Ed Martin Returns Oct. 13th through 15th
Franklin Seminar on Saturday, June 24th, 1:30pm
Current Berkeley Festival Lute Schedule
More Collegium news for May 24th
Franklin Lei Performance 3 Pm Tuesday, June 6th
Photos From the Berkeley Early Music Festival
June 2000
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Janine Johnson, harpsichord, performs a solo recital of Baroque and contemporary suites. If you love counterpoint, dance, and passionate harpsichord writing, you will enjoy this! J.S. Bach English Suite in a minor J. Johnson Suite for Tamara in f# minor Louis Couperin Pieces in C major J. Johnson Suite in F major //////// Saturday, February 3, 8:00 P.M. Trinity Chapel, Berkeley: 2320 Dana Street (between Bancroft and Durant) $10/$8 suggested donation (though no one is turned away for lack of funds) there is FREE PARKING in the lot for Trinity United Methodist church. Do not pay at the kiosk, but instead write your license plate number on the roster at the door when attending the concert. The driveway for the lot is on the north side of Durant just prior to the church. For more information please call (510) 549-3864 //////// As you can see, I'm presenting two of my own compositions. I've had much positive feedback from past performances of my own music and imagine people will be attracted to these pieces as well. I write idiomatically for the instrument, often leaning Baroque, but with more modern harmonies and rhythms. The new suites go well with the old; two incredible pieces of delicious harpsichord writing from the 17th and 18th centuries. We are now in the 21st century, yet these pieces are as fresh and alive as when they were first written! I hope you can come! Janine (P.S. I have performed on the SFEMS concert series with Duo Concertante in a program of 18th century fortepiano duos. I have also performed with Elizabeth Blumenstock at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (a yearly event) in Richmond and at MusicSources of Berkeley. I play both harpsichord and fortepiano, writing for both, and performing statewide.)
janartmuse@mac.comComing to the Bay area Ed Martin:
Just wanted you to know that we are planning a return visit to the SF Bay Area from Ed Martin this Fall, scheduled for the weekend of October 13-15 Click here for details…
Gleaned from the Berkeley Early Music Festival
Please call Frances Feldon at 510.527.9029 to register or for
more info or email her at franfel@aol.com.
Dear Lutenists,
I have taken a pencil in hand, and roughed out a lute-schedule for the Berkeley Music Festival, that we can fill in.
Berkeley (Early) Music Festival is coming June 4-11, 2000,
Jacob Heringman
Arrive 2nd and departure will be on the 9th.
Monday, June 5Monday, Hertz Hall, 8pm, Paul O'Dette, The Kings Noyse, Tragicomedia
(featuring Stephen Stubbs, a master at playing continuo on the long-neck
lute, the theorbo), playing "The Musical Secrets of Giovanni
Kapsberger"- excellent! $26.00
Tuesday June 6
Jacob Heringman lute concert
Berkeley Early Music Festival (Fringe)
Tuesday, June 6, 12:30 pm
Loper Chapel, First Congregational Church,
Dana & Durant Sts.
Berkeley, CaliforniaTuesday -3:30 pm St Marks,2300 Bancroft Way.
Price (none given) -
Second City Music
-including Jacob Heringman, three good viols and an excellent voice (Ellen Hargis)
(conflicts with franklin lei's concert)
Franklin Lei concert
Berkeley Early Music Festival (Fringe)
Tuesday, June 6, 3:00 pm
Loper Chapel, First Congregational Church,
Dana & Durant Sts.
Berkeley, California
> Program: J.S. Bach, Lute suite in g minor, BWV 995
> S.L. Weiss, Sounata in c minor, Dresden No. 33
> Information: michael.peterson@kp.org
Steve Stubbs is giving a master class on continuo with Alex Weiman on
harpsichord on the Tuesday of the Festival (June 6) in Room 128 at 2 PM.
All of Tragicomedia will be in town next weekend and staying at the
Durant, for their Kapsburger concert Monday night.
