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5th Annual String Day
For String students of all ages, parents & teachers.
Professors Elizabeth Chang, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Astrid Schween, cello & Salvatore Macchia, contrabass.
9am: Registration, Room 149
9:30am-3:30pm: activities include Faculty Concert, Master Classes, String Sectionals, String Day Orchestra rehearsal and mini-performance with UMass String Students & Raffle Prizes
Bring Your Instrument!
Registration:
No fee for Teachers & Parents accompanying children age 12 or under, lunch available at $10 if booked by 10/8.
Pre-Registration by 10/8: $25, lunch included, late applications accepted if space is available
E freeach participant completes a registration form (www.umass.edu/music/stringdayregform09.doc)
& sends it with $25 fee. Music sent upon receipt of registration.
Registration on 11/1: $35, lunch not included.
For information: 413-545-2227, Klockwood@music.umass.edu
Sponsors:
Stacey Styles Violin Restoration, Amherst, 413-253-8983;
Stamell Stringed Instruments, Amherst; www.stamellstring.com;
Carriage House Violins of Reuning & Sons, Boston www.carriagehouseviolins.com;
Johnson String Instrument, Newton www.johnsonstring.com
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Petrucci Project Ensemble featured in Renaissance Center First Sunday Concert
The second in the UMass Renaissance Center’s First Sunday Concerts on November 1, will feature the Petrucci Project ensemble presenting “Renaissance Roads: Chansons, Frottole, and Songs of the Sephardim.” The group plays music from the printed collections of Petrucci and other early Renaissance sources, and the oral traditions of the Spanish Jews. It is free (though donations will be gratefully received) and open to all. For further information and directions, call 413-577-3600, or visit our web site at www.umass.edu/renaissance.
The Petrucci Project personnel include Lisle Kulbach on viol, voice, and kemenje; Meg Pash, lute, viol, and voice; Jay Rosenberg, lute, oud, saz, percussion, and voice; and Roy Sansom on recorders and other Renaissance winds.
This program will feature works from the publications of Ottaviano Petrucci, beginning in 1501 with the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, which is the first collection of music printed from moveable type. In contrast, it will also feature the music of the Sephardim, handed down in oral tradition during the long diaspora of the Spanish Jews after they were exiled from Spain in 1492.
Meg Pash and Roy Sansom have played together in various early music ensembles since their grad school days at New England Conservatory, notably in Boston Renaissance Ensemble and in the educational outreach ensembles of the Boston Early Music Festival. Lisle Kulbach and Jay Rosenberg have played together for over thirty years, first in Quadrivium, and then in the well-known Sephardic ensemble Voice of the Turtle. This project merges the artists‚ expertise in renaissance performance practice and improvisatory traditional music to produce fun and fresh interpretations of these charming repertoires.
The Fall First Sunday Concert Series at the Renaissance Center will conclude on Sunday, December 6, when the Honest Harmony Madrigal Singers will present a program of music for the Christmas season with music by Praetorius, Victoria, Costeley, Isaac, Guerrero, among others.
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies is an internationally renowned center for the interdisciplinary study of the culture and achievements of the Renaissance period (1400-1700). The Center contributes to the field of Renaissance studies through research, teaching, and outreach to the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, the Amherst community, and beyond. For more information about the Center and a full calendar of activities, visit the Center's web page at www.umass.edu/renaissance.
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