Lute Society News

1. THE ITALIAN LUTE SOCIETY RIDES AGAIN! MISTAKE IN WEBSITE

Many people have pointed out that there was a mistake in the web address, which should read www.societadelliuto.it there is only one t in societa.

One piece of news- their first members’ meeting will be in Florence, on Saturday 23rd January 2011.

2. FUZEAU SPECIAL OFFER

Editions Fuzeau are offering 20% off on their Methodes et Traites series, including the treatises on the lute – visit their website for details.

3. CONCERT IN NORWICH 5th DECEMBER

Lute recital
Robin is to the Greenwood Gone.

Lute pieces by Dowland, Johnson and Holborne and settings of Elizabethan ballad tunes.
Yair Avidor (6 course lute by Paul Thomson)

Sunday 5 December 4 pm
King of Hearts, Norwich
£10 on the door or from the box office
http://www.kingofhearts.org.uk/

4. GORDON FERRIES’ BARTOLOTTI CD

New video to promote Gordon Ferries' new recording of Bartolotti's music for guitar and theorbo. It's on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2XE1dMfMg or website wwwgordonferries.com

Lute and Guitar Concerts October

1. BELSIZE BAROQUE CONCERT, LONDON 30TH OCTOBER

Belsize Baroque OrchestraSt James's Piccadilly, 30 October at 7.30 pm
Works by Arne, Handel and Boyce.
Soprano: Lisa RijmerTickets *
£12, Bookings 020 7381 0441*For further details: www.belsizebaroque.org.uk


2. CONCERT, YORK 16TH OCTOBER

The Secret Lover
Saturday 16 October 2010 7.00-8.00pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York

Early Music as you've never heard (or seen) it before! Theatrical Baroque ensemble Incandescenza bring you courtesans, singers, passionate love poems exchanged between nuns - and who knew baking could be so subversive? Poignant, tender, witty and rebellious, the untold stories of Renaissance women come to life in a theatrical tapestry woven from texts from early modern Europe and music by Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi.

Incandescenza: Rosemary Carlton-Willis soprano/director, Rosamund Cole soprano, Hugh Mackay actor, Elena Cicinskaite chitarrone, Andrew Passmore harpsichord/organ, Sam Stadlen baroque cello/viola da gamba

Tickets: £8.50; students/concessions £5.00
Box Office: 01904 432439. boxoffice@york.ac.uk
http://rosemary-soprano.tumblr.com/thesecretlover


3. LEEDS CONCERT OCTOBER 8TH

Friday 8 October 2010 at 7.30pm and 9:00pm
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music

Peter Martin - Lute
An opportunity, prior to his late-night recital, to explore the world of the lute, its repertoire, its history and its techniques. The workshop is open to all - including lute players and audience members.Lutenists: please register by emailing your details to: concerts@leeds.ac.uk

9:00pm-10pm – Late night recitalLutenist Peter Martin plays a programme drawn from one of the most important collections of late 16th-century English lute music, with music by Dowland, Holborne and Johnson, and their continental contemporaries Francesco da Milano and Philip van Wilder. Admission Free: subject to availability on the evening.

This performance is part of the City Wide Leeds Light Night Programme
http://www.lightnight.co.uk/leeds/index.php
Jillian Johnson,Concerts Administrator,University of Leeds Concert Series,The School of Music,The University of LeedsLEEDS LS2 9JTTel. 0113 343 2584 (Tuesdays and Fridays + voicemail)concerts@leeds.ac.uk


4. NIGEL NORTH CONCERT OCTOBER 29th, LONDON

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL
Oct 29th 7.45
Hall 1, KIng's Place
90 York Way
London N1 9AG

Nigel North (lute)
"The Heart Trembles with Pleasure"
Music for 11 course lute by S.L.Weiss
Launch concert for a new Cd on the BGS label

Nigel North
nigel.j.north@gmail.com



5. OXFORD CONCERT OCTOBER 16th

Saturday, October 16 · 1:30pm - 2:30pmThe Queen's College Chapel, The Queen's College, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AWentry: FREESilva de sirenas - 16th century Castilian music for the vihuela de manofeaturing music by Luys de Narváez, Enríquez de Valderrábano, Diego Pisador and Josquin des Prezplayed by Richard MacKenzie on a six-course vihuela de mano by Paul Baker (2010).

Concert Updates

SIXTEENTH STOKE NEWINGTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

SAINT MARY'S OLD CHURCH
STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH ST LONDON N16

THURSDAY 1st JULY 8.00 pm
Corbetta Geminiani Handel Matteis Straube
ayres and divisions
Taro Takeuchi baroque guitar Music for Early guitars Taro Takeuchi plays 17th and 18th music on original baroque guitars by Lambert and Marchal,18th century cittern (English guittar) by Preston and Perry. Works by Handel, Merchi, Straube and Geminiani.
More details are on http://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/english.htmhttp://www.stokenewingtonearlymusic.org.uk/index.htm



MONDAY 5th JULY 8.00 pm
Matthew Locke – consorts for viols
Ibrahim Aziz Vanessa Coode
Fiona Huggett and Suzanne Heinrich viols
Taro Takeuchi theorbo


WEDNESDAY 7th JULY 8.00 pm
Gesualdo and Monteverdi – motets
Carys Lane soprano Caroline Trevor alto
Simon Wall and Mark Dobell tenor
Thomas Guthrie bass


SATURDAY 10th JULY 8.00 pm
Buxtehude and Bach
sacred arias and cantatas
Katharine Fuge soprano Mark Radcliffe oboe
Bojan Cicic and Philip Yeeles violin
Vanessa Coode viol Christopher Bucknall organ


THURSDAY 15th JULY 8.00 pm
François Couperin
Les Nations – L'impériale and La piémontoise
Bojan Cicic and Philip Yeeles violin
Vanessa Coode viol
James Johnstone harpsichord



TICKETS £10/£7 SEASON £45/£30
CHILDREN FREE
Reservations 01865 308374
On sale at Bridgewood and Neitzert N16 or on the door
WINE/FRUIT JUICE AFTER EACH CONCERT
www.stokenewingtonearlymusic.org.uk



The French Connection
Lute recital by Willem Mook
King of Hearts, Norwich
7.30pm, Thursday 12 August 2010
http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/concerts2.htm#mook

Lute Music in the Lives of
Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Constantine Huygens

Edward Herbert served for some years as an ambassador in Paris, his famous Lute Book (nowadays in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) is one of the most important anthologies of lute music from the period 1600-1640 and it is a unique document of the influence of French music in English aristocratic circles.
Constantine Huygens, the younger of the two, claimed to have written some 800 compositions, of which a large number were for solo lute. Unfortunately a mere 40 songs with the lute of a very high level remain under the title Pathodia sacra et profana (printed in Paris 1647).
Both Herbert and Huygens seem to have had a clear preference for French lute music. In particular they shared an admiration for the music of Jacques Gautier. This temperamental French lute player entered the English court towards 1620, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book happens to be by far the most important source of Jacques Gautier's highly characteristic music, which is given a prominent role in this programmme.
Of a slightly older generation was the French Huguenot Nicolas Vallet, who chose his domicile in Amsterdam around 1612. His Secret des Muses (printed in 1616) is a remarkable fusion of lute music of French, Dutch and English styles. His music shows his high standard as a lute composer and a certain preference for the more popular repertoire, which gives his music a lighter touch than the more aristocratic repertoire of the Cherbury Lute Book.

Tickets £10.00 from King of Hearts Box Office 01603 611412
The King of Hearts, 7 - 15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, NR3 1LJ
This concert is in association with the 11th international summer lutemaking course. This year there are people coming from Australia, USA, France and England.
http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/summers.htm

-- The Smokehouse,6 Whitwell Road,Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk

News from the Lute Society

Don't forget the Lute Society meeting at the Dutch Church ,7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA, [nearest tubes, Bank, Liverpool Street] this Saturday 8th May.

It will be a day full of musical treats - don't miss it!

We will also have on sale a more or less complete range of French, Spanish, Belgian and Dutch lute society publications.

The timetable is:

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Gestures in lute song, talk and demonstration by Rosemary Carlton-Willis, accompanied by David Miller
12.00 Mini-recital of Sanz and Vivaldi transcriptions on 13 course lute, played by Dale Harris.
12.30 Break for lunch

2.00 Mini-recital of lute songs performed, self-accompanied, by David Protheroe2.30 AGM3.45 Tea

4.15 The Lute Society recital, David van Ooijen and Michiel Nissen play the virtuoso renaissance lute duets of Terzi

No need to book - just turn up, and bring friends if you wish.

Hope to see you there.

IMPORTANT NOTICES ABOUT THE OXFORD RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND, AUGUST 20-22.
Two important notices:
1. We haven't finalised the contract yet, IF YOU ARE THINKING OF COMING, PLEASE EXPRESS PREFERENCE FOR ENSUITE/NON ENSUITE ROOMS ETC. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, THIS WEEK IF POSSIBLE - so that we can book the appropriate number of rooms.

2. No conference venue is perfect - the big problem in Oxford will be parking which is very expensive there. The university generally advises people to come by public transport - which in turn means that we will have to plan carefully which lutes to bring. If a few individuals with big cars are prepared to give lifts from their region to fellow participants and a carfull of lutes, then we may well pay overnight parking fees on your behalf. PLEASE SAY IF YOU ARE PREPARED FOR YOUR CAR TO BE A 'LUTE CARRIER'

News from the Lute Society

1. URGENT - LUTENIST NEEDED CONCERT -

Friday 26th March,

Charlton House,

London, 13.00

Would anybody be interested in performing in a one-hour lunchtime concert at Charlton House, London on the 26th March?

The ensemble currently consists of members Rie Kosaka (winner of the Ella Kidney prize) and Callum Armstrong (recordist), both currently studying at Trinity College of Music. The concert consists mainly of 16th-century Spanish repertoire and the lutenist would be asked to play some solos (no preference) and to accompany the songs (Rie has a wonderful voice and is very pleasant to work with) on either the renaissance lute or vihuela (there is no preference). The concert series and venue is very congenial, with a regular audience.

