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GALA BENEFIT - Saturday September 24th

“This season's kick-off Gala Benefit Concert, Dinner, and Auction will take place at the beautiful venue of Belvedere's St. Stephen's Church. Auction items include a trip to Bach's Germany, visiting his birthplace at Eisenach and moving on to Leipzig with a private tour of the Thomaskirche and dinner at the historic Auerbachs Keller with its 16th-century Faust murals. Other trips include a stay in the Black Hills of South Dakota in a beautiful log home with room for 6 (including air fare for 2) and a weekend stay in a 3-bedroom 3-bath home at gorgeous Northstar-at-Tahoe. 

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“Alison Crum is one of the best known British exponents of the viol. As teacher, performer, and moving-spirit behind several well-known groups, she travels all over the world giving recitals and lectures, and teaching on summer schools and workshops. 

“The 2011/12 Concert Season - Celebrating the 30th anniversaries of Jeanne Lamon and the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir.”

Not yet published - available from February 2012 

Edited by: Kate Flint, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Hardback
Series: The New Cambridge History of English Literature
ISBN: 9780521846257

“This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts.

Annual periodical of the“Socità Italian di Musicolgia” Marco Gozzi, director

Edition: Lucca, LIM, 2011 (Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, 46)
Pages: 340 +
ISBN: 978870966411

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“In 1985, the Ricercar Consort made their first tour with  J.S. Bach’s« Musicalisches Opfer », and is rapidly internationally known  for it’s interpretation of cantatas and instrumental music of the German Baroque ; numerous concerts are given with famous artists like Henri Ledroit, Max van Egmond and James Bowman.

375 Years of Hanover as the Seat of Nobility: Music at the Courts of the Guelphs in Lower Saxony

Concerts

North German Polychoral Music
Works by Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, and Matthias Weckmann
The Hannover Boys Choir & L'Arco Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Prof. Jörg Breiding

Heinrich Schütz in the 20th Century
Works by Heinrich Schütz, Kurt Thomas, Hugo Distler, and Ernst Pepping
North German Figuralchor, Musica Alta Ripa, conducted by Prof. Jörg Straube
  

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“The aim of the Viola da gamba-föreningen is to build and sustain a network of people interested in the viola da gamba and the music written for it. Amongst other things, the society wants to help organise playing opportunities, promote new music for the viol, provide information about concerts and courses, and act as a forum at which viol topics can be discussed.

FESTIVAL BAROQUE DE PONTOISE
7, place du Petit Martroy
95300 PONTOISE

“Push along with us the doors of this 26th edition and abandon yourselves to these beautiful promised nights.“

Celebrate our future with us as we unveil our new name
~ Nota Bene Baroque ~

“Enjoy fabulous mini-concerts by the Nota Bene musicians, rosewater-flavoured meringues (all the rage 300 years ago!) and other Baroque-inspired refreshments, Baroque games, a silent auction, period costumes, a 50/50 draw, cash bar, and a baroque instrument "Petting Zoo".

(Edited by Michael Kassler, Michael Kassler and Associates, Australia)
Published: August 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6065-1

“In contrast to today's music industry, whose principal products are recorded songs sold to customers round the world, the music trade in Georgian England was based upon London firms that published and sold printed music and manufactured and sold instruments on which this music could be played. The destruction of business records and other primary sources has hampered investigation of this trade, but recent research into legal proceedings, apprenticeship registers, surviving correspondence and other archived documentation has enabled aspects of its workings to be reconstructed. 
  

Folger Shakespeare Library
Address:
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

“Explore our garden, inspired by herbal references in Shakespeare's plays and also incorporating plants popular in his time, including lavender, creeping thyme, and English ivy; a knot garden; and Shakespearean statues by American sculptor Greg Wyatt. Folger docents offer insights into plantings, Elizabethan customs, and more.
  

A Gripping Account of One of the Great Forgotten Wars of History

ISBN: 9780195395235
Hardback, May 2011, 304 pp.
List Price: $27.95

“Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire—stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent—and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander’s mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions.  …
  

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Informative hurdy-gurdy website portal authored by Xavier Aimé with the cooperation of many who are involved in the world of the hurdy-gurdy.

“How the saga of Italian unification in 1861 is being (half-heartedly) celebrated by opera composers.

 Since its inception in the early 17th century, opera is a divisive artform in Italy.