Friday, November 29, 2013

Shakespeare Brings Period Music to Broadway - NYTimes.com


... “How can you do Shakespeare and not have music be prominent?” Ms. van Kampen asked in a recent interview backstage at the Belasco. “It’s not possible!”
The music begins before the plays do. As the audience filed in to a recent matinee of “Twelfth Night,” they were met by the strains of a hurdy-gurdy: a string instrument played with a crank and keys whose droning sound brings bagpipes to mind.
It was played by Arngeir Hauksson, a guitar and lute player originally from Iceland who has played at Shakespeare’s Globe in London for eight years and who, like the other musicians, said he never expected to find himself performing on Broadway. (He later explained that the hurdy-gurdy is “sort of like a one-man band,” demonstrating how its crank turns a wheel that rubs the strings like a bow on a violin, hitting drone and melody strings called chanterelles.)
Ms. van Kampen, a pianist and composer who has written extensively for the theater, said she took a practical interest in Renaissance music and the question of what was performed at Shakespeare’s plays when she became the first music director at the Globe, where these productions originated and where Mr. Rylance was the first artistic director.
But she said her interest in Renaissance music was piqued earlier when, as a girl, she met David Munrow, a recorder player and pioneer of the early-music scene in England.
“He was just so charismatic and exciting,” she recalled. “I think that’s what sort of turned me on to the idea that these weren’t weird sticks played by men with beards and sandals. They actually could make really glorious sounds.”
Music, of course, plays a major role in Shakespeare’s plays. “Twelfth Night” begins with it (“If music be the food of love, play on”) and ends with it (with Feste, the fool, singing “When that I was and a little tiny boy”). But little is known for sure about what music was originally used...

more: Shakespeare Brings Period Music to Broadway - NYTimes.com





Thursday, November 28, 2013

Edition of 27 NOVEMBER is published! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!






Edition of 27 NOVEMBER is published!
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Monday, November 25, 2013

30 NOV. ASHLAND, OREGON: "Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Festival"





Series Two (Venues TBA) classes $15 / $10 members

   
KEVIN CARR

    Roots & A Survey of Bagpiping: history and revival.

Demonstration of the main families of bagpipes, their history and dissemination, social function, and revival in the last 50 years.

    PAT O’SCANNELL

    A Bagpipe Made of Strings - 
A historical survey of the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy) 

O’Scannell takes the class on a tour through time, starting with the Middle Ages in its earliest depictions in the illuminated manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, through its development in the Renaissance  period, and concluding with its later popularity as a folk instrument in the  18th and 19th centuries. She will play a variety of vielles à roue,  culminating with a 1780’s instrument from her collection, built at the Court of  Versailles specifically for a woman. A lecture-demo.


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A series of workshops in traditional "roots" music. | Rogue World Ensemble

from Pat O'Scannel - The instruments which will be present at the afternoon class are a COTY vielle made in the 1780's at the court of Versailles. The instrument is very small---made for the hands of a woman, and as such very rare. It is fully playable. Jack Schuman, a collector of international renown, will be at the class with four of his instruments: a Michael Hubbard copy of a 16th C. instrument, A Pierre Luvet, made in Paris 1738, a Henri Tauvenelle, late 18th C., and a Pajot Jeune 1900-1901. I will also have a copy of a 15th C. instrument and a sinfonia . For the evening's performance, I will perform upon the COTY instrument. Thanks for your interest. Go to: www.rootsacademy.weebly.com to register, and come see for yourself! warmly pat o'scannell 

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

24 JAN - NEDERLAND: OMNIA Clubshow at Altstadt Eindhoven


SOLD OUT

(english below)*
 - Omnia speelt PaganFolk, een zeer unieke vorm van Oer-Keltische en Wereldmuziek, waarin de Natuur, de Levende Planeet en persoonlijke vrijheid de centrale thema’s vormen. De bijzondere handgemaakte akoestische instrumenten die de band gebruikt, hebben op vele festivals in Europa honderdduizenden luisteraars betoverd. Omnia is een band met een bezielde boodschap, die waarschuwt voor de destructie van de natuur door de mens. De groep brengt deze boodschap over met haar muziek, aangevuld met verhalen en poëzie. Hun live optredens staan, naast de muziek, bekend om satirische humor, een rijke visuele aankleding en een unieke benadering van de oude Europese religies en muzikale tradities.

* Omnia Pagan Folk plays a very unique form of Primal Celtic and World Music, in which Nature, the Living Planet and personal freedom are the central themes. The special handmade acoustic instruments the band used in Europe have hundreds of thousands of listeners spellbound at many festivals. Omnia is a band with an inspired message that warns of the destruction of nature by man. The group brings this message with her ​​music, supplemented with stories and poetry. Their live performances are, besides the music, known for satirical humor, a rich visual decoration and a unique approach to the old European musical traditions and religions.



