 2007. For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
- Saturday 13 October 2007, 7.30pm
St Edward’s Church Cambridge YS : Songs from a Sunken City and other Myths
of the Sea
Clara Sanabras and Retrospect, Clara Sanabras voice, lutes, gittern; Susanne
Heinrich viols; Clare Salaman violin, fidel, hurdy-gurdy, nickelharpa. Part
of the Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter Concert Series 2007.
For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
- 10th of August to the 2nd of September
2007. The Edinburgh International Festival presents a rich programme
of music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls
and a number of smaller venues, over a three-week period in late summer each
year.
Some of the highlights include, major figures in the Early Music scene such
as Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Mark Padmore, Chiara Banchini, Andreas
Scholl, Claudio Cavina, Paul Hillier, Konrad Junghänel and The Tallis Scholars
appear, many making their EIF debuts. And a new string of concerts in the
atmospheric surroundings of Greyfriars Kirk that trace the development of
European vocal music through the middle ages and the renaissance.
Jonathan Mills, Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Festival, said
“400 years ago Claudio Monteverdi wrote L’Orfeo – an opera which continues
to inspire composers, writers, theatre directors and artists. I want to celebrate
Monteverdi’s remarkable achievement throughout the 2007 Edinburgh International
Festival. The centre piece of our tribute to Monteverdi’s abiding genius is
Gilbert Deflo’s and Jordi Savall’s beautiful, arcadian production of L’Orfeo.
The heartbeat doesn’t stop there. The ideas of mythology, poetry, drama and
music that Monteverdi introduced and championed through his “favola in musica”
can be found in our dance and theatre programmes as well as in our concert
halls and recitals. For details see... www.eif.co.uk
- Saturday 28 July to Saturday 4 August
2007 Norvis early music summer school is held
annually in Durham, England. The course covers all aspects of early music
and is suitable for beginners through to advanced and solo players. There
are technique classes for viols, recorders, singing, harpsichord, lute and
baroque strings. Other activities include consort playing, concerts, lectures,
trio sonatas, renaissance band, choir, baroque orchestra and early dancing.
The 2007 Music List is now available.
- May 2007 Issue 20 Early Music Performer - Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- Saturday 21 April 2007 Beyond the
Golden Age
A one-day conference organised in association with the Royal Musical Association
and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Seventeenth-century English dramatic song has been consistently underrated
in the histories that condition concert and record programming. As part of
the day, there will be a performance at 2.15pm of "The Masque of Moments"
- extracts from sixteen masques, with music by Thomas Campion, Alfonso Ferrabosco,
William and Henry Lawes, Charles Colman et al. Taking part are some of the
professional singers and musicians from the series of Festival performances
of the programme this summer, including Sophie Daneman and Robin Blaze, viol
players Mark Levy and Joanna Levine from Concordia, and students from the
Royal Academy of Music. www.soton.ac.uk/music/news/luteday.html
- John Beckett - John
Stewart Beckett (5 February 1927 - 5 February 2007)
- Saturday December 2nd 2006 6pm
at St Alfege Church, Greenwich.
Linden
Baroque, a concert:- The programme will include Handel Concerto Grosso
op. 6 no. 6 G min & Concerto Grosso op. 3 no. 3 G maj, Boyce Symphony no.
1 in B flat maj, Geminiani Concerto Grosso after Corelli op.5 no.7
D min and music by Arne and Festing.
- December 2006 Issue 19 Early Music Performer
- Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- November 2006, Early Music Yearbook
2007 ISSN 0967-6619 published.
- Saturday 25th November 2006 10:15
Joint Meeting, Nema AGM and Nema-NEEMF Playing Day
The School of Music, The University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT. Hosts -
North East Early Music Forum
Workshop: Restoration Verse Anthems, Directed by Peter Holman
10:15 Workshop registration and coffee
10:30am - 4:00pm Rehearsal of verse anthems (with break for lunch and NEMA
AGM at 1:00pm)
4:00pm Tea
4:30pm Margot Leigh Milner Lecture (details to be confirmed)
6:00-7:00pm Concert.
Travel directions – see www.leeds.ac.uk/music
- "Leading Notes" contents list from
issues 1-16, compiled by Simon R. Hill, added to web site.
"Early Music Performer" replaced the earlier publication "Leading Notes"
January 1991 - Autumn 1998.