Wednesday June 7
Cal Performances and the Northern California Chapter
of the LSA is sponsoring a Master Class with Paul O'Dette to be held
Wednesday, June 7, 10 am until 12 pm at Morrison Hall (Music Building)
during that week. There will be 4 openings for advanced or intermediate
lutenists to play for Paul in a public setting. Cost is $40.00 for the
participants, and $5.00 for auditors.
Please contact Mike Peterson at michael.peterson@kp.org, or phone
510-784-4412 for more information or to sign up. Please join us if you can!
Fernando.Vazquez (raven79@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Mike Clasen
Andrew Hartig
Sean Smith
Wednesday afternoon (yet to be negotiated with the music department)
AT LAST MORE DETAILS:
Following Paul's class, Master Renaissance Lute Master Class with Jacob
Heringman, sponsored by the Northern California Chapter of the Lute
Society of America (hopefully soon to be an affiliate of SFEMS),
Wednesday, June 7, 2pm until 4 pm at Morrison Hall (Music Building)
There will be 4 openings for advanced or intermediate lutenists to play
for Jacob in a public setting. The music department has scheduled the
lute master class in room 135. Cost is $40.00 for the participants, and
$5.00 for auditors.Please contact Sean Smith, email dowland@ix.netcom.com for more
information or to sign up.
Thursday June 8Thursday 11am Music sources
"La Monica" $10/$5 including (soprano and baroque strings +
Bruce Burchmore lute, theorbo, baroque guitar - works by
Bach, Brahms, Couperin, Handel, Merula, Purcell and VivaldiThursday, Hertz Hall, 5pm,
Paul O'Dette,
Viheula and baroque guitar,
"Jacaras." $22.000Thursday 8pm St Marks
"Pleasures and Follies of Love" -
Stephanie Pan, voice, with Alex Jenne lute/theorbo -
english, french & italian lute songs of 16th and 17th centuries by Caccini, Dowland, johnson, and Lassus $10/$8Thursday, Hertz Hall, 10:30pm,
The Kings Noyse, Paul O'Dette, and Ellen
Hargis, soprano (wonderful!!) "Voix de Ville: Parisian Streets and
Theaters" $22.00
Musical Instrument Exhibition
The exhibition starts on June 8.
The Northern Calif Chapter of the LSA (that is us) is responsible for
manning the booth Thursday through Saturday.
Sadly, Dan Larsen, lutemaker, just told me that he cannot get away from
activities in Duluth, and has bowed out of the Musical Instrument Exhibition!
Friday June 9Friday, Hertz Hall, 10:30pm,
Tragicomedia (Stephen Stubbs and his
back-up band) with Suzie LaBlanc, soprano,
"Amor Roma," $22.00
Saturday June 10
Sunday June 11Sunday 1:30pm
410/$5 First Congregational Church, Loper Chapel
Pheobe Alexander, soprano and baroque strings , harpsichord plus Bruce Burchmore
lute, theorbo, baroque guitar - works of Merula. Ciaconni, Ruggieri and other dance/ground bass forms
Hi All,
Franklin asked me to let you know his next lute seminar will be
Saturday, June 24, 1:30pm at his house.
Dinner out together will follow.If you're coming please let me know (anyware@pacbell.net) or let Franklin know (510-526-8468). if you think you'll make it.
Thanks!
Nancy.
Franklin Lei's 
One of our local lutenists, Howard Kadis, has a Renaissance Music Group that will be doing a full-fledged concert on
Sunday, September 26 at the Berkeley
Art Center on Walnut Street in Berkeley.Howard says:
We call ourselves "Ensemble Doulce Memoire" (even though there is already a group by this name in France who have released a few recordings on Dorian) and consist of Loren Chuse, voice and harp, Celia Bartram, viola da gamba Jonathan Harris, recorders and cornetto Howard Kadis, luteThe program will consist of 16th century pieces from Spain, France, and
England, and even a few lute solos.