Sunday, November 17, 2013

Hurdy-Gurdy Compositions Catalogue at Drehleier-Musik, German hurdy gurdy site




member post: "I found some notes for Hurdy Gurdy on a website, main tuning in C & G in this liberary."


Hurdy-Gurdy Compositions Catalogue
midi and PDF files for lots of tunes at:
http://www.drehleier-musik.de/archive.php



Drehleier-Musik




30 April - 4 May; Trossin DE: Spielkurs für Dudelsack und Drehleier | Hurdy Gurdy and Bagpipe Courses


32nd Game Exchange - 4 days, 10 courses, 5 countries
30 April - 4 May 2014 at the estate Trossin...


VS-Spielkurs05-2014... die Anmeldungen haben bereits begonnen!!!
(english below)

32. Spielkurs - 4 Tage, 10 Kurse, 5 Länder
30.04. - 04.05.2014 auf dem Gut Trossin 

Anfänger-, Fortgeschrittenen- und Repertoirekurs
für Dudelsack, Hümmelchen und Drehleier
Specialkurse für Diatonisches Akkordeon und Gesang
                                   Ensemblekurs

Ihr wolltet schon lange das Dudelsack- oder Drehleierspielen einmal ausprobieren und hattet bisher noch keine Gelegenheit. Oder Ihr spielt schon ein Instrument und habt Lust, mit netten Leuten Musik zu machen und neue Stücke kennen zu lernen. Vielleicht wollt ihr aber auch ganz einfach mal abschalten, ein angenehmes Wochenende mit Gleichgesinnten verbringen und tanzen bis die Füße müde werden. Dann seid Ihr bei unserem Spielkurs genau richtig.

Unser Kursprogramm berücksichtigt unterschiedliche Spielniveaus und bietet die Möglichkeit, sich von einer breiten Repertoirepalette inspirieren zu lassen. 

Jeden Abend gibt es bis spät in die Nacht eine Session auf der Profis und Laien gemeinsam musizieren. Wer die Tänze nicht kennt – kein Problem, denn einige Tänze werden erklärt oder man schaut geübteren Tänzern einfach auf die Füße
Gäste sind herzliche willkommen!

(english below video)


▶ 30. Spielkurs für Dudelsack und Drehleier - SPECIAL EDITION - auf dem Landgut Trossin - YouTube Published on Oct 10, 2013www.spielkurs.de
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Rückblick auf den Jubiläumskurs vom 08.-12.05.2013
4 Tage - 12 Kurse - 130 Teilnehmer - Referenten aus 7 Ländern
mit:
- Dudelsack Kurs - David Faulkner (England)
- Drehleier Kurs - Grégory Jolivet (Frankreich)
- Folk-Ensemble Kurs - Toon van Mierlo (Belgien)
- Diatonisches Akkordeon - Vincent Boniface (Italien)
- Jodeln/Oberton Singen - Albin Paulus (Österreich)
- Harfen Kurs - Erik Ask Upmark (Schweden)
außerdem Anfänger- und Repertoirekurse für
Drehleier, Dudelsack, Hümmelchen, Mittelalter-Ensemble
mit
Andrea Hotzko - Lisa Wolf - Ralf Gehler - Uli Stornowski - Stefan Straubinger - René Pütsch aus Deutschland
Der nächste Kurs findet vom 30.04. - 04.05.2014 auf dem Landgut Trossin statt.
Infos und Anmeldung auf: www.spielkurs.de
30. Spielkurs für Dudelsack und Drehleier - SPECIAL EDITION - auf dem Landgut Trossin



google translate:


.. the applications have already begun!

32nd Game Exchange - 4 days, 10 courses, 5 countries
30 April - 4 May 2014 at the estate Trossin 

Beginner, intermediate and advanced repertoire Rate
for bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and Hümmelchen
Special courses for diatonic accordion and vocals
Ensemble course


You wanted a long time to try the bagpipes or hurdy-gurdy playing once and you had no opportunity yet. Or do you already play an instrument and you desire to make music with nice people and learn new pieces. You may want to also easily get away, spend a pleasant weekend with like-minded people and dancing until your feet are tired. Then you are exactly right with our price match.

Our course program takes into account different skill levels and offers the opportunity to be inspired by a wide range of repertoire. 

Every night there until late at night a session on the pros and amateurs play together. Who does not know the dances - no problem, because some dances are explained or you look more experienced dancers easy on the feet
Guests are warm welcome!

Spielkurs für Dudelsack und Drehleier - Start