As goes rehearsals, Rie and Callum are very accommodating and its all negotiable, they'll be very pleased to have any capable player. Rie will even cover the travel fees involved. If any tablatures are awkward I myself will be very happy to do all the typesetting and to make the whole business consume as little time as possible. The concert series provides great performance opportunities and decent exposure on the London platform.

Any enquires, please don't hesitate to contact Richard MacKenzie at:chalumeau_mackenzie@hotmail.com

2. OXFORD CONCERT ON MARCH 13th
Richard invited you to "The Golden Age" on Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pm.
Event: The Golden Age "Renaissance polyphony by candlelight "What: ConcertStart Time: Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pmEnd Time: Saturday, March 13 at 9:15pmWhere: Merton College Chapel

3. TASTER OF ANNE BOLEYN ROLLERBLADING AT THE TOWER
As a PS to yesterday’s announcement, if you want to see Stephanie Feeney the guise of a rollerblading Anne Boleyn, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HThxPe0hJU

4. FEATURING THE VOICE OF MERIT STEPHANOS
Dear All
Next Monday at 8pm Channel 4 is broadcasting a documentary on Channel 4, I am singing on the soundtrack.
It is called 20:00 DISPATCHES: CHILDREN OF GAZA
Do watch it if you are around .
All best wishes
Merit

5. CITTERN WANTED

A Lute Society member would like to buy a budget-priced (£500 or less) renaissance chromatic 4 course cittern, perhaps such as the ones the Early Music Shop used to sell (they are currently redesigning theirs and it won’t be ready until 2011). Having searched the web and drawn a blank, he’d be very grateful if members with a surplus cittern to sell would contact Ian at lutenist@blueyonder.co.uk

Lute Society news...Got any spare cash?

Sunday 7th March,

7:30pm

Andrew Maginley Baroque Lute Gods, Mortals & Musketeers

• Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651)Prélude- Gigue-Courante- Courante- Sarabande


• Denis Gaultier (1603-1672)Pavanne, Allemande, Ulisse, Minerve, Sarabande


• Denis Gaultier Orphée, Echo, L’Homicide, Apollon orateur, Diane au bois


• Jacques Gallot (c.1625-1695) Les Trois Mousquetaires


• Jacques Gaultier (fl. 1617-1652) Sarabande L’Espagnoletta


• Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Boureé, Sarabande, Menuet, Gigue


• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Suite for violoncello transcribed for lute, BWV 1007 Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet I & II, Gigue

Andrew Maginley is hailed as the most dynamic lutenist of his generation. A native New Yorker and Fulbright Scholar, Andrew has since 1995 lived in Germany, and now in the UK, working as solo recitalist and high profile continuo player throughout Europe, the UK and North America. His second solo recording, Andrew Maginley – The Baroque Lute, on Avie Records, has been highly praised. He has given solo recitals at the Bachhaus in Eisenach, Germany, the Bloomington Early Music Festival and the New York City Early Music Series, as well as playing live on BBC Radio 3.

Tickets £11 Including a glass of wine Plus a £1 donation to charity

BOX OFFICE 07967 481 625

THE DYSART ARMS 135 Petersham Road Richmond Surrey TW10 7AA

http://www.thedysartarms.co.uk/enquiries@thedysartarms.co.uk

2. LUTE WORKSHOP IN YORKSHIRE
Lute Workshop Day with Jacob Heringman 20th February, Richmond, North Yorks.

WHONEEMF (North East Early Music Forum) invites players of lute and other plucked instruments to a playing day. The format will be flexible, depending on numbers. It will include a session of ‘open lessons’ in which people come to the front and play something, and Jacob brings up points which will be relevant to the group as a whole. He has found that observing and discussing in this way is a really good way to learn.

There will be ensemble playing for three or four lutes, where we can use the different spaces in the Zetland Centre, and Jacob will circulate; music will be provided mostly in tab, with some in score (with figured bass). After lunch there will be a talk on a particular topic, such as playing counterpoint on the lute – bringing out the voices.

There will be time for questions, answers and discussions. Pitch for the ensemble playing will be A=440 Hz. Jacob Heringman has established himself as one of the world's most respected and most innovative solo lute players. He appears on over 50 CDs as a soloist, collaborator and ensemble player. WHENSaturday 20th February 2010. 10.00 am (tea, coffee, etc) for 10.30am start. It ends at 4.00 pm.Refreshments at breaks included. Please bring lunch, or use local cafés, etc.

WHERE Zetland Centre, Victoria Road, Richmond, N. Yorks. DL10 4AS.

Nearby is Richmond’s theatre, Britain’s most complete Georgian theatre.

During the lunch break, there is an optional tour of the theatre with one of the trustees.

COST£15; concessions £12 (state-only pensioners, unemployed); full time students £6.

BOOKING For more information and the booking form, see http://www.neemf.org.uk/, or contact Gill Knowles knowles.shadwell@ntlworld.com

3. LUTE SONG CONCERT
Musica Transalpina - a Mediterranean Musical Hour

Wednesday 10th February 2010

12:15pm with lunch - 1:10pm concert only Alessandra Testal (soprano) Robin Jeffrey (lute and guitar) at the Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on Thames

For details see http://www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/

4. IF YOU HAVE £850,000 POUNDS TO SPARE
A portrait of Nicholas Lanier, dating from 1613 is on show in the Weiss Gallery, in Jermyn Street. They are just in the process of publishing a book on the painting, with essays by Sir Roy Strong, Duncan Thomson, Tim Wiks, Peter Walls amongst others, which will be available at the end of the month. As for the price, the painting is going to be offered for sale at around £850,000.

With best wishes, Mark Weiss -The Weiss Gallery 59 Jermyn Street London SW1Y 6LX+ 44 (0) 207409 0035

http://www.weissgallery.com/ http://www.weissgallery.com/>

5. GUITAR CONCERT

The Bromley Guitar Society (That's us Folks! Ed.) are pleased to announce a concert performance by Nora Buschmann for Saturday April 17th at St Marks Church (Westmoreland Road) in Bromley. Nora is an exciting and highly talented recitalist and teacher, receiving international accolades in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Spain, South America and the Ukraine. Her appearance for the Bromley Guitar Society marks her UK debut and we are eagerly anticipating a fantastic evening. Her performance program for Bromley consists of works by Villa Lobos, Domeniconi, Barrios Mangore and Mertz.

Tickets charges are set at £10 per adult , £5 per child/student, £25 per family (two Adults two children).

Click here for flyer

Victoria and Albert Museum- Closure of Music Galleries call for action

I have included this letter from Chris Godwin as a matter of public interest. Please support Chris in ensuring that the Music Gallery remains available for the rest of us!

You may by now have heard the alarming news that on 22nd February the V&A museum in London is to close its musical instrument galleries permanently. The instruments, which constitute one of the world's great collections, and have been a vital resource in musical education and the early music revival, will go into storage and will only be available for viewing by special request.

The space currently dedicated to historic instruments will be given over to more fashion displays - as if there weren't enough about fashion and fashion history in the media already; the V&A probably hope to attract more visitors in this way to a more 'popular' display.

All is not entirely lost; there are plans to redisplay the instruments in few years time at the Horniman Museum or elsewhere.

But obviously now is the time for as many people as possible to make their feelings known. The decision was taken personally by the Director, so the best way to register dismay, and urge for the redisplay of the instruments to take place as soon as possible, is to write to him personally:

Mark Jones, Director
V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Also you can write an email, asking for it to be forwarded to him to Sarah Medlam, e: s.medlam@vam.ac.uk

And there is a facebook petition at

http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=257514797266&mid=1be8e13G2c449905G49bf0e2G6

Do write to one or all of these if you have the time.

best wishes
Chris Goodwin

News from the Lute Society

CHAMBER PLAYERS WANTED


Lute player seeks young musicians (students) from New Forest area (Southampton, Salisbury, Bournemouth) to perform Renaissance chamber music together:- viola da gamba player- singer- flute playerContact: Kate Siewiera, email: katarzynamilek76@gmail.com, tel.:07920116048.



2. JACOB HERINGMAN CLASSES AT EARLY MUSIC SHOP

By the way - I may have missed this from the LS... but Jacob Heringman will be giving lessons at the Early Music Shop in Saltaire, Bradford on December 4th and 18th.
I don't know how reservations have gone. I've booked mine at £30 for an hour. Is it worth circulating/

Alan



3. MAJOR GUITAR MUSIC SALE

Dear Musician

Morley harps in England who have been in business from 1817 and purchased the old Erard Business in London in1890 with that purchase came a library of music and music books.


We have now decided to sell , first the Guitar Music Library and I enclose x l files of some of the music, and a pdf file of some of the Etchings and prints.

The sale of Guitar music will be in February and the harp music will be 2010-2111

If you would like details of the sale , or are interested in any item please make contact

Clive Morley clive@morleyharps.com

NB The adobe file of pictures will not print out and should only be viewed on computer
21 prints / etchings

Clive Morley
Clive Morley Harps Ltd
Goodfellows
Filkins Lechlade
Gloucestershire England GL7 3 JG



4. FROLICK DATES NEXT YEAR

The Frolick announces two new dates for your 2010 diary - We hope to see you there!
Tuesday 23rd February 2010 – ‘The Frolick with Calliope’ at 22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR to celebrate the launch of The Friends of The Frolick. We are delighted to be invited by Bob and Elisabeth Boas to perform at their beautiful home in London’s West End, and we hope that you will take this opportunity to join us to celebrate our Friends launch as part of their exclusive concert series. Evenings at the Boas’ are always fabulously enjoyable occasions. Drinks reception at 7pm, Music from 7.30, Drinks and conversation after the concert. For further details please email us at info@thefrolick.com

Wednesday 7th July 2010 – ‘The Frolick with Calliope’ at Buckingham Summer Festival, Radclife Centre, Church Street, Buckingham.

Further details from Buckingham Summer Festival nearer the time.