This posting is to remind you that the lute seminar with Ed Martin is
definitely on, and is scheduled for Saturday, October 9, 1999, at St. James
Episcopal Church in Fremont. Ed has bought his ticket!Our seminar opens up with a lute concert on Friday evening, the 8th, also at
St. James Church. We are tentatively planning to begin at 7:30 pm (to allow
for travel time for others who live away), and tickets will be $10.00.
Afterwards we will go out for pizza and beer, if you would like to join us.Tentative concert:
Concert for Renaissance and German Baroque lutes.
Renaissance lute
1. Solo Scottish and English lute music of the late renaissance 13-course German Baroque lute
2. Suite in C - Johan Gottfried Conradi, 1724
3. Suite in A - Conradi
4. Sonata in B flat major by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (approx 1740)
Lutenist Edward Martin was born and raised in
Duluth, Minnesota, where he began his musical studies at age 7,
by playing the guitar. His interest continued throughout his teen
years, and he studied music formally in the1970's, at the University
of Minnesota, Duluth, under the direction of Daniel Sturm, classical
guitar instructor.
In 1976, he turned his attention to the study of the lute. Since
that time, he has studied with acclaimed lutenists Paul O'Dette,
Toyohiko Satoh, and Hopkinson Smith. In the early 1980's, he was
appointed to the position of Adjunct Professor of Lute at the
College of St. Scholastica, a position which he holds today. He
is acknowledged as one of the Midwest's finest lute teachers.
He is active in the performance of renaissance lutes, baroque
lute, archlute, vihuela, and baroque guitar.
Mr. Martin has a rich background in musical performance; he has
widely performed throughout the Midwestern U.S.A. In 1984, he
was a finalist inthe First International Lute Competition in Toronto.
This was the first and only international competition for the
lute. Mr. Martin has the distinction of being the only American
to have been selected as a finalist. In 1986, he toured the Midwest
with lutenist Rockford Mjos; this tour was made possible by the
prestigious organization Arts Midwest. He again toured the Midwest
and Canada with tenor William Bastian, in 1989. In 1996 and 1997,
he toured the San Francisco Bay area, 
giving solo performances and teaching seminars
and master classes. He has also appeared as soloist, performing
Vivaldi concertos with various orchestras. He has made numerous
recordings for Minnesota Public Radio, and these performances
have also been broadcast on the American Radio network. He is
active as a continuo player for the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra,
and a member of MiLQ (Minnesota Lute Quartet).
In November of 1994, he released his first CD, Lute Songs of Virtues
and Vices, with tenor William Bastian. This recording, on the
Lutedisc label, has had critical acclaim. In addition to his recordings,
Mr. Martin has been published as a critic of various recordings
and books.
In July 1998, he taught and performed in the prestigious San Francisco
Early Music Society Summer Renaissance Music program , where he
was selected as lute instructor. In April 1999, he toured and
performed in Maui, Hawaii.
will start at the church approximately 9:00 am (with a
short break for lunch), and will conclude by 4:30 PM. We will then gather
dinner supplies for a pot luck, and meet at my house for dinner and a
performance party!
The address for St. Jame's Episcopal Church,
37051 Cabrillo Terrace, has easy access off of I-880. Get off
at Thornton Avenue in Fremont, (turn LEFT on top of the overpass
if coming from Berkeley) and drive east across the 880 overpass.
Drive east on Thornton about 3/4 of a mile, turn RIGHT at Cabrillo
Terrace, it is a little church set back away from Thornton. (It
is NOT the
giant church up front on Thornton, which is the Assembly of God).
The Guild Hall might not be available, so we may have to use the
main church. To reimburse for expenses, Xeroxing, and Ed for his
work, we are charging a fee of $25.00 per person. Ed says:
"We will have some warm ups, some ensemble playing of non-threatening single
line polyphonic music, something easy to build confidence, with whatever lutes
we have there, and then I will cover some basic lute topics.""And, of course, performance in the master class - everyone will play-
emphasis is on fun & learning, with little to NO PRESSURE. I want everyone to
feel good, to learn, & to be excited, without anxiety."
