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During the Musica Summer school, now in its second year, you can discover masterpieces of polyphonic music through original notation, coached by members of Cappella Pratensis. The 2010 Laus Polyphoniae festival will examine a choice selection of manuscripts, illustrating the evolution of polyphonic music over 500 years. This singing course will link up with this tradition by looking at the first printed sources of polyphonic music: The Petrucci Files.

Players of recorders, viols, sackbuts, shawms, crumhorns, lutes, harps, guitars etc. are more than welcome.

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:00 - 4:00
Maryland Presbyterian Church, Towson, MD

Featuring clinician Larry Lipkis

Larry Lipkis is a Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Moravian College. He directs the early music ensembles at the college (the Collegium Musicum, the Monteverdi Ensemble, and the Baroque Ensemble) and also teaches music theory, contemporary music, and composition. 

YouTube has a new channel. La Société de Luth (The French Lute Society) has a YouTube site.

The Over the Water Hurdy-Gurdy Festival brings together hurdy-gurdy players, builders, and teachers for intensive instruction, jamming, fellowship, and good food. Classes cover melodic techniques, rhythm, repertoire, and instrument setup and maintenance, with instruction tailored for beginning through advanced players.

Our final concert of the 2009-2010 season draws on music from both the Western and Eastern liturgical traditions.  In celebration of Easter, we are collaborating with the TACTUS Vocal Ensemble to present a selection of movements from Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah, a choral work by English composer John Tavener and several unaccompanied works from the Serbian Orthodox liturgy.

Muziekhandel Saul B. Groen B.V.  announce the arrival and availability of new titles through their website.

KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

• . Cavazzoni, M.A.     "Recerchari motetti canzoni lirbo primo" (1523) and Rercada from Castell'Arquato; facsimile edition and critical modern transciption       
• .Gallus, J. (Handl)     Compositions in keyboard intabulation; 20 motets transcr. in keyboard notation        
• .Sweelinck, J.Pz.     Organ and keyboard works, ed. S. Rampe: vol. II.2: polyphonic works, part 2      
• .mauscript     The Mutii Manuscript (1663): 30 works by Ferrini, Fontana, Arnò, Pasquini       
• .Richter, F.T.     (1651-1711): Works for clavier; critical edition
  
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News that the Tomaschek piano (ca.1855), recently restored in Buenos Aires by Leopoldo Pérez Robledo will be presented to the public in a concert offered on Sunday  April 18, 2010.

"The Legacy of the Baroque": An intensive course primarily focusing on the High Baroque, the Rococo and the early Classical Era

This programme will offer a unique opportunity to explore Baroque and early Classical Music and Dance with some of the world’s leading performers and scholars of this repertoire.

Although this is a programme for period-instrument players, advanced-level musicians with limited experience on period instruments may also apply, and appropriate instruments (flutes, oboes, violins, cellos, violas da gamba & keyboard instruments) will be available.

“The Compleat Singer: Bringing Movement, Passion and Projection to the interpretation of baroque vocal music” 

Participation in ‘The Compleat Singer’ offers a unique opportunity to explore & experiment in all aspects of the Baroque singer’s development. The setting is intimate, the attention is intensely individual and the results are completely inspirational. This is a laboratory, not an audition!

The course includes Masterclasses, Coachings, Private Lessons, Movement Classes and Discussions.

This year’s Festival has a special emphasis on Music by Monteverdi, to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of his Vespers of 1610: The Vespers, Staged Theatrical Works, Concerted Madrigals, Instrumental Music, and more! Also this summer: the French Baroque, the Rococo and the early Classical era, with works by Bach & sons, Mozart & Beethoven.

Michael Sand, violinist, will lead Sacramento Baroque Soloists to perform Vivaldi Concerto for Violin in A minor , Vivaldi Concerto for Cello and Bassoon, Telemann Concerto for Two Violas, Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1, Vivaldi Concerto "Alla Rustica", and Handel Passacaglia.

Church of San Giuseppe, Brescia
Saturday, May 15, 2010 9pm
         - free admission - 

“Recorder players from across North America celebrate March as "Play-the-Recorder Month." Many ARS chapters plan special concerts and presentations to illustrate the versatility and beauty of this wonderful instrument. 

“ After a long development process, I am pleased to offer these resin recorders of exceptional quality as an alternative to industrially-produced plastic recorders.

These hand-finished instruments, available at the pitches 442 Hz and 415 Hz, have all the features of professional recorders: curved labium and windway, undercut toneholes, cedar block, variable-taper bore, tapered block, etc.

“During the second half of the twentieth century the harpsichord made the remarkable transition from almost extinct historical curiosity to concert hall staple not just for early music but also for new music from composers including John Cage, Elliott Carter and Maurice Ohana. Wolfgang Zuckermann's $150 harpsichord kits, which were launched in 1959, were a major factor in the rehabilitation of the harpsichord, and Zuckermann supplied instruments to John Cage and many other musicians from his workshop in Greenwich Village, New York. 

Voices of Music presented "An Evening with the Stars" our Annual Charity Concert for the San Francisco Food Bank on March 20th, 2010. This year, the annual Charity Concert featured the winners from our Young Artists program performing a concert with the baroque players of Voices of Music, directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler.

Clarion Music Society and the New York Collegium are pleased to announce the schedule of events for their third annual Clarion-Collegium Week (CCW) for advanced music students and young professional musicians, and the details of the historically-informed performance of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespro della Beata Vergine, all taking place at Park Avenue Christian Church, 1010 Park Avenue at 85^th Street.

“When transsexual opera singer Emily De Salvo first applied to one of Italy’s most prestigious music schools, he was rejected as the board was unsure whether to place him among the male or female singers.

“Robert Barclay, conservation and restoration consultant, explores the aesthetic and psychological aspects of authenticity, and challenges the expectations of audiences when hearing historic instruments in concert.

Greensleaves, the Waterloo based early music ensemble (Marilyn Fung, viola da gamba; Shannon Purves-Smith, viols and recorders; Magdalena Tomsinska, lute), in November 2009 released a new CD titled "Polish Popular Music of the XVIIth century, Polska muzyka popularna XVII wieku." The program contains late Renaissance and early Baroque music, almost all of which has been drawn from the little-known "Polotsk" or "Połocki" manuscript (Jagiellonian Library), dating from the mid 1600’s. This collection of music was found in Poland in 1962 inside the cover of a missal dated 1680 and was published in modern notation in 1970. Until now, much of the music has not been heard.

A series of photos showing the restoration of an early Pajot luteback hurdy-gurdy. The tune in the background is variously known as Bourree de Pajot and Polka de Jenzat.