Both these concerts will feature Emma Curtis (contralto, director), Andrew Maginley (lute and baroque guitars, director), Jim O’Toole (baroque violin/folk fiddle), Frances Kelly (triple harp, celtic wire-strung harp) and Natasha Kraemer (baroque ‘cello) in an evening of frivolity, sophistication, exuberance and wit. www.thefrolick.com/AboutUs.html

The Frolick with Calliope -
In London in the 1740s, a time when society prized illusion and intrigue above all, subverting the accepted sexual system was fair game. Men with high voices ruled the stage, and cross-dressing abounded for comic affect or for survival. Londoner's have not changed so much in three-hundred years. Songs are still about the same things: Girls that are just after money; others searching for real love; a guy who wants to get a date; and even the best friend that wants to take him out to drown his sorrows. Poetry and fantasy combine with the luminous colours of original baroque instruments to create an opulent adventure in 18th-century entertainment.
If you would like to support The Frolick but are unable to join us for a performance please send an email to info@thefrolick.com



5. CORNISH LUTE CONCERT

DEC 19TH @ St Ia's Church, St Ives, Cornwall - BEN SALFIELD'S 21ST ANNIVERSARY CONCERT A special concert by Ben Salfield (lute) to celebrate 21 years of professional performances, at the venue where his career began.

The performance includes sets by Daughters of Elvin, the medieval music group, Moorish fusion trio Horsemen of the Apocalypse and classical guitar legend Andrea Dieci, who is coming out for Milan especially for the show. Tickets are £12 for adults, with accompanied under 16s FREE. Please call 01872 263170 for reservations. Thanks buddy, people here still talk of your performance at the Tolmen Symposium! Regards Ben
Ben Salfield
BMMI
PO Box 32
Truro TR1 3TZ

bensalfield@hotmail.com



6. NOT LUTES BUT FLUTES

if you happen to be free this lunchtime, Friday 27th Nov, do come to the concert given by four fab flutes,
or forward this email to amyone who might be interested. Thank you Julia Raeburn

four fab flutes ......
(Mary Ann Kernan Marianne McGhee Janice Norman Julia Raeburn)
St Johns Church Spencer Hill (St Johns Rd)
Wimbledon SW19 4NZ

Fri 27th Nov 1.00-1.45 (latest) free admission
programme includes "Jour d'ete a la Montagne" by Eugene Bozza
the wonderful foot-tapping "Gaelic Offering" quartet by Catherine McMichael
...and arrangements of other dance-pieces - e.g. Lord of the Dance and the Floral Dance


7. SHORT FILM SHOWING,

including one featuring Stephanie Feeney and her lute, tonight 25th November, 8pm, Roxy Bar and Screen, 128 Borough High St, London SE1 1LB


8. LATIN AMERICAN XMAS


Thames Valley Early Music Forum
A Latin-American Christmas
A workshop for singers and instrumentalists with Jeffrey Skidmore
Sunday 6th December 2009, 10am for 10.30 until 5.30pm
at the Drake Hall, Amersham Community Centre, Chiltern Avenue, Amersham, Bucks HP6 5AH

You are invited to our annual Christmas workshop which this time is for singers, and players of viols, violin family, cornett, sackbut, curtal, a limited number of recorders and as much plucked and keyboard continuo as possible. Pitch will be A=440. Jeffrey writes that the day will be “an exploration of the extraordinary Baroque music of Latin American with its fusion of Amero-Indian, European and African elements. We will perform in Inca and Aztec languages as well as Spanish and Latin and look at music from Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.”

Jeffrey Skidmore is well-known for exciting programming which is often challenging but always accessible. He read music at Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to his native Birmingham to develop Ex Cathedra into the internationally-acclaimed choral group it has become today. He is a pioneer in the field of research and performance of neglected choral works of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and has won wide acclaim in particular for his recordings of French and Latin American Baroque music with Ex Cathedra for Hyperion. He has directed the first performances of many new editions, including two French Baroque operas, Zaide by Royer and Isis by Lully. As well as concentrating on conducting and research, he is artistic director of the Early Music Programme at the Birmingham Conservatoire and a regular conductor at Dartington International Summer School as well as many workshops around the Country.

The day will start with coffee at 10.00 am and finish by 5.30 pm. Lunch is likely to be from about 12.30 until 1.45 and, as usual at our Christmas event, will be communal. You are asked to bring a contribution - to the first course if your surname starts with A to M and to the second if it starts with N to Z. You may choose to be inspired by our Latin-American theme but that isn’t essential. Please put perishable contributions in the fridge when you arrive, and leave anything that would be better kept cool in your car (if you came in one), assuming that the weather is cold. A glass of wine or juice will be provided, as will bread and butter. Please be prepared to volunteer on the catering front at some time during the day, as there will be lots to do (though the Centre has an excellent dishwasher).

Amersham Community Centre is only a few minutes walk from Amersham station. Turn right out of the station and follow the road round past the Health Centre and the library. The Community Centre is on the right almost immediately after the pedestrian crossing, and the hall is in the building on the right at the back of the car park, almost opposite the entrance. There is work on the line so those coming by train will need to catch the 9.15 to Beaconsfield from Marylebone followed by a bus, arriving at Amersham station at 10.05. Don’t forget to book to Amersham, not Beaconsfield. The return connecting bus leaves Amersham station at 5.40 pm and we will stop in time for you to catch it. Please check these times on the Chiltern Railways web site nearer the time. There is space on the form to offer or ask for a lift. Parking is free at the Community Centre and in the library car park. If you search http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ for the post code HP6 5AH you will see the Centre just underneath the arrow.

The cost will be £10 for Early Music Forum members, £12 for others. The hall is a large one, but this is likely to be a popular course so please book early to be sure of a place. Maps, receipts and acknowledgements will not be sent out unless requested with a SAE or email address. You can assume you have been accepted unless you hear to the contrary. Please send the attached form before November 21st to: Victoria Helby, 50 Sheepfold Lane, Amersham HP7 9EJ (01494 721582 not between 4 & 7 on weekdays) secretary@tvemf.org. (Please use a separate cheque if you are also applying to the baroque chamber music day.)

News from the Lute Society

1. CONCERTS WITH MERIT STEPHANOS

Dear all
I wanted to let you know about my next concerts. None of them are in London, but if you are anywhere near the places they will happen, please do come along! I have posted links so you can have a look and below is a little blurb about the programme with The Clerks.

With all best wishes

Merit Stephanos


With JOGLARESA (http://www.joglaresa.com)
FRIDAY 23rd OCTOBER - BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Friday 23 October, Brighton 8pm St George’s, Kemptown
Brighton Early Music Festival
http://www.bremf.org.uk/


With THE CLERKS (http://www.theclerks.co.uk/programmes_Qudduson.html )

WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER, CAMBRIDGE http://http://www.ncem.co.uk/
THURSDAY 29th OCTOBER, CARDIFF http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/
SATURDAY 31st OCTOBER, YORK http://www.ncem.co.uk/


Qudduson – Sanctus – Holy: the word reverberates through the sacred music of East and West. In this new programme, The Clerks join three Middle Eastern singers steeped in Islamic and Christian music.
Qudduson presents Middle Eastern chant and Western polyphony side-b-yside. The ancient Syriac liturgy of Aleppo – thought to be the oldest Christian chant repertoire in the world, the Islamic music of Sufism and songs from the Coptic Egypt are set alongside chant and polyphony from the Cathedral repertories of the Western Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Repertoire includes chant from the ancient chant from the Syriac, Byzantine and Maronite tradtions, Islamic chanting and improvisation and classical songs.
Music from the European Middle Ages and early Renaissance includes Gregorian chant and organum, polyphony by Palestrina, Pierre de la Rue and Giaches de Wert and a song by John Dowland.

A special commission by Robert Saxton will combine the various vocal forces involved in Qudduson.

For Qudduson, The Clerks are joined by George Qas-Barsoum is a bass soloist at the Church of Hayy Surian in Aleppo, which was built by refugees fleeing Edessa in the 1920s. His experience and knowledge of singing the Syriac Orthodox liturgy of this ancient community, some of the oldest Christian chant in the world, is unsurpassed.

Abdul Salam Kheir (Lebanese) specialises in Muwashahat (classical Arab song) as both singer (baritone) and oud player.

Merit Ariane Stephanos is a Coptic Egyptian/German singer and composer who draws on Arabic and Western classical contemporary influences in her music.
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merit ariane stephanos
www.myspace.com/meritariane
0044-7971-339398

2. GUITAR CONCERT THIS SUNDAY

Luigi Boccherini

Guitar Quintets

7 p.m. Sunday 25th October

St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UR

The Benavente Quintet

Judy Tarling and Ilana Cravitz – violins, Rosalind Hanson – viola
Lynden Cranham – ’cello, Peter Lay – guitar
(period instruments)

Tickets £10 (concessions £7) including wine
available from: judytarling@btinternet.com (01435 830839), Bastow’s Classics, 50 North Street, Chichester (01243 533264)
or on the door



3. SALE OF CDS ETC

James Evinson writes:

Tragedy!! I have reached the stage where I cannot keep collecting things (music, CDs and lute-related items excepted!) and am looking to find homes for a few items.

I have a small pile of back issues of "Early Music News" magazines, dating from July/Aug '99 to Oct '03 (the last issue). Primarily news about the Early Music world and comprehensive UK-wide concert listings, each issue is around 12-16 pages. They are hole-punched for filing purposes (a handy A4 size), but otherwise in perfect condition. If anyone would like them for their archive, I will let them go to a good home for the price of postage & packing.

In addition to the above, I have a number of duplicate Lute CDs, from the time when I thought it might be a good idea to have a selection available for sale at Lute Society meetings. The lute world is much wider than just those who attend meetings, so CG has kindly consented to circulate the list of what I have available to all LS members. All are new, most (but not all) are still cellophane-wrapped. I will deal with all enquiries democratically on a "first come/first served" basis, although I do have some duplicates.

Cost would be £5 per CD, plus postage (£1 UK / £2 Europe / £3 USA & everywhere else). I can accept cheque (£ sterling), paypal (james_evinson@hotmail.com) or simply bring cash to the next Lute Society meeting.

Finally, if anyone is looking for a specific recording not on the list below, please drop me a line with details and I will let you know if/where I find a copy available.


