Amherst Early Music Festival Concert Series 2007
All concerts in Evans Concert Hall, in Cummings Arts Center, at Connecticut College.Concerts begin at 7:30 unless indicated below.
Admission for evening concerts free to participants; tickets available to general public for $20/15 for students and seniors.
All-Festival concert pass may be purchased for $99.
Download an order form (PDF) for audio or video recordings of these performances.
The order form does not mention that Michael Hesse videotaped most of the performances. Ask Michael to find out if the performance you want was video recorded.
Your CDs and DVDs will not come with "liner notes." Click the links of individual performances below to download the programs (PDF).
7/10 Sendebar Cantigas, Cansos e Dansas: Medieval Songs and Dances of the Western Mediterranean.
This recital explores the rich repertoire of paraliturgical and secular songs and dances composed in Spain, France, and Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The program features selections from the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X, troubadour songs by Bernadt de Ventadorn and Berenguer de Palazol, anonymous pilgrim songs from the Catalan manuscript known as the Llibre Vermell of Montserrat, and courtly Italian dances. Mauricio Molina, music director, frame drums, bagpipes; Carlo Valte, oud; Emily Eagen, voice; Tim Fuson, percussion.
7/11 5:30 p.m. Il Ballo Nobile, Amherst Early Music Festival Historical Dance Program A Program of Renaissance and Baroque Dances. In memory of Kathryn T. Lewis
(1947-2006).
8:30 p.m. Nigel North, lute Sponsored in part by the Lute Society for America.
7/12 Amherst Baroque Soloists Julianne Baird, soprano; Dana Maiben, violin; Saskia Coolen, recorder; Janet See, flute; Washington McClain, oboe; Michael McCraw, bassoon; Rainer Zipperling, viol and cello; Arthur Haas, harpsichord.
7/13 Opera Project: Cavalli's La Calisto Fully staged with singers, dancers, and orchestra, directed by Alex Weimann. Stage director, Drew Minter, with Dorothy Olsson, Kaspar Mainz, and Lawrence Rosenwald.
7/14 1:30 p.m. Baroque Academy Student Concert (free admission)
3:00 p.m. Workshop Student Concert (free admission)
7:30 p.m. Faculty Concert; All-workshop Collegium conducted by Robert Eisenstein.
7/15 3:00 p.m. Historical Harp Society Concert
7/17 Flanders Recorder Quartet La Musica Italiana Music from 1400-1750. Tom Beets, Bart Spanhove, Joris Van Goethem, Paul Van Loey, recorders.
7/18 5:15-6:15 p.m. (Crozier-Williams, 1962 Room) "The Recorder in the Classroom"
How Do We Make a Child's First Experience Playing an Instrument Meaningful? (free admission)
Short presentation of "Flutes and Drums Around the World" by Nina Stern,recorder and Mauricio Molina, percussion.
Round Table discussion with panelists: Barbara Zinn Krieger ("Making Books Sing"), Letitia Berlin (President of the ARS board), Joan Kimball (Piffaro), Bonnie Kelly (ARS Board member, Educator), Pam Yanco (Music Education, Boston University)
7/20 Theater Project: Triomphi: A Poet's Vision of Love and Truth. Petrarch's Triumphs expressed in music of the Italian Renaissance. Created and Directed by Grant Herreid.
7/21 1:30 p.m. Virtuoso Recorder Concert (free admission)
3:00 p.m. Workshop Student Concert (free admission)
7:30 p.m. Faculty Concert; All-workshop Collegium conducted by Webb Wiggins.