ToCC presents:
Weekend Workshop Fall 2010: English Court and Theatre Music
Sept. 4 & 5, 2010
Royal St. George College (120 Howland Avenue), Ketchum Room
Pitch: a’=415
Directors:
Lucas Harris, lute, theorbo, cittern, bandora
Borys Medicky, harpsichord
Guest coach:
Ivars Taurins (session IV)
Guest Soloists:
Dawn Bailey and Emily Klassen, sopranos
The Cardinal Consort of Viols
(Sheila Smyth, Linda Deshman, Sara Blake, Valerie Sylvester)
Kathleen Kajioka & Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith, violins
Alison Melville, recorder & Renaissance flute
Participants:
David Abbott, bass & treble viols
Rogan Bogart, theorbo
Linda Deshman, bass & treble viols
Andrew Donaldson, lute
Graham Freeman, theorbo
Roland Hayes, theorbo
David Lenson, theorbo
Julia Seager-Scott, triple harp
Robert Temkin, theorbo
Brad Walton, theorbo
Saturday, Sept. 4
9:30am Meet & greet, registration, setup, tuning
10:00 Session I: Continuo Songs
Short stretching / warmup
Robert Johnson: Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong (Emily Klassen)
Continuo: Linda, Julia, Bob, Rogan, Brad
Charles Coleman: Venus lamenting her lost Adonis (Dawn Bailey)
Continuo: David A., David L., Roland, Graham, Andrew
Break
Henry Lawes: Dialogue on a Kisse (Dawn Bailey & Emily Klassen)
Continuo: tutti
12:45 Lunch
For those who care to bring a lunch:
Optional viewing of film ‘Voluptas Dolendi: I gesti di Caravaggio’ (North American premiere)
Film produced by the Marco Fodella Foundation, featuring Deda Cristina Colonna, actress/dancer, and Mara Galassi, double harp
http://www.fondazionemarcofodella.it/caravaggio.htm
2:00 Session II: Court & Masque Music
John Jenkins: Divisions in g minor for 2 bass viols (Linda Deshman & David Abbott)
Robert Johnson: The Satyr’s Masque (Alison Melville)
Break
Broken consort session (Alison, Linda, David + Andrew D. on lute, + pluckers taking turns on Lucas’s bandora & cittern)
Richard Allison: The Batchelars delight
From Matthew Holmes Consort Books: Nutmigs & Ginger
5:30 ToCC scheduling session for fall semester (please bring date books)
6:00ish Finish
(Sat. evening free)
Sunday, Sept. 5:
10:00 Session III: William Lawes Consort Music
Royal Consort Sett #8, new version (Cardinal Consort)
Theorbo 1 part in pavan: David & Graham (alternate or play together)
Theorbo 2: Bob & Brad
Harp consort #9: Paven on a theme by Cormacke (Julia w/David Abbott, Kathleen Kajioka)
Theorbo: Roland & Rogan (alternate or play together)
10:00 Royal consort & harp consort rehearse simultaneously in separate rooms
11:45 Break
12:00 The two ensembles perform for each other in Ketchum room
12:45 Lunch
2:00 Session IV: English opera between Purcell & Handel
John Eccles: from Act III of Semele – Numbers 38 through 42
Semele: Dawn Bailey; Juno: Emily Klassen; Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith, violin
5:30 Potluck dinner (bring a dish to share if you can)
7:00ish Finish