CD Recordings for sale

NAXOS

Dowland - Consort Music & Songs (Rose Consort/Catherine King / Herringman) 8.55326, 1997

Weiss - Sonatas for Lute Vol 2, no's 5, 25, 50, (Robert Barto) 8.553988, 1999

Weiss - Sonatas for Lute Vol. 3, no's 2, 27 & 35 (Robert Barto) 8.554350, 1999

Weiss - Sonatas for Lute, vol. 4, no's 21, 37 & 46 ((Robert Barto_) 8.554557, 2001

Music of the Italian Renaissance (Shirley Rumsey) 8.550615, 1994

Music of the Spanish Renaissance (Shirley Rumsey) 8.550614, 1993

da Milano, Fantasias, Ricercars & Duets (C. Wilson / S. Rumsey) 8.550774, 1994

Holborne / Robinson, Pavans & Galliards for Lutes (C. Wilson / S. Rumsey) 8.553874, 1998

German Lute Songs (Martin Hummel, bar. / Karl-Ernst Schroder, Lute) 8.55935, 2002

Harmonia Mundi

Baroque Lute Music vol. 1, GG Kapsberger (Paul O'Dette) HCX 3957020, 2001 (reissue)

Baroque Lute Music vol. 2, da Milano, Borrono, lo'Aquila & de Rippe (Paul O'Dette) HCX 3957043, 2001 (reissue)

EMI Classics

Lautengalanterie - Falckenhagen, Baron, Hagen (Anthony Bailes), 8 26520, 2000 (reissue of 1979 recording to CD)

Lautenmusik von S.L. Weiss (Hopkinson Smith), 8 26513, 2000 (reissue of 1978 recording to CD)

Everything Else

European Lute Music (single CD selection from 4-CD set). (Konrad Rogossnig) Eloquence, DG 469 679-2

Varietie of lute-lessons (Lutz Kirchhof) - Sony, Seon SKB 60098, 1998 (reissue of 1982 recording)

Bach on the Lute, vol. II - BWV 1006, 1003 & 1005 (Nigel North) - Linn Records, CKD 029, 1994

Greensleeves, A Collection of English Lute Songs (Julianne Baird/Ronn McFarlane) - Dorian DOR 90126, 1989

The Mad Lover (works by Blow, Lawes, Boyce, Parry, etc) (Evelyn Tubb, sop./Frances Kelly, triple harp). Musica Obscura 070987, 1993

Nutmeg & Ginger, Spicy ballads from Shakespeare's London (Musicians of the Globe/Pickett) Philips, 456 507-2, 1999.

News from the Lute Society

1.CONCERT IN YORKSHIRE

Could you please let members know of the following concert...
7.30pm Saturday 3rd October 2009Lastingham Church, Nr. Helmsley, North Yorkshire (a truly beautiful 13thcentury church with Norman crypt and wonderful acoustics).

Dante Ferrara on lute, citterns, orpharion, colascione and hurdy-gurdyincluding works by F. da Milano, Molinaro, Kapsberger, Dowland, Johnson,Holborne, Purcell. With guests Mike Sargeant on recorders, crumhorns andvarious pipes and Richard Haynes on baroque hurdy-gurdy.

Admission free - donations in aid of church fund.

2. CONCERT IN LONDON

This Sunday – 4 October 2009 – at 5pm

The Lantana Ensemble
Monteverdi and his World
Directed from the keyboard by Peter Holman

St. Mary’s Church, Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 9ES

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. Discount advance online tickets £10 at http://www.ilanacravitz.com/shop.html

Transport: The church is opposite Clissold Park. Bus 393 passes the church & 73 (from Angel tube) and 476 within 25 yards. Note that Stoke Newington Church Street is currently one way (east-west) so diversions are in operation. Ask the bus driver if it’s best to get off at the last stop on Albion Road. Close to Stoke Newington railway station (Liverpool Street-Enfield line).

Nearest tubes with bus connections: Manor House (bus 141 or 341 southwards); Finsbury Park (bus 106) ; Highbury & Islington (bus 393 to Clapton).

3. XMAS LUTE SONGS FROM JAMES BOWMAN

Green Growth the Holly
James Bowman and Dot Linnell perform Elizabethan Xmas music for lute and countertenor
St Catherine’s Church, Houghton on the Hill, LE7 9GD
2nd December at 7.45
Tickets £12 from roger@cigol.com or 01162 412849

News from the Lute Society

1. PURCELL CONCERT AND DANCE DISPLAY
Orpheus Britannicus, A Dance of the Hearts, presented by the Mercurius Company
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace SW1X 9DQ, 0207 730 4500 http://www.cadoganhall.com/7.30 pm, Friday 18th Septermber 2009
Looks like a good show!

2. LUTE PLAYER IN LEICESTER SQUARE TALENT SHOW
Stephanie Feeney is singing and playing in the Cheese n’ crackers talent show in at the Leicester Square theatre tomorrow night, see http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/events.asp?eventid=71 for details

3. LUTE SONGS THIS WEEKEND IN CORNWALL
Jeni Melia, Chris Goodwin, Kathryn Hamilton Hall are doing their lute song [Campion, Dowland, Purcell etc] and poetry show, Sister Awake! depicting the life of a 17th century woman, plus some new song settings of 17th century women’s poetry, by Brian Wright, performed by Jeni and Brian, in the South West this weekend:
Friday 28th August, St Clement’s Chruch, Withiel, 7.30pm – details from Simon Coy. 01208 831906Sunday 30th, Stuart House, Liscard, 2.30 pm, - details from info@stuarthouse.org.ukSunday 30th August, 8pm The Old Methodist Chapel, Treligga, near Delabole, details: 01208 814138

4. TAKE THE RISK –

at the South Bank CentreFriday 2 – Sunday 4 October 2009Southbank Centre, LondonTake the Risk is a weekend exploring improvisation in early music, curated by lutenist Paula Chateauneuf and featuring some of the most innovative, experimental and exciting performers in this field.

From beguiling Sephardic songs and hurdy-gurdy extemporisations to the sophisticated music of the European courts, here are musicians encouraging themselves and their fellow performers to take a risk and rediscover a performing power that was once a given for classical musicians. Featuring performances by Paula Chateauneuf’s new group The Division Lobby, Stevie Wishart on medieval fiddle and hurdy-gurdy, The Orlando Consort, Erin Headley’s new group Atalante, and lutenist Crawford Young and Friends, plus a talk, open rehearsal, and open workshop.

For full details and to book, please visit http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ or call 0871 663 2500.

Katie Vickers

Marketing Officer

Southbank Centre

News and Concert Gigs

1. WANTED: LUTE PLAYER FOR CHARITY GIG, CANCER RESEARCH, HAMPSHIRE, 25TH SEPTEMBER

Please contact Liz directly at phone no. below or on lizebether7@btinternet.com if you could play for them.

The event is in support of The Red & White Appeal (see http://www.redandwhiteappeal.org/ for more information).

The theme of the event is a rustic banquet in the style of Merry Olde England, which is to be held on a large private estate in Hampshire.

The guest list includes high profile individuals and businesses. We have a short time scale to organise it due to the late offer of the venue. The date is 25th September, and we are looking for a performer/s to enhance the atmosphere for the period of the Reception which will be between approx 6.45 - 8.15 pm, and will take place in a marquee.

I would be grateful if you could circulate this to your members in the hopes that there may be some that could assist us. I look forward to hearing from you. I can be contacted during work hours on tel: 023 8079 5276 or at any time on my mobile 07929 764618.

Thank you for your help.

With best wishes,

Liz Hole

Fundraising Officer

Southampton Hospital Charity

2. CONCERT, LONDON, 7th OCTOBER

Pantagruel are performing their programme Laydie Louthians Lilte at the East Finchley Arts Festival on Wednesday 7 October at 7.30pm, at All Saints Church, Durham Road, London N2 9NH.

Their semi-staged performances of renaissance songs and dances bring to life the passionate music of a distant age, with the pure and sweet voice of Anna Maria Antonius Wierød combined with citterns, gitterns, lutes and flutes played by Mark Wheeler and Dominik Schneider.

The largest source of instrumental music from this period of Scottish history can be found in many manuscripts of tablature for the plucked instruments, lute, cittern or mandora. These manuscripts contain often very short and rudimentary settings of pieces such as The Laydie Louthains Lilte, Put on your shirt on Monday, Kathreen Oggie, Its worse nor deathe to pairt withe the, Love is a labour in vaine, etc, which form the basis of Pantagruel’s arrangements and improvisations in this programme.

Many of these tunes can also be found in the numerous editions of the English Publisher John Playford (1623-1686), including his famous dance tutor “The English Dancing Master” (numerous edition between 1651 & 1723), which shows the increasing vogue for Scottish music in 17th century England.

Further information at http://www.eastfinchleyartsfestival.org.uk/ (tickets £15 and £10, concessions £12 and £8, under 18s £1, available from 1 September) and from http://www.pantagruel.de/.

The Festival also includes a lunchtime recital by viola da gamba duo Claire Bracher and Liam Byrne on Saturday 3 October at 12.30pm, including music by Gibbons, Christopher Simpson, M. de Ste. Colombe, Marais and Schenk. Tickets £5 (under 18s £1) http://www.claire-bracher.net/

Many thanks!
Best wishes,Jill

Jill Daviesmailto:Daviesjill@daviesmusic.org.uk

+44 (0)20 8888 615507721 317030 20

Elvendon Road

London

N13 4SJ

Full details of all artists and their current performances can be found at http://www.daviesmusic.org.uk/

3. RADIO 4 PROGRAMME, ‘LUTING THE PAST’, ON BBC LISTEN AGAIN – FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS

You can catch this wonderful programme about Jakob Lindberg’s restored Sixtus Rauwolf lute
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00m17qg

It originally went out on 18th August and was repeated today Saturday, at 3.30

4. ANOTHER PETITION ABOUT THE LICENSING ACT

Hi again,

Hot on the heels of an earlier petition in support of live music.

I have been sent details of another petition which this time is supported by the Morris Federation and is in support of removing licenses for small venues.
It is a further effort to protect our interests that will benefit from your support.
A petition calling on the Prime Minister to stop using the Licensing Act to criminalise live music and to implement amendments that would exempt small gigs has gained over 1000 signatures since it was launched last Monday, 27

July:http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/livemusicevents/Please consider signing. If you support the petition, pleasecirculate the link above as widely as possible.