Bring
what lutes you have, and for ensemble pieces, a lute in G would
be nice. If you are bringing a lute in different tuning, let us
know as soon as possible so we can arrange music for you! So,
if you would like to come and participate in the seminar and dinner
at my house afterwards, drop me a line or send me a check for
$25.00, to let me know if you are interested and I can get a head
count. Please demonstrate your support for Ed and his interest
in our Bay Area Lute activities by attending, and enjoy our friendship
with each other.
Also, let me know if you would like to arrange a private lesson with Ed on Sunday, October 10th, at my house. As usual, the charge will be $40.00 for an hour lesson.
I can provide directions to my house at the seminar.
Please let others know about this who are not
on the lute-net, but who might
be interested. I need to know as soon as possible for a head count!
email
to Mike Peterson
4617 Mayfield Drive
Fremont, CA 94536
office (510) 784-4412
Dear Northern California Lutenist,
You're invited to a party-lutenanny at the home of Douglas Alton Smith, in
honor of Suzanne Court, a visiting musicologist and lutenist-guitarist
from New Zealand. Consider this a "Congratulations on getting new lutes"
(some of our members did accept delivery of new lutes this year, no??).
It's also a music and lute show-and-tell.When: Friday, August 6th, 5-10 p.m.
Where: 1932 Menalto Avenue, Menlo Park
Who: Hosts Mike Peterson and Doug Smith,
guest Suzanne Court
RSVP: Doug Smith: 650) 322-6026, or smithwriter@compuserve.comTHE GUEST AND CO-HOST -- Ms. Court is preparing a critical edition of the
lute music of Giovanni Terzi, a prominent lutenist-composer of the 1590s.
Doug Smith is the well-known editor of the lute music of Silvius Leopold
Weiss, a former JLSA co-editor (1975-82), and is guest editor of an
upcoming edition of the JLSA devoted to new discoveries about the life and
music of Weiss. He also has a history of the medieval and Renaissance lute
in the final stages of preparation for publication.DIRECTIONS -- Highway 101 to Willow Road exit west. Take Willow Road 3
stoplights to Gilbert (just past the tree in the middle of the road (!),
left on Gilbert. Ahead 7 blocks to Menalto. Jog left 50 yards, Doug is on
the corner of Oak Court across from the market, in a blue house with orange
trees out front.Doug has a small enclosed back yard where we can barbecue. We, your
hosts, will supply chicken, burgers, and franks, and I will ask you to bring a
salad, chips and dips, dessert, beer and soft drinks or juice. Bring lutes,
music and your recent music projects to show to others. Don't forget music stands,
and an extra chair or two!Please join us. We have not had a large get-together for some time, and it
would be good to see all of you again, and make plans for future
activities! If you can't make dinner (ca. 6:30 pm), come later for dessert
and music! I would like to impress Ms. Court with the great group of lute
players we have here in the Bay Area.Dear Associates,
I need your help.
I am possibly anticipating a number of out-of-town lute players visiting for
Ed Martin's concert and seminar here in the Fremont area (in October),
possibly 3 or 4, and I cannot put them up all at my house. Would any of you
be willing to house a visiting lutenist for a few days during the seminar???
Preferably, the closer to Fremont, the better.What I have now is:
Andrew Hartig is coming from Santa Barbara,
Terry Schumacher might be coming from Arizona, and
there might be someone coming from San Diego ( forgot his name).I am also considering expanding the number of concerts for Ed Martin to
include one that Sunday at MusicSources, in North Berkeley- but I cannot do it
by myself. I would need someone to arrange to get fliers in the SFEMS
Newsletters (by mid-August), help with publicity, help out with the concert at
MusicSources with ticket sales, ushering, etc, and organizing programs., etc.The advantage of this is that Ed will earn more money, and it might decrease
the cost of the seminar. But it will also be more work, and I cannot do it by
myself....Please get back to me in 24 hours if you think this is a good idea and you
would be willing to help. Otherwise, it will not happen.click below to send an emailto Michael Peterson:
I
will be attending the Historic Brass Society's workshop at Berkeley
Aug. 13-15. I will be on the faculty directing cornetts and sackbuts,
but Jay will be at
"loose ends". We will be in the Union Square Borders
Bookstore Saturday
Night 8-10, but will both be available for a concert Sunday night
(the Brass
Fest final concert will end around 5PM).