View the list of articles contained here- Leading Notes
- Saturday 10th June 2006 - Manchester's
Bridgewater Hall
JOIN THE PEOPLE'S CHORUS. This is a major BBC FOUR music event and
we're looking for a chorus of 1,000 singers to record Tallis' most famous
work - 'Spem in Alium'. This massive choral undertaking is an exciting
opportunity for the public to perform at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on
Saturday June 10th 2006. The piece will be rehearsed from scratch, with
1,000 voices forming eight choirs, culminating in a performance at the end
of the day of one of the most marvellous and sublime pieces of music in
the world. We are presently trying to make as many choirs and singers and
interested parties aware of this event as possible. We are still looking
for our participants to come and be part of this chorus of 1,000.
- May 2006 Issue 18 Early Music Performer - Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- February 2006:- extract from Nema
News Volume 2
The AGM for 2005 took place on 26th November as part of a playing
day at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, in conjunction with
South West Early Music Forum. Robert Hollingworth conducted the Playing
Day superbly. Those who were able to attend found it a wonderful experience
and the lecture by Dr Julius Drake which will be reported on in Early Music
Performer was very interesting and informative. Following this there was
a concert by I Fagiolini. Keith Bennett is to be congratulated on organising
this excellent day.
- November 2005 Ashgate Publications
have published From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments
and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century edited by Jonathan Wainwright
and Peter Holman, the proceedings of the NEMA conference. NEMA members can
buy this book at a special price of £40 - £15 off the published price. (This
offer ends 30th December 2005)
- November 2005 Issue 16 Early Music
Performer published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X.
- November 2005, Early Music Yearbook
2006 published. ISSN 0967-6619
Copies have been sent to NEMA members. You can also purchase the
Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook page)
- Saturday 26 November 2005 10.30
NEMA AGM and PLAYING DAY
The 2005 AGM will be hosted by SWEMF in the beautiful market town
of Bradford on Avon at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Ashley Road, Bradford
on Avon, Wilts. Workshop director: Robert Hollingworth
Music of Venice: including Giovanni Antonio Rigatti Dixit Dominus.
Giovanni Gabrieli O Quam suavis est.
7.00p.m. Concert by I Fagiolini including works by Monteverdi, Banchieri,
Tomkins, Britten & Berberian. This will be a public concert in the Wiltshire
Music Centre's splendid and comfortable 300-seat auditorium, with its
brilliant acoustics and sightlines.
- May 2005 Issue 15 Early Music Performer -
Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- March 2005 Nema News Volume 1
published.
Nema has started an occasional newsletter to keep our members more closely
in touch with the activities of the Council, and to include news, membership
information and items which do not belong in our journal, Early Music
Performer. The first issue was sent to members at the end of March, and
includes an offer of a discount on an excellent new CD. We look forward
to your comments on our new publication, and your contributions.
- November 27th 2004,10.30 am -
5.30 pm - Early Music Day
Jean Loosemore Music and Drama Block at Arden School, Knowle, Solihull
B93 0PT
The Midlands Early Music Forum and The National Early Music Association
present
Sounds South American, A workshop for singers and instruments (A=440)
Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore
- November 2004, Early Music
Yearbook 2005 published. ISSN 0967-6619
Free copies have been sent out to NEMA members. You can also purchase
the Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook
page)
- October 2004 Issue 14 Early Music Performer
- Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- February 2004
The North East Early Music Forum and Thames Valley Early Music
Forum announce new web sites.
- January 2004 Issue 13 Early
Music Performer published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
- October 2003, Early Music Yearbook
2004 published ISSN 0967-6619
Free copies have been sent out to NEMA members. You can also purchase
the Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook
page)
- Saturday 29, November 2003
Early Music Day.
National Early Music Association in conjunction with Eastern Early Music
Forum,
St. Columba’s United Reformed Church, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2
3DS, at 10.15am.
The day will include
- Requiem in F minor by Biber: a workshop with Philip Thorby
- The Annual Margot Leigh Milner Lecture given by Stephen Rose
- NEMA AGM
- Performance of Requiem in F minor by Biber
All are welcome to any part of the day. Workshop fee: £16 (£14 for NEMA
members and Early Music Forum members) Tickets for Lecture and Concert:
£5 (free to NEMA and Forum members) on the door. Contact:- Selene Mills,
EEMF eemf@cemss.org
- 24th to 26th October 2003
Greenwich International Festival of Early Music.
- August 2003 Issue 12 Early Music Performer
- Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- March 2003 Issue 11 Early Music Performer
- Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
- 5th March 2003
www.nema-uk.org
The National Early Music Association
announces new Website.
- August 2002 Issue 10 Early Music Performer
- Published.
Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
For details see the Performer page.
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