All the best,

Ray Black

5. LUTE SONG RECITAL, 6TH SEPTEMBER, ST ALBANS

Annabella Tysall - soprano
David Miller - lute and theorbo

Works by Dowland, Purcell, Mesangeau & Robert de Visée
6th Sept 2009, 4pm

Woodmansterne Sunday Tea-Time Concerts, The Town Hall, Market Place, St Albans

Tickets £10 from Angela, 01923200619, angela@woodmansterne.co.uk or

Tourist Information 01727864511 and on the door

News from the Lute Society

1. LUTE CONCERT, NORWICH 15th AUGUST

Il Divino and the English Orpheus
A lute recital of music by Francesco da Milano and John Dowland
Jacob Heringman
Saturday 15th August
7.30 pm
King of Hearts, Fye Bridge Street, Norwich NR3 1LJ
http://tinyurl.com/mckcrg

Tickets £10 (£6 concessions)
Box Office 01603 611423
http://www.kingofhearts.org.uk/

A concert exploring music from two of the finest renaissance lutenist composers and by one of the finest contemporary players. This is a rare chance to hear Jacob Heringman in Norwich.

The concert is promoted as part of the 10th international lutemaking summer school where two renaissance lutes are being made for use in the Norfolk schools lute project. http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/summers.htm



2. LUTE SOCIETY SUMMER PARTY SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER

Members are warmly invited to the Lute Society summer party at 6.00 pm, Saturday 5th September 2009, at the home of John and Joyce Reeve with music from 6.30, performed by Bill Carter and Lynda Sayce. Food and drink kindly supplied by the hosts

RSVP!!!! Please contact: jreeve@dsl.pipex.com if you’d like to attend.

Places are usually limited to 50, so reply soon to avoid disappointment.



3. RADIO 4 PROGRAMME ON GESUALDO

Thought you might like to know about this. Also goes out Sat 8th Aug at 3.30pm. Or you can hear it after the Saturday repeat on www.bbc.co.uk/radio4, or you can catch it on the Listen Again function until next Monday.

Gesualdo – Musician and Murderer
Tuesday 4 August
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Aled Jones tells the curious story of composer Carlo Gesualdo – Third Prince of Venosa, Eighth Duke of Gesualdo – who was the primary suspect for the murder of his wife and her lover.
As the programme explores the strange values of four centuries ago, it is tempting to see a relationship between the double murder, for which he was famed throughout Italy, and his music. Yet as Gesualdo's biographer Glenn Watkins states, it was the custom in Italy for a man to uphold his family's honour.

A visit to Gesualdo's castle, currently being restored, takes listeners to the scene of his country retreat. But the biggest key to his state of mind is, perhaps, his music. Gerald Place and the fellow singers of the Gesualdo Consort demonstrate some of the music's beauty, and intrinsic peculiarity, as the composer sets up extraordinary difficulties of pitch and intonation. Singing about the torments of love, and about death, listeners perhaps see a parallel between his art and his life.

The merits of Gesualdo's writing have been hotly contested over the centuries, but he is now being appreciated as a composer of great skill – as well as one of a highly complex, yet fascinating character.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Geoff Ballinger

4. PETITION TO REFORM THE LICENSING ACT
Those who were members five or six years ago will remember our little part in campaigning against the current Licensing Act, which adds bureaucracy and cost to the business of putting on small live music concerts, or prevents them altogether. One could have foreseen that this matter would not lie, so thanks to Ray Black for passing on the following:


The LibDem Party have proposed a Live Music Bill, which will exempt venues with a capacity smaller than 200 from music licensing, exempt performances by two musicians or fewer and ban the Form 696.

The Bill has passed its first reading and will be debated later this year.

Please support this Bill by signing the No 10 Petition at:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/livemusicevents/

The petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop criminalizing live music with the Licensing Act, and to support amendments backed by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and the music industry, which would exempt most small-scale performances in schools, hospitals, restaurants and licensed premises. Under the Licensing Act, a performance by one musician in a bar, restaurant, school or hospital not licensed for live music could lead to a criminal prosecution of those organising the event. Even a piano may count as a licensable 'entertainment facility'. By contrast, amplified big screen broadcast entertainment is exempt. The government says the Act is necessary to control noise nuisance, crime, disorder and public safety, even though other laws already deal with those risks. Musicians warned the Act would harm small events. About 50% of bars and 75% of restaurants have no live music permission. Obtaining permission for the mildest live music remains costly and time-consuming. In May, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee recommended exemptions for venues up to 200 capacity and for unamplified performance by one or two musicians. The government said no. But those exemptions would restore some fairness in the regulation of live music and encourage grassroots venues.

Lute/Guitar News

The Dutch Lute Society has been able, after years of talking about it, to publish the famous Thysius Lute book , one of the few preserved Dutch Lute books, compiled at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is the world’s most comprehensive Lute book, with more then 500 pages of lute-music and about 900 pieces of all sorts, in French tablature. It varies from a broad international repertoire to Dutch song-tunes, from pieces that are easy to play to more complicated music.

The Dutch Lute Society is able to sell the book for € 98,- (excluding package and mailing costs), but only until the 1st of September! After that, due to the agreement with the co-editor, the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (KVNM), the price will be €140,-, with a reduction for members of 20%.The publication consist of three hard-backed volumes, held together by a box.Some examples of the music can be seen at the website of the Dutch Lute Society: http://www.nederlandseluitvereniging.nl/, at which you can also find how to order the book.
If you are interested, please contact publicaties@nederlandseluitvereniging.nl (Joost van Poppel) Best regards,Dutch Lute Society,Ciska Mertens,

2. CONCERT ON SUNDAY
I would like to announce about my concert on 7th July at Horniman museum.This is a part of the conferrence of Galpin society/Historic brass society,and I am going to play 17th-19th British guitar music (by Corbetta, Matteis, J.C.Bach, Straube .etc) on original guitars
with Judy Tarling (violin) and Jennifer Morsches(cello).

It will be rare chance to hear some pieces like J.C.Bach guittar sonata and Geminiani Art of the playing guittar.
The detail is onhttp://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/english.htm
The concert is free to public and around 40 seats are available.
Taro Takeuchi (tarolute@aol.com)

3. PURCELL AND MENDELSSOHN CHORAL CONCERT, LONDON, 16TH JULY

You are warmly invited to the Giltspur Singers’ Summer Concert, Hear My Prayer, which will feature the music of Purcell and Mendelssohn, who were born 350 and 200 years ago this year, respectively.
The concert will take place at 7.00pm on Thursday 16th July at the Temple Church.
The programme will included some well-known and some not-so-well-known choral pieces by both composers, including their settings of ‘Hear My Prayer’. It is a great privilege for us to perform Mendelssohn’s setting (with its famous solo ‘O for the wings of a dove’) in the Temple Church, where Ernest Lough’s renowned recordings were made. Other pieces will include Purcell’s dramatic Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes and his deeply moving Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our Hearts; and secular partsongs and sumptuous double-choir motets by Mendelssohn. In additional to the choral music, there will be a performance of a Purcell trio sonata on recorders and chamber organ, and Mendelssohn’s 3rd organ sonata.

News from the Lute Society

1. TALK ON FRENCH BAROQUE LUTE MUSIC

Dear all,

In case any of you may be in London this coming Monday, I am giving a paper on French baroque lute music at the Music and Morality conference hosted by the Institute of Musical Research and the Institute of Philosophy (University of London).

See below for details:

[1] http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/music-and-morality.html

This looks set to be a really interesting conference (Susan McClary, Jerrold Levinson, John Deathridge, Roger Scruton and many others will be there), and it even appears that parts of the conference may be broadcast on the BBC.

I have included the abstract below.

All best wishes,

Benjamin

BENJAMIN NARVEY: Honest Music: The Case of the Seventeenth-Century
French Lute
If morality can be understood to be a code of social conduct, then French lute music of the Grand Sicle presents us with an intriguing example of how music can function as a moral agent. In the wake of the civil war known as the Fronde (1648-53), the traditional French nobility amongst whom the lute counted as a favourite instrumentre-invented itself in a bid to preserve its challenged status through a code of social forms and manners they called honntet: literally honesty.

This term at once evokes morality, but as we shall see, it is also intricately linked to contemporary discourses of power, representation, rhetoric, and artistic taste (bon got). In fact, many of the musical forms found in French lute music, and many of the luthistes playing techniques and compositional strategies, are directly linked to this moral code of honest courtly conductto the point that much of the lute repertoire proves uncommonly dependent on honesty for its coherence as an art form. Where from the view of modern common practice
tonality this repertoire often appears to lack the very components thaT render musical discourse intelligible (its harmonies often seem aimless, there is not always a continuous or defi nable melody, and rhythms can be displaced well beyond the bounds of normative hypermetricity), a reading of this repertoire through the lens of honntet shows how French lute music functioned as a classic moral performance, since it reproduced contemporary social conduct through artistic experience. Thus, the case of the French lute serves to highlight the interdependence between contemporary ethics and aesthetics, and thereby provides a useful example of how music can be linked to moral sensibilities.

-- Dr Benjamin A. Narvey Post-doctorant/Post-Doctoral Fellow Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) IVe Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques t +33 (0) 1 44 27 03 44 p/m +33 (0) 6 71 79 98 98 Site web/Website: [2]www.luthiste.com

--References
1. http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/music-and-morality.html

2. http://www.luthiste.com/

2. CLAVICHORD CONCERT
Friday 26 June

1.05pm Concert Room, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK.

Telephone +44 (0)20 7873 7373 Free, no tickets required

Clavichord Recital

Menno Van Delft -Clavichord

• JS Bach Fantasie in C minor, BWV906WF Bach Fugue no.2 in C minor, from Acht Fugen, Falck 31


• Ernst Wilhelm Wolf Sonata in B flat WF Bach Fantasie in D minor, Falck 18


• WF Bach Fugue no.4 in D minor from Acht Fugen, Falck 31


• Mozart Ten Variations in G on the Arietta ‘Unser Dummer Pöbel meint from the Singspiel ‘Die Pilgrime von Mekka’ by Christoph Willibald Gluck, K.455

Dutch harpsichordist and clavichordist Menno Van Delft makes his first visit to the Academy.