Our concert programs vary substantially from
the bookstore presentations, so
we would hope to have people come to both. In the bookstores,
we do a
"concert with conversation" where we demonstrate our
instruments, answer
questions, talk about the composers (Weiss, Baron, etc.) and talk
about
Baroque music, in general. We also play some things we don't perform
in the
concerts (solo recorder works by van Eyck and Telemann, for example).
The
concerts frature Weiss' Sonata in F-major from our CD as well
as material we
don't play in the bookstore, such as Weiss' Sonata in Bb for lute
and flute
with material which will be on our Vol. 2 CD to be released (hopefully)
next
year.
Our purpose is to acquaint people with us and
to promote our CD to retail
marketers. We would be willing to give a benefit concert or house
concert
for anyone willing to sponsor us. I wasn't able to do both a bookstore
and
concert tour at the same time. Formal paying concerts need to
be booked a
year ahead. Bookstores don't book any further ahead than 2 months.
I still
haven't recieved final confirmation from some of the bookstores.
So we're
just hoping to get some "pickup" appearances wherever
we can. If you would
like to hear us, I can send you a demo tape, or better yet, you
can get our
CD at The Musical Offering record shop in Berkeley 510/849-0211.
Biographies:
ORUM STRINGER
JAY KLALES began his studies of the guitar
in 1962, and the lute in 1972. A
native Pennsylvanian, he has studied locally with Pete Colonna,
Peter Segal,
and Joseph Mays. He also studied with Italian guitarist Oscar
Ghiglia, both
here and in Italy's famous Accademia Chigianna. He also studied
with
Philadelphia composer Donald Rappaport.
His studies of the instrument have had a less than linear
progression, starting in acoustic blues and gradually moving to
classical
guitar and then the lutes. He stresses, however, the similarities
of the
music . . . "In both acoustic blues and Baroque music, for
instance, one
instrument is expected to play a bass line and upper melody and
usually
chords of continuo..." It is this structure which he enjoys
most in guitar
and lute compositions.
On the lutes, he is almost entirely self-taught, having taken
advantage of an already developed guitar technique. He has in
recent years
been concentrating on the works of Baroque period composer/lutenist
Sylvius
Leopold Weiss, each Fall performing concerts dedicated to this
composer which
he has dubbed "The Portable Weiss Festival". With recorderist
Orum Stringer,
he issued Volume I of a series of recordings titled The Portable
Weiss
Festival in 1996.
In addition to a busy solo concert calendar, he performs with
soprano
Molly Pyle and has performed with the Philadelphia Baroque Ensemble,
the
Aeolian Consort, the Brandywine Consort and in various duos. He
is currently
on the faculties of the Settlement Music School, Chestnut Hill
College, and
the Community Conservatory of Music in Doylstown.
ORUM STRINGER studied Baroque recorder technique
with Prof. M. S. Rubin in
New York. After coming to Philadelphia in 1973, he extended his
studies to
include music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He mastered
the
Renaissance cornetto and kortholt and sings with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Renaissance choir under the direction of Edward Handy. He teaches
recorder
and cornetto and has directed large ensembles; in meetings of
the American
Recorder Society and in workshops of the Historic Brass Society.
He further
serves the Historic Brass Society as an editor for the Historic
Brass
Journal. After performing extensively with a number of wind ensembles,
Mr.
Stringer founded the Renaissance wind Band Spectra Musica in 1980
and serves
as its director. He founded the Baroque ensemble The Gloria Consort
in 1994.
He also sits on the board of the Lower Makefield Society for the
Performing
Arts (Bucks County, PA) and is the artistic director for the Lake
Afton
Series of concerts sponsored by St. Andrew's Church, Yardley,
PA. In 1996,
he established Griffin Renaissance Records and serves as President
and CEO.
