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(US) Ellen Hargis: Finding Treasure and Lute in Early Music (10-12 Sept. 2010)

Early Music Concerts 2010

Soprano Ellen Hargis will give three recitals with lutenist Paul O’Dette for the San Francisco Early Music Society in Palo Alto, Berkeley, and San Francisco on Sept. 10, 11, and 12. The program, titled “Wait! I’m Singing Now…,” will feature music of Strozzi, Kapsberger, Scarlatti, Cesti, and Piccinini. SFCV asked Hargis about her love of early music, the challenges of balancing singing and teaching, and what it’s like to work as an early-music star in a modern world. 

Published: Aug 26, 2010 - 02:03 AM
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(US) Clarion Music Society 2010-2011 Season

Early Music Concerts 2011

IN 2010-2011, CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY MAKES ITS LINCOLN CENTER DEBUT AND SPOTLIGHTS TWO PILLARS OF THE BAROQUE AGE

The Clarion Music Society is pleased to announce its concert season for 2010-2011: five concerts featuring the Clarion Orchestra, the Clarion Choir, and distinguished soloists, conducted by artistic director Steven Fox.  Prominent this season are works of the two most renowned pillars of the Baroque Age, J.S. Bach and G. F. Handel, the latter of whom will be the subject of our fourth annual Clarion Collegium Week.

Published: Aug 10, 2010 - 01:16 AM
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(US) Announcing the Addition to the WLSCM Catalogue of Two New Editions

Books/Manuscript We are pleased to announce the addition to the WLSCM (Society of Seventeenth-Century Music) Catalogue of two new editions. No. 18 is a series of Vespers psalm settings by Giovanni Paolo Colonna for various combinations of solo voices and string ensemble––some with optional choir––in an edition by Dr. Pyrros Bamichas of the University of Athens.

Published: Aug 09, 2010 - 11:31 PM
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(US) 4X4 Baroque Festival (26-30 August 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010 How can you spend an hour with J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and G. F. Handel this summer?  Attend the 4X4 Festival!  The festival's four concerts take place at at 7:30 pm on Thursday, August 26, Friday, August 27, Saturday, August 28, 2010, and Monday, August 30. 

Published: Aug 02, 2010 - 04:29 AM
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(US) Harmonia Early Music -- 1 hour long episode (July 19, 2010)

News 2010

Music of Mattheson and Fischer with the Koelner Akademie, Byzantine chant with John Michael Boyer, and Paul O’Dette performs lute pieces by Marco dall’Aquila.

The German period instrument orchestra known as the Koelner Akademie has been recording world-premieres since its inception. Led by American conductor Michael Alexander Willens, the Akademie has been a champion of famous and little-known composers whose music remains continues to remain relevant.

Published: Aug 02, 2010 - 04:20 AM
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(FR) Rencontres internationales de l' Abbaye de Vignogoul (29 July - 8 Aug. 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Exhibition, workshops and early music concerts in the Abbey of Vignogoul.

Exhibition:
Some instruments of the Orpheon Foundation, consisting of violins, violas, cellos, violones and violas da gamba from the 16th to the 18th C., restored to original condition, will be made available also to modern players interested in getting to know the historical musical instruments : truly a unique learning opportunity.

Published: Jul 02, 2010 - 05:42 AM
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(US) The Face of Bach (Teri Noel Towe)

Website News
The Face Of Bach is a website devoted to the portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach, and to the fair and accurate analysis of the various images that purport to be accurate depictions of the facial features of Johann Sebastian Bach.

As I continue to develop this site, I hope to offer thorough evaluations of the various Bach portraits and to provide information on the source materials that are the foundation for any discussion of the portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Published: Jun 30, 2010 - 07:48 PM
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(SE) Musikmuseet (Stockholm Music Museum) and the "Clavichord" application software (HansErik Svensson & Karl Dickson authors)

News 2010
Visit the Musikmuseet (Stockholm Music Museum) website where you will find more than 6400 artifacts of which many are period instruments.

Published: Jun 30, 2010 - 02:59 PM
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(US) Scanning a Stradivarius (Smithsonian.com)

News 2010
Medical 3-D imaging makes it possible to study the anatomy of the world's greatest stringed instruments – and uncover the secrets of its makers.

Published: Jun 29, 2010 - 02:57 PM
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(HU) Recorder Instruction in Hungary -- A perspective view by Árpád Zoltán Szabó

News 2010
I'd like to open a window to an aspect of recorder playing in Hungary with this message.

Music education in Hungary has a country-wide institution system which consists of music schools situated mostly in towns and maintained by the state.

Published: Jun 29, 2010 - 09:58 AM
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(DE) Stockstädter Musiktage (Stocktadt Recorder Exhibition/Festival) (14-16 May 2010) -- Photos/Videos on YouTube

Workshops/Festivals 2010
Here is a collection of photos and videos found on YouTube from the Stocktadt Exhibition/Festival of 14-16 May, 2010. If you did not attend this year, plan on attending next year. Stockstädter Musiktage is one of the largest recorder exhibition/festival in Europe.