Menno, whose performances on that most demanding of all early keyboard instruments have become internationally renowned, will give a lunchtime solo recital on the Academy’s fine Bavington/Hoffmann clavichord. All audience members are invited to stay for the afternoon masterclass.

Both events have been generously supported by the British Clavichord Society.
Followed by Clavichord Master Class, 2.30–5.30pm, Concert Room

News from the Lute Society

1. LUTE AND BAROQUE MUSIC AT ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE, MONDAY 18TH MAY
The well known Hungarian lutenist, Istvan Konya, will be performing for one night only on Monday 18th May at St John's Smith Square at 7.30 pm with colleaques from the Budapest Chamber Opera. tickets £15 and £20 from 020 7222 1061

Thank you

Anne Simor
2. CONCERT ON 28TH MAY

Jakob Lindberg is giving a recital on his Sixtus Rauwolf Lute made in around 1590 – the same years as the Spanish Armarda on Thursday May 28th, at 7.30

Program includes Weiss, Bach, Kellner, Reusner, and music from the Balcarres book. £10 a ticket to include a glass of wine and nibbles Tickets from 07962 430450

Any problems with tickets get in touch with Nick Gravestock, blutiles@leicester.anglican.org

3. CONCERT, SATURDAY 13th JUNE
Dear Frolick Friends and Fans,

We will be playing The Frolick with Calliope in South West London at the All Saints Concert series, on Saturday 13 June at 7.30pm. An evening of 18th-century popular song from Handel's London, including music by Handel, Geminiani, Lampe, Carey, O'Carolan, Ramsay, Holcombe and Corelli, with traditional scots and irish music thrown in, just as it would have been in an informal evening of music-making at home in the 1740s. It should be a lively evening with strawberries, Pimms and a licensed bar! Full details below.

We very much hope to see you there.

all the best

Emma and Andrew

P.S. If you haven't already checked out the new website, please do at http://www.thefrolick.com/. We have a new picture gallery with photos from our live shows and a Video gallery including our new promo video (EPK) and individual songs from The Frolick with Calliope. www.thefrolick.com/Gallery.html and www.thefrolick.com/Video.html

4. SUMMER SCHOOL IN PARIS. JULY 13-20
Dear all, I am writing to let you know about a Lute summer course in Paris (July 13-20) that I'll be teaching together with the lutenist Miguel Serdoura. Miguel Serdoura (http://www.miguelserdoura.com/) will teach the solo lessons and I'll teach Continuo and Chamber Music. Both solo and Continuo lesson will be 8 hours a day. The Continuo and Chamber Music lesson I'll teach will be organized like this: Continuo: Theory and Practise (2 hours/day)Duets and Trios (2 hours/day)Lute Songs (2 hours/day)Chamber Music with other instruments (violin, recorder, Cello, voice, etc...) (2 hours/day) The registration for the course is already in progress. For more information about the course you can visit http://www.musique-colombes.net/ where you can download the aplication brochure. You can also contact me for any other information you may need. Looking forward to seeing you in Paris.

Best wishes Manuel Minguillon Nieto

http://www.manuelminguillon.cominfo@manuelminguillon.cominfo@manuelminguillon.com

5. CONCERT, LONDON 5th JUNE

A Many Coloured Coat Songs of love and devotion centring on the idea of Jerusalem as a cultural and religious crossroads

Anthony Rooley (lute) Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Friday 5 June 2009 at 6pm

The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1

A John Coffin Memorial Fund Recital in association with the Warburg Institute Free of charge, but booking essential. Please email music@sas.ac.uk to reserve a place.

The Lute SocietyA Many Coloured CoatA Tale of how the Cloth was CutIn January 1999 Evelyn Tubb and Anthony Rooley were to make their annual visit to Jerusalem – a combined programme of teaching and concert-giving. The reader may recall that this precise time was a low point in Jewish/Arab relations, with the confrontation having descended to pantomimic levels of vulgar posturing and base politics. Fundamentalism on both sides claimed the higher moral ground and deceit was rife.

Nothing new, of course, for the city of Jerusalem – the Holy City for three fractious religions – which has known very few years of real peace over its three millenia of existence. A symbol of Heaven on Earth? Black humour indeed!

So what are two visiting itinerant musicians, specialists in renaissance and baroque music, going to do or say anything more than bringing pretty, effete music to act as a salve for the more liberated and enlightened members of that angst-ridden community?

Yes, these dear friends of ours love their music, and particularly seem to love our individual brand, which is quite enough reason to return to perform. But with such horrendous deeds being perpetrated daily, we really wanted to say something through our medium that made a more apposite comment, somehow to show that Art may have relevance even in the midst of strife (as many members of this particular community know only too well!).

We knew that extremists would not be present – we only play to liberals – the others are too busy with matters of consequence – so we didn’t expect mass conversions to a movement that thought Art held all the answers. But we did feel that Jerusalem as an emblem of love and devotion was not too far-fetched an idea to form the central theme of our programme. These fractious elements have so much more in common: a deep love of poetry, divine and passionate, and a deep love of the music from the several traditions which set that poetry. There is, too, an almost erotic quality to much of the material – a kind of weaving of the sensual and spiritual which really belongs to the Middle East, and which we in colder northern climes can only dream about.

To the Jewish, Islamic and Christian religions we added a fourth, not exactly a religion, and passing under many names at different times and places in western culture – the neo-Platonic, or ‘mystery’ religion (close to sufism in some respects, or to kabbalah, and yet again, catharism, hermeticism) – a form of exotic ethical beliefs which have often been condemned by orthodoxy of every hue. Suppression of the ‘mystical’ has been a tendency throughout the last 2000 years, but art, poetry and music have continually acted as a channel for inspired outpourings, much to the annoyance of the power-houses of constrained orthodoxy. Jerusalem emanates mystery as though on an important earth ley-line, as is claimed by some.

All of the poetry and music in this programme was created further west and north – it is a European view of the four religions, by artists inspired by the exotic contemplation of the Middle East. Some of it is from Spain, a place where for a short while, under Alfonso the Wise, all four religions co-habited peacefully and inspired each other, some from Germany and the dour Rhine, and some from damp, melancholy England. Italy comes a little closer to the source of inspiration, and to the warmth of mediterranean dreamings. Much of the poetry is drawn form the Old Testament, a cobbled collection of texts which has mutually inspired each of the factions and which each claim to be holy. There is so much they have in common, surely there is the wisdom to see unity rather than disparity? Jacob and his famous coat provides an appropriate symbol, a veritable mantle, for uniting this diversity. The music ranges widely, not only in place but also in time. Hildegard from the 12th century rubs shoulders with Henry Purcell from the late 17th. My normal tendency in programme planning is to take a very specific brief period of time and ‘go in deep’, but this theme seemed to want a different solution. The end result is as you see, or rather, hear. I was anxious about a possible time-travel sickness ensuing, but quite the contrary, I find the ear enjoying unusual juxtapositions and drawing fresh insight from that. The universality of devotional love poetry weaves the weft of this many coloured coat in an intriguing way.

Lute Society Update

1. CONCERT AT ST GEORGES BLOOMSBURY [between Holborn and Tottenham Court Road tubes]

Sunday 26th April 4pm Setts of fantasias & sonatas by Purcell and his contemporary Matthew Locke Chelys EnembleAdmission: Free, retiring collection

2. DORSET GUITAR SOCIETY
Dear Guitar EnthusiastsTime for DGS April Newsletter.http://www.dorsetguitarsociety.org.uk/Newsletters

3 MUSIC AND GRAPHIC ARTS EVENT

You are most welcome to attend this international event on interpreting the relationship between music and the graphic arts.

Reframing Musical Artworks: the Future for Music Iconology STUDY DAY
Saturday 25 April 2009, Stewart House (32 Russell Square), Room ST 274/5

10:00 Arrival and registration

10:30 Welcome and Introduction

10:40 Richard Leppert:
Music, Visual Culture & Political Economies of Order, Disorder
& Violence

11:45 Simon Shaw-Miller
Music as Musical Icongraphy

2:00 Debra Pring
‘A short and vanishing illusion: The Negotiation of Meaning in
Edwaert Collier’s ‘Still Life with a Copy of Wither’s Emblemes’

3:05 Florence Gétreau
Spirit and body: creative inspiration and its visual expression in
composers’ and instrument makers’ portraits

4:20 Antonio Baldassare
Do we need a turn? The history and art of viewing music
iconographic images

5:20 – 6p.m. Round-table (all participants) and Conclusions


Advance booking advised. £10 waged (concessions free).
Email music@sas.ac.uk to register. Full booking details at http://www.music.sas.ac.uk/
Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Tel: 020 7664 4865


________________________
Prof. Katharine Ellis
Director, Institute of Musical Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel/Voicemail: 020 7664 4866
http://www.music.sas.ac.uk/
Offices now at Stewart House (32 Russell Square), 2nd floor, Room 277


4. BRITTEN’S NOCTURNAL ON LUTE
Those who were there remember a performance of Britten's Nocturnal After Dowland at one of our Lute Society summer weekends. In the bar afterwards someone described the performance as demonstration that the guitar could be played perfectly without nails. I suggested it had proved the opposite and a lively debate ensued. When looking through a catalogue of CDs on the Alpha label I was reminded of this conversation when I discovered a CD of the Nocturnal played on lute. Although this wouldn't be for me others may be interested. Forgive me rattling on if you already know this recording but just in case not the details are below this Email.All the best, Ray Black

CD TITLE: Britten and Bach. Come Heavy Sleep

ARTIST: Edin Karamazov

WORKS INCLUDED: Britten's Nocturnal and Bach's Partita II. BWV 1004LABEL DETAILS: Alpha 056. 3 760014 190568

News from the Lute Society

1. FURTHER REVISION TO TIMETABLE FOR LUTE SOCIETY MEETING ON APRIL 18TH
Chris Egerton's talk will be followed immediately at 12 by Luke Emmet and Kevin Drake playing duets, and then there will be an extended break from 12.30 to 2.15 beginning with Chris Egerton leading a guiding walk to Gallery 41 of the British Museum, to see the newly restored Warwick cithole.
Brian Jordan can't come this time, but bring your chequebook anyway - the new book of 70 Easy Pieces, and a full range of French Lute Society editions specially brought from Paris will be on sale.
10.30 Coffee

11.00 The world's earliest guitar? The Warwick cithole, a 14th century instrument recently restored in the British Musuem, a talk by Chris Egerton

12.00 Mini-recital, of lute duets played by Luke Emmet and Kevin Drake
12.30 Extended break, beginning with a guided walk to see the Warwick cithole in gallery 41 of the British Museum.