The company,s first release is The Portable Weiss Festival; music
of Sylvius
Leopold Weiss and Ernst Gottlieb Baron featuring Orum Stringer,
recorder, and
Jay Klales, lute.
I received the latest SFEMS and Cal Performances
fliers for 1999-2000, and
there are some interesting concerts and activities of interest
to lutenists.
"Musick for Elizabeth and Beyond"- music from the court
of Elizabeth I- Byrd,
Dowland, Holbourne, with dance music of John Playford.
Friday, Sept 24, First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto, 8:00 pm
Saturday Sept 25, St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, 8:00
pm
Sunday, Sept 26, Grace Cathedral Chapel, San Francisco, 5:30 pm
tickets $19.00, $22.00
The Milan-based ensemble first played to rave reviews at the 1996
Berkeley
Music Festival, with virtuoistic interpretations of baroque music,
and lute
continuo.
Friday, March 31, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, 8:00
pm
tickets $32.00
J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006
The complete Sonatas and Partitas will be played over two evenings,
the first
in Berkeley and the second in SF.
Saturday, April 1, St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, 8:00
pm
Sunday, April 2, Grace Cathedral Chapel, San Francisco, 5:30 pm
tickets $19.00, $22.00
Also news! SFEMS
will be arranging to have Hopkinson Smith teach a master
class in the Berkeley area, which all lutenists will be invited
to attend.
Although final details and cost has not been firmed up, the tentative
date
will be for Saturday, April 1, from 11 am to 1 pm, followed by
a reception for
Smith, co-sponsored by SFEMS and the Northern California Chapter
of the LSA
(That's us!). The master class format will actually limit only
3 or 4
students to play for Hoppy, but the rest of us can listen and
take notes. The
MusicSources might be a site for the class. Be sure to book ahead
and take
this time off to attend and express support for Hoppy! More info
to follow as
it becomes available!
I will need all of the help of the Northern
California Chapter of the LSA to
help with this event!
And don't forget! Weekend lute
seminar with Ed Martin, visiting lute
instructor, October 8, 9, and 10, 1999! Concerts, teaching, lectures,
parties, lessons, and more!
Mike Peterson
Collegium evenings are community music-making events. For all amateur Singers, Instrumentalists and Music-Lovers. You are invited for an evening of Medieval, Renaissance. or Baroque Music led by a Bay Area Early Music Specialist. (Parts available, by telephone request, two weeks prior to the event.) 7:30 to 9:30 St. Albans's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue in Albany (near Santa Fe and Solano Avenues) Cost $12 Information and Reservations: 510:527-9029 510-549-9799 Information and reservations: 510-527-9029 - www.sfems.org
Next Seminar with Franklin
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Here is a summary of that day.
Thursday, November 19, 1998
There was very little interest in lessons or
any activities with David Rogers
in the local lute community, so we are only offering a concert
at St. James
again. David Rogers said he would be available for any lessons
or coaching
that anyone would like during that weekend. Don't forget the baroque
dance
recital he is playing at at the MusicSources, Sunday, December
6.
I am pleased to announce that the Northern
California Chapter of the Lute
Society of America is sponsoring lutenist David Rogers in a concert
at 7:30 pm
on Friday, December 4, at St. James Episcopal Church's Little
Chapel, 37051
Cabrillo Terrace, Fremont.
Admission is $10.00, and tickets will be sold only at the door.
Seating is limited.
The interesting program will feature solo 17th
and 18th century Italian lute
music of Giovanni Zamboni, Giovanni Kapsperger, and Bernardo Giancelli
played
on a 14-course archlute, and lute music of J. S. Bach transcribed
for the
Italian archlute.