Published: Jun 29, 2010 - 01:14 AM
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(IT) International Workshop on Diagnostics and Preservation of the Musical Instruments (May 20-21, 2010) -- CLOSED

Workshops/Festivals 2010

*** As a matter of interest this workshop has been posted past it’s deadline date.

Department of Histories and Methods for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
University of Bologna, Ravenna site
May 20-21, 2010

The conference, open to all museum professionals and curators, is aimed to present and critically discuss the latest researches about diagnostic techniques applied to musical instruments and advanced conservation practices, in relation also to fittings, use of materials, stockpile management, through the presentation of case studies.

Published: Jun 27, 2010 - 12:07 AM
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(DE) 1844 Kützing's The Science of the Piano Forte architecture (German language) - 1844 Das Wissenschaftliche der Fortepiano Baukunst

Books/Manuscript
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project
to make the world’s books discoverable online.

Published: Jun 26, 2010 - 11:49 PM
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(US) "Florilegium and the Bolivian Baroque Series" -- Harmonia Early Music Weekly Posting

News 2010
The English ensemble Florilegium has been exploring Bolivian baroque music for a number of years. Their latest Channel Classics recording, volume 3, focuses on repertoire found in Bolivia’s historic missions as well as the city of La Plata (the colonial name for Sucre, the capital of Bolivia). 

Published: Jun 25, 2010 - 03:22 PM
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(UK) Beethoven the Pianist (Tilman Skowroneck, author) (Cambridge University Press) (2010)

Books/Manuscript
The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a new, detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the composer's early career, outlining how he was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments.

Published: Jun 23, 2010 - 01:33 AM
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(CH) Fifth Edition of the Harmoniques International Congress in Lausanne «Chopin et son temps» (9-12 Sept. 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010
At the end of the 18th century, Vienna and London were the undisputed centres of piano-making, and home to distinct schools of piano-playing.

The beginning of the 19th century saw the rise of a new centre, Paris, which progressively eclipsed the other two. Nicknamed "Pianopolis", Paris in 1832 boasted more than a hundred and ninety-three piano-builders, many drawn from elsewhere in search of renown. Paris was a magnet, too, to young piano virtuosi ; it was only natural that Liszt and Chopin should be of their number.

Published: Jun 23, 2010 - 01:13 AM
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(DE) Digitizing Sensitive Manuscripts (Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ))

News 2010
The art of digitizing sensitive manuscripts are partly demystified on the Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) website. 

Published: Jun 23, 2010 - 12:43 AM
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(US) Early Music America Announces Annual Awards (1 June 2010)

News 2010
(SEATTLE, WA) Early Music America, the national service organization for the field of early music, announces the winners of its 2010 awards recognizing outstanding accomplishments in early music.

Published: Jun 20, 2010 - 11:44 PM
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(DE) Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig 2010 (Bach Competition in Leipzig) (7-17 July 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010
The XVII Leipzig Bach Competition will be held from the 7th-17th July 2010 in piano, harpsichord and violin / baroque violin.

Published: Jun 20, 2010 - 02:28 PM
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(US) An Exploration of the Countertenor in Rrecording From the 1960s to the 1980s -- Harmonia Early Music (30 Nov. 2009)

News 2010
The countertenor voice is one of most unusual and alluring sounds heard in Western classical music. It is the highest natural male voice and one that has been heard in recording with increasing frequency from the middle of the 20th Century to the present day.

Published: Jun 20, 2010 - 01:35 PM
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(TR) Magdalena Consort Concert at the International Istanbul Festivals (24 June 2010)

Early Music Concerts 2010
Presenting a programme of sacred and secular works by Händel and Bach for baroque lovers, the ensemble will appear at the Süreyya Opera House.

Published: Jun 20, 2010 - 01:22 PM
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(US) Voices of Music --Photos from the Berkeley Early Music Festival and Exhibition, 2010 and misc.

Workshops/Festivals 2010
Visit the Voices of Music photo albums of which you can find the following photo albums:

Published: Jun 20, 2010 - 01:08 PM
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(US) All Bach Celebration, featuring the Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM) (26 June 2010)

Early Music Concerts 2010
The inaugural concert of the new group The Baroque Orchestra of Maine or 'BOOM' will take place on Friday, June 25 at 7:00pm at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono, and will be featured in two other concerts. This baroque orchestra will perform an all Bach program on period baroque instruments.

Published: Jun 19, 2010 - 03:53 PM
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(US) Early Music Pub Crawl: San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV) Blogs the Berkeley Festival

News 2010
Festivals, unlike single concerts, are full-immersion events with lots of possibilities to explore all at once. In an effort to bring the festival experience closer to our readers, SFCV sent two writers — Jonathan Rhodes Lee, an experienced early-music performer and writer, and Jessica Hilo, an arts writer with less connection to the early-music world — to “blog” for a full day (last Saturday) at the Berkeley Festival. 

Published: Jun 19, 2010 - 03:43 PM
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(UK) Women Players in England, 1500–1660, edited by Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin (Ashgate, 2008)

Books/Manuscript
Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, and masquing. English travelers saw professional actresses on the continent and Italian and French actresses visited England.

Published: Jun 18, 2010 - 09:21 PM
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