2.15 Annual General Meeting; agenda and minutes as circulated with December Lute News

3.15 Mini-recital, of baroque guitar music by Bartolotti, played by Gordon Ferries 3.45 Tea

4.15 The Lute Society recital, Jakob Lindberg plays 13 course baroque lute, music by Kellner, Bach, Reusner, and Scottish tunes.

2. MICHAEL LOWE ON RADIO 3
Lute Society member and lutemaker extraordinaire Michael Lowe will be doing a round-up of the latest lute releases on CD Review this Saturday 11th April from 10am on BBC Radio 3 - 90-93 FM, on digital and at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3. Do tune in!


3. CORRECTION TO HAMPTON COURT EVENT NOTICE
I'm writing because Liz Kenny has advised me of an error in some publicity that was distributed to the Lute Society and promulgated in its newsletter.Liz, along with the countertenor Robin Blaze, is giving a concert at Hampton Court Palace in early May: not however on the 8th as first advertised, but rather on Saturday 9th. On the 8th there will be a concert of Tudor vocal music by The Brabant Ensemble under my direction, which I hope might also be of interest to some Lute Society members. Correct information about the series of which these concerts are a part is now available at http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/WhatsOn/TudorMusicFestival.aspx.

The concert organizers and I would be most grateful if you could kindly passon this correction to as many members as possible.

Best wishes,Stephen Rice
stephen.rice@ntlworld.com

Dr S J RiceAHRC

Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts

University of Southampton

4. CONCERT IN HAMPSTEAD
Passacalles, Chaconnes and Follias
Yair Avidor will be playing a Spanish and French solo programme for baroque guitar and theorbo with music by Gaspar Sanz, Santiago de Murcia, Francesco Corbetta and Robert de Visee.
Sunday 12 Aprl 2 pm at Burgh House Museum, Hampstead
New End Square 3 minutes from Hampstead Tube Station http://www.burghhouse.org.uk/
£10/ £8 on the door or from 0208 340 2230

5. NEWS FROM THE FROLICK
Dear Friends and Frolick Fans,
It's finally Springtime! And the new The Frolick website, is here.
http://www.thefrolick.com/
With fabulous new picture Gallery and a Video gallery with our new promo video (EPK) and individual songs from The Frolick with Calliope. Those of you who have not yet been able to see us live can finally take a peek, and see photos from our live shows.
www.thefrolick.com/Gallery.html and www.thefrolick.com/Video.html
We have gained two fabulous new band members: Catherine Martin, the excellent violinist and concert master of the Gabrieli Consort, and the world renowned harper Frances Kelly. Biographies of all our members can be found at www.thefrolick.com/AboutUs.html.
We hope that you enjoy your trip around the The Frolick's Official Website and look forward to seeing you soon.
all the best
Emma, Andrew & The Frolick
Emma Curtis & Andrew Maginley
Directors
The Frolick
+44 7768 878764 (Emma)
+44 7726 772900 (Andrew)
info@thefrolick.com
http://www.thefrolick.com/

6. IFORD FESTIVAL
Every summer the Iford Festival takes place in the exquisite Peto Garden of Iford Manor in Wiltshire. As an early music enthusiast, we though you would be interested to hear about the following events in the 2009 Festival Season.
Early Opera Company Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea July 10,11,14,15,17, and 18
The Garden of Earthly DelightsA 'pleasure garden' promenade-style evening featuringThe Daughters of ElvinSoloists from the Early Opera CompanyJuly 12
For full details, booking information, and to join the mailing list, please visit our website at http://www.ifordarts.co.uk/, or telephone Iford Arts on 01225 868124.

7. BELSIZE BAROQUE CONCERT
Belsize Baroque is delighted to invite you to a concert on 17th May at St James’church, West Hampstead, at 7pm. It will be directed from the violin by dynamic young director Jane Gordon, and feature the music of JS Bach, JB Bach, Muffat, and Avison. Details attached and also on our website http://www.belsizebaroque.org.uk/

8. LUTE SONGS AT FINCHCOCKS
Soprano Alessandra Testai and lutenist Robin Jeffrey are giving a series of mini-recitals of songs and cantatas with a Spring theme, through Easter Sunday and Monday at Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent .
For details see http://www.finchcocks.co.uk/
Alessandra Testai and Robin Jeffrey are also giving a series of short recitals for Sonnet Sunday at Shakespeare's Globe on April 19th, Shakespeare's birthday.
See http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ for details.

Lute Society Update

They are busy little customers at the Lute Society!! Goes to show that 'you can't tie a good lutenist down unless you nick his strings', (as John Dowland was once heard to remark ..)

Check out the dates below!

1. Don't miss the very last biennial Lute Society Lute Exhibition, Hackney, London, this weekend April 4th–5th

If you have ever told yourself that you ought to get to London to go along to our biennial lute exhibition in Hackney, east London, but never quite get round to it, then you really should not miss the forthcoming exhibition, as it will be the last to be held there. Our host, Gordon Gregory, feels that it is time for a change, perhaps for such events to be held elsewhere, we know not where. This last exhibition will be held at Gordon Gregory’s house, 18 Meynell Crescent, Hackney, London E9 7AS, on Saturday April 4th from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm, and Sunday April 5th from 11.00 to 4.00 pm. Contact: gordon@gordongregory.co.uk and see the exhibition webpage: www.lutesoc.co.uk/exhibition.htm

2. Lute Society meeting, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London Saturday April 18th

If you happen to be in London, come along! Nigel North is giving the main recital, and we will have a full range of French Lute Society music on sale, plus our own new book of 70 Easy Pieces.

The timetable for the day will be:

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Dowland, his music and musical style, a talk by Nigel North

12.00 Demonstration of lutes from the biennial lute exhibition, played by Anna Langley
12.30 Mini-recital, of lute duets played by Luke Emmet and Kevin Drake
1.00 Break for lunch

2.15 Annual General Meeting; agenda and minutes as circulated with December Lute News3.15 Mini-recital, of baroque guitar music by Bartolotti, played by Gordon Ferries

3.45 Tea

4.15 The Lute Society recital, Nigel North plays music by John Dowland



COURSES WITH DEDICATED LUTE TUTOR OR EXTENSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LUTE PLAYING

Apr 13-19 Musica antica a Monterone/Sestone, Arezzo, with Sigrun Richter. Details: http://www.sigrunrechter.de/, tel: ++39 0575 772219

Apr 2–9 Easter Early Music Course St George’s School, Ascot, details: Geri Coop, 07950 054740, e: info@easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk

Apr 14-17 Renaissance Music at Easter, recorders only this year, apparently Wedgwood Memorial College, Station Road, Barlaston, Stoke on Trent, Contact: 01782 372105 e: Wedgewood.memorial@swann.stoke.gov.uk web: http://www.stoke.gov.uk/

Apr 14-17 Baroque Orchestra Course, with Judy Tarling, Benslow Music Trust, Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills off Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RB. Tel: 01462 459446 (fax: 440171). Email: info@benslow.org

Apr 17–19 Motet to Oratorio, motets of the 16th century, with Philip Thorby, early music workshop, Copenhagen, e: ric@mail.dk http://www.ricc.dk/

Apr 25–May 2 Lute, song and guitar course, Gerano, Italy with Evelyn Juten, http://www.evelinejuten.nl/; http://www.keesarntzen.nl/

May 8–10 Lautenakademie, Bremen with Ariel Abramovich, Michael Freimuth, Paul O’Dette, Lee Santana, Hochschule fur Kunste Dechanatstr 13–15, D 23195 Bremen tel: ++49 421 9595 1506 / 07 e: a.heibuelt@hfk-bremen.de http://www.hfk-bremen.de/

May 8–10 Barocco Europeo course at Sacile (PN) with Paolo Cherici, Claudine Ansermet tel: ++39 0434 734810 http://www.barocco-europeo.org/ e: info@barocco-europeo.org

May 16-17 Madrigal weekend with Glenda Simpson, for voices, viols, recorders, lutes, early music workshop, Copenhagen,
e: ric@mail.dk http://www.ricc.dk/

May 22–24 Badenweiler Lautenkurs, with C Zimmermann, Matthias Wagner, tel: ++49 7632 828695
www.lutes-strings.de/workshop_Zimmermann-2009.php

June 4–17 Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Music Institute, with Lucas Harris, lute continuo class, University of Toronto, Canada, tel. ++1 416 964 9562, ext: 401 e: tbsi@tafelmusik.org web: http://www.tafelmusik.org/

Jun 10–14 Kloster Schlehdorf, Kurs Alte Musik, with Axel Wolf, Marion Teupel-Franck, tel: ++49 89/ 6012755 e: schlehdorf@flautotraverso.de http://www.flautotraverso.de/

Jun 14–20 Baroque Music Workshop Music in the Italian Cities in the 17th and 18th centuries, incl. baroque orchestra,
Sonoma State University, CA, contact: San Francisco Early Music Society, PO Box 1015, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA,
tel: ++1 510 528 9808 email: sfems@sfems.org web: http://www.sfems.org/

Jun 25–Jul 5 Oberlin baroque performance institute, Music in London 1659–1759. with Lucas Harris. Contact: Baroque Performance Institute, Conservatory of Music, 39 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 1576, USA, tel: Anna Hoffmann ++1 440 775 8044/fax: 8942 e: Anna.Hoffmann@oberlin.edu web: www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/bpi