Lutenist David Rogers is currently lutenist
and guitarist with the terra Nova
Consort, the consort in-residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
and a
prize-winner in the 1998 Early Music America/Dorian Records ensemble
recording
competition. Mr. Rogers is also on the performance faculty in
guitar at
Southern Oregon University. He has performed with the Seattle
Baroque
Orchestra, 'Cantores in Ecclesia,' 'Sospirando,' with his wife
Nancy Elliott
in the ensemble 'Duo Ruggiero,' and performed under the director
Andrew
Parrott. Mr Rogers is also the music director at the First Congregational
Church, Ashland, Oregon. His solo CD, 'The Italian Archlute,'
has been
"highly recommended" by Continuo Magazine. The Lute
Society of America
Quarterly has called his technique "formidable." Mr
Rogers has recorded for
Dorian Records and Focus.
Mr. Rogers has studied lute with Hopkinson
Smith and Eugen Dombois at the
Schola Cantorum Basiliensus in Basel, Switzerland, Thomas Binkley
at Indiana
University, and Lyle Nordstrom at Oakland University, as well
as guitar with
Joseph Fava at Wayne State University.
St. James Episcopal Church in Fremont has easy
access off of I-880, located
one-half mile east on Thornton Avenue from the I-880/Thornton
Avenue
interchange. Exit at Thornton Avenue in Fremont, turn LEFT if
coming from
Berkeley (to the East) across the 880 overpass, drive down Thornton
about 1/2
of a mile, turn RIGHT at Cabrillo Terrace. St. James is the little
church set
back away from Thornton. (It is NOT the giant church up front,
which is the
Assembly of God).
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To commemorate the arrival of his brother Fritz from Germany, Hermann Kelber arranged with Franklin Lei to perform Weiss' Lautenpartita in g-moll for an intimate audience at Franklin's house. It was an excellent performance and Michael Peterson has agreed to write a short review in his spare minutes. The group of 14 retired to a local Chinese restaurant after the performance for some fine Berkeley cuisine. |
Tuesday, October 13, 1998 11:44 PM
Romanesca
Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, lute and theorbo; John Toll, harpsichord
Dubbed a "Baroque terrorist" by Gramophone Magazine, violinist Andrew Manze and the group Romanesca have achieved international fame for their diabolical interpretations. Their program will feature music in the 17th century improvisatory style and include sonatas by Biber, Kapsberger, and Marini.
Saturday, November 21, 8 PM
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
For more information check out the San Francisco Early Music Society website at: http://www.sfems.org/hilite02.htm
And in a note from Michael Peterson:
SFEMS is sponsoring a visit by Romanesca, a trio made up of Andrew Manze,
violin, Nigel North, theorbo, and John Toll, harpsichord. I don't have a
SFEMS flier to know exactly what they are playing, but it us usually excellent
17th century music. They are playing November 21, 1998, in Berkeley, usually
at St. John's Congregational Church, on College Ave.
Tickets are $17.00 member, $20.00 non-SFEMS member.Anyway, we ought to show up in-force and introduce ourselves afterwards, and
impress him with our interest and vitality. Perhaps we can meet beforehand
for dinner?? Shall we all go together??
Get your tickets and sent an email to Michael
Peterson or myself
to let us know who's coming from the gang.
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Dear local lute enthusiasts:
Some of you have said I should tell you about performances I am
giving, so here's what's coming up for me. Stanford Professor
Emeritus George Houle is doing a continuing adult education series
at USF this fall. The title is: England's Golden Age -- English
Music in the 17th Century This is a weekly course during the Fall
Quarter at USF's McLaren Center, on the ground floor, Room 252,
from 10:00AM to 12:00 noon on Thursdays.
I am going to be participating in "live
demonstrations" of several different pieces in several of
the course periods. After and during the demonstrations, George
is going to analyse and discuss each piece of music. The live
format permits ready replaying of relevant sections, playing only
some of the parts, and playing other games to illustrate the music.
Professor Houle has specifically given me permission to invite
you to those classes I'm playing in (without charge). Specifically,
those classes that I will be playing in (and what I will be playing)
are as follows( classes that hve been passed are omitted -MAC):
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USF
I'd love to see any of you at these performances. Be sure to
bring
rotten eggs, etc.