Jun 28–Jul 4 Mediaeval and Renaissance Workshop Stories and Legends with Tim Rayborn, Sonoma State University, CA, contact: San Francisco Early Music Society, PO Box 1015, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA, tel: ++1 510 528 9808 email: sfems@sfems.org web: http://www.sfems.org/

July 5–12 International Summer School of Early Music, Valtice, Czech Republic. with Brian Wright, Contact: The Czech Music Society, Radlicka 99, CZ 15000 Praha 5, Czech Republic. Tel/ fax: ++420 2 35 351942 /fax: 2 515 52453 e: valtice.veronika@centrum.cz http://www.early-music.cz/

July 6–12 Seminaire Estival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie, with Vincent Dumestre. Contact: 4 Dreve Flovana, 5020 Flawinne, Belgium tel/fax: ++32/0 87 77 48 82 e: contact@metamusique.com web: http://www.semusanc.be/

July 12–19 Early Music Summer School at Prachatice no lute teacher this year, Czech Republic. Contact: Jan Kvapil, Bachrova 15, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic tel:++420 604 280 490 fax: ++420 2 585 757 109 e: kvapil@mybox.cz web: www.mybox.cz/kvapil

July 17–26 XI Early music Summer Course in Gijón [Spain] with, Eduardo Eguez, contact: Central de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Jovellanos 21, E 33201 Gijon, Asturias, Spain. Tel: ++0034 985 18 10 55 / fax: 17 97 64 e: tallerdemusicos.fmc@gijon.es
web: http://www.musicaantiguagijon.com/

July 18–27 International Early Music course, Urbino, with Paul O’Dette et al, contact: Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica, Via Col di Lana 7, C.P. 6159, 00195 Roma, Italy Tel/fax: ++39 063210806 e: fima.rm@agora.it http://www.fima-online.org/

July 19–25 Beauchamp House Early Music Week, Music from Eastern Music, incl. continuo course, Beauchamp House Music Courses, c/o Gloucester Academy of Music, 11a Westgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2NW tel: 01452 522170 e: holidaycourses@gamusic.co.uk

July 19–26 Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College, New London, CT, with Doug Freundlich, Grant Herreid, Ronn McFarlane, Contact: Amherst Early Music Inc. 47 Prentiss St, Watertown MA 02472, tel: ++1 617 744 1324 / fax: 1327
e: info@amherstearlymusic.org web: http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/

July 20–24 Early Music for Youth Summer School, with Katalin Ertsey, Warwick School, contact Alison Kinder tel: 0794 9511619 e: alison.kinder1@btinternet.com http://www.earlymusicforyouth.co.uk/

July 24–Aug 2 Baroque institute at Longy School of Music, The Venice Dresden Connection, with Lucas Harris, contact Longy School of Music, One Follen St. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, tel: ++1 617 876 0956 e: karen.burciaga@longy.edu web: http://www.longy.edu/

July 25–31 XXXII Ringve Museum International Summer School Inderoy, Norway. tutors include Thomas Boysen; contact: St Olav Festival in Trondheim, Dronningens gt. 1B, N-7410 Trondheim, tel/fax: ++47 404 04 584 http://www.ringvecourse.no/ e: toreaune@online.no

July 25–Aug 1 Dartington International Summer School, week 1, Music of Louis XIV, and Lute class with David Miller. Contact: DISS, The Barn, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6DE tel: ++44/(0)1803 847080 (/fax: 847087). email: info@dartingtonsummerschool.org.uk http://www.dartingtonsummerschool.org.uk/

July 26–31 Vancouver Early Music Programme, lute workshop, R Barto, J Heringman, P O’Brien, N. North, Contact: Jose Verstappen, Vancouver Early Music Program and Festival, 1254 W 7th Ave, Vancouver BC V6H 1B6, Canada, tel: ++1 604 732 1601 / fax: 1602 e: workshops@earlymusic.bc.ca, http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/ The Baroque vocal programme with Ray Nurse and Ellen Hargis runs through to Aug 7.

July 26–Aug 1 Stage de musique baroque, with Leonardo Loredo, Centre les Coulmes, Col de Romeyere, F 38680 Rencurel, France, tel: ++33/0 4 75 76 42 82 e: clemence.comte@wanadoo.fr web: http://www.lars.fr/

July 26-Aug 2 Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools: week 1, Handel in England baroque music with the Parley of Instruments, Contact: Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ tel: 01223 847330 e: info@CambridgeEarlyMusic.org website: http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/

Jul 25–31 North West Early Music Forum School, with Martin Eastwell, Ambleside, contact: Roger Wilkes, Director NWEMF Summer School, 28 Carlisle Close, Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 7HO, tel: 01565 872650, email: president@nwemf.org.uk http://www.nwemf.org.wk/

Aug 1–8 Dartington International Summer School, week 2, Bach Xmas oratorio with baroque orchestra; lute and lute song with Michael Fields, contact: as week 1

Aug 1-8 Northumbrian Recorder and Viol School XXXIX (NORVIS), incl. Dido & Aeneas, College of St Hild & St Bede, Durham, with Martin Eastwell, Stewart McCoy, Contact: 01652 678230 e: enquiries@norvis.org.uk http://www.norvis.org.uk/

Aug 2–8 Dolmetsch summer school, at Llandovery college, opportunities for ensemble playing?, contact: Dolmetsch Foundation, Heartsease, Grayswood Rd Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 2BS, tel: ++44/0 1428 643235 e: brian@dolmetsch.com web: http://www.dolmetsch.com/

Aug 2–9 Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools: week 2 renaissance music, Renaissance Music for Voices and Instruments, Contact: Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ tel: 01223 847330 e: e: info@CambridgeEarlyMusic.org website: http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/

Aug 2–9 Internationales Seminar fur Alte Musik , Music 1730-1800, with Hubert Hofffmann, Schloss Zrel an der Pram, Oberosterreich, Austria, contact:Christa Pesendorfer, Hauptstr. 61b/8, A 3001, Mauerbach bei Wien, Austria, tel/fax: ++43 1 979 5898 e: alte-musik@music.at http://www.alte-musik.music.at/

Aug 2-9 32nd Baroque Week, Oxford, baroque chamber playing. Contact: Peter Collier, 13 Brackley Road, Monton, Eccles,
Manchester M30 9LG, tel: 0161 281 2502. e: p.b.collier@googlemail.com web: www.newn.cam.ac.uk/prlw/BaroqueWeek/

Aug 3–8 Sommerakademie fur alte Musik, with Jakob Lindberg, Neuburg an der Donau, Contact: Sommerakademie Neuburg, Amt fur Kultur & Touristik, Residenzstr. A 66, D 86633 Neuburg am Donau, tel: ++ 49 8431 55 234
e: kultur@neuburg-donau.de, http://www.sommerakademie-neuburg.de/

Aug 5–13 V Savaria early music summer course with Istvan Konya, RZM Szombathely PF 397, Hungary, H-9700 tel: +3630 3110435 e: info.rzm@gmail.com, web: http://www.rzm.hu/

Aug 6–16 La Pellegrina summer school, Monteverdi and Czech contemporaries Bechyne, Czech republic, Contact: La Pellegrina, Dirkjan Horringa, Merwedeplansoen 73, 3522 JZ Utrecht, Netherlands, tel: ++31 30 2382535 e: info@pellegrina.net web: http://www.pellegrina.net/

Aug 8-16 Lute building summer school, with David van Edwards, Norwich, to work together and build two 7-course lutes to donate to the Lute Society for schools project, contact David van Ewards, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich NR1 4HB, tel: 01603 629899 e: david@vanedwards.co.uk www.vanedwards.co.uk/summers.htm

Aug 11-16 11th Chalemie Summer School of Early Music, Dance and Commedia, Oxford, with Matthew Spring et al. Contact: Barbara Segal, tel: 020 7700 4293 / f: 7700 5877, or Chalemie Summer School, 3 Thornhill Square, Islington, London N1 1BQ, e: chalemie@thorn.demon.co.uk web: http://www.chalemie.co.uk/

Aug 11–20 Stage ‘Cordes et vents en Ardeche’ Purcell King Arthur, tel: ++33/0 4 75 39 69 91 e: c.escure@gmail.com http://www.lacompagnieduglobe.com/

Aug 13–23 Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, Academia d’Amore with Stephen Stubbs, continuo, Elizabeth Brown, lute, Contact: Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, 1525 NE Elshin Pl, Seattle WA 98125 tel/fax: ++1 206 913 2073 e: info@seattleacademyofbaroqueopera.org http://www.seattleacademyof/ baroqueopera.org

Aug 15–22 Early Music Week at Pinewoods, nr Plymouth MA, Contact: The Country Dance and Song Society, PO Box 338, Haydenville, MA 01039-0338 USA, tel: ++1 413 268 7426 ext 3 /fax: 268 7471, e: camp@cdss.org web: http://www.cdss.org/

Aug 23–30 7e Atelier de musique ancienne, [making an organistrum rather than a lute this year], plus lectures and courses, Gruyeres, Fribourg, Switzerland. Contact: Association Guitare et Luth, Case Postale 2254, 1630 Bulle 2, Switzerland.tel: ++41 79 400 6462 e: atelier.lutherie@bluemail.ch
Web: www.anselmus.ch/fr/association/atelier2007.htm

Oct 16–21 Sing from the heart at West Dean, with Michael Fields and Evelyn TubbWest Dean College, West Dean, Chichester PO18 0QZ tel 0844 4994408 or from overseas ++44 1243 811301 / fax: 811343 e: short.courses@westdean.org.uk web: http://www.westdean.org.uk/

Oct 17–18 Mulheim/Baden Spielertreffen, with Carsten Timpe, Haydnweg 21, D 79395, Neuenburg; e: inehac1@gmx.de

Nov 26–29 Lute course at Castle Alteglofsheim with Stefan Lundgren, Stewart McCoy and Miguel Serdoura, Contact:
S Lundgran, O Alvarsdalsvagen 32, SE 38792 Borgholm, tel: ++46 485/563207 e: ekebo07@glocalnet.net http://www.luteonline.se/
e: SLundgrenLaute@t-online.de, web: http://www.luteonline.de/ or www.musikakademie-alteglofsheim.de/