BEMF SCHEDULE, Tues-Thurs, June 10-12 (long)
Sheila Beardslee Bosworth
BEMF SCHEDULE, Tuesday-Thursday, June 10-12, 1997
These listings compiled from BEMF 1997 yearbook and from
information submitted by concurrent event performers, the American
Recorder Society, Early Music America & Viola da Gamba Society of America.
(includes some events not listed on BEMF web page). All information accurat=
e
to the best of my knowledge on the date posted.
Tuesday, June 10
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During BEMF '97 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Musical Instrument Collection is open 2-4 pm daily.
12 NOON
Thomas Fritzsch, Baroque 'cello: J.S. Bach "Suites for
Unaccompanied 'cello." Marsh Chapel, Boston Univ., 735
Commonwealth Ave, Boston. 353.3345 Free
12:15 PM
Liber unUsualis (Melanie Germond, Carolann Buff & William
Hudson): "Love, Loss & Loyalty" -- vocal music by Machaut &
Ciconia. King's Chapel, Tremont & School Sts, Boston. 227.2155
Donation
2-4 PM
Musical Instruments Gallery open at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 267.9300. Regular
Museum admission fees apply.
5:30 PM
Harmonie Universelle (Catherine Bull, traverso; Daniel Pyle,
lautenwerck): "A Flute for the Sun-King" -- Hotteterre, de la
Barre, D'Anglebert & others. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church,
645 Boylston St, Boston. 404/627.9077 $5
6:40 PM
BEMF Opera Fanfare: Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble.
Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St, Boston. Free with
BEMF Opera ticket
7 PM
BEMF Centerpiece Production (O'Dette, Stubbs, Edwards,
Holman, dir): Rossi "L'Orfeo." Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219
Tremont St, Boston. 894.1333 $25-70
NON BEMF EVENTS TODAY, June 10
8 PM
Masterworks Chorale Summer Open Sing
Masterworks Chorale (Allen Lannom, dir): Open Sing -- Mozart
"Requiem." Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston, 149 Old
Spring St, Lexington. 566.9048 $6 (scores provided)
Music in the Meetinghouse Series
Sara Nichols Landgren, traverso; Cynthia Roberts, violin; Allen
Whear, 'cello; Shirley Matthews, fortepiano: Bach "Chaconne,"
"Flute Sonata in e minor;" Telemann, Masse. 1796
Meetinghouse, Hillside St, Yarmouth ME. 207/846.6259 $14/5,
12
Wednesday, June 11
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9 AM-10:30 AM
BEMF & EMA co-sponsored Roundtable: "A New Look at Old
Keyboards" -- Willard Martin & David Sutherland, keyboard
makers. Cambridge Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 661.1812 $5
or bemf pass
9:45 AM
BEMF Outreach Players: School Concert & Exhibition Tour. Park
Plaza Castle, Boston. 661.1812 (advance registration through
schools)
10:30 AM-12 NOON
BEMF & EMA co-sponsored Roundtable: "Music in the Italian
Renaissance" -- Willard Martin, David Sutherland, Stuart Pollens,
Massimo Ossi, panelists. Cambridge Room, Park Plaza Hotel,
Boston. 661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
11 AM-6 PM
BEMF Exhibition. Park Plaza Hotel & Castle, Boston. 661.1812
$5 or bemf pass
11 AM
Duo LiveOak (Nancy Knowles, soprano; Frank Wallace,
Romantic guitar & baritone): "Schubert's Serenade" -- Schubert
songs & guitar works by J.K. Mertz performed on 1854 guitar.
Boston Center for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Ave,
Boston. 244.1027 $8/5
11:45 AM
BEMF Outreach Players: School Concert & Exhibition Tour. Park
Plaza Castle, Boston. 661.1812 (advance registration through
schools)
12 NOON
Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, treble & bass viola da gamba; Olav
Chris Henriksen, lute & theorbo): "Le Tresor d'Orphee" --
DuCaurroy, Guedron, deVisee, Marais, Forqueray & others.
Concert Room, The Boston Conservatory of Music, 8 The
=46enway, Boston. 536.6340 $10/7
=46ortune's Wheel (Shira Kammen & Robert Mealy, vielles & harps;
Heather Knutson & Paul Cummings, voices; John Fleagle, voice,
harp, lute, sinfonia): "Songs of Love & Nature -- Music of 13th-
Century France." Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645
Boylston St, Boston. 776.8530 $10/6
Viols at BEMF: Janet Haas plays Marais & Forqueray. Whittier
Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003 $5 or bemf pass
1 PM
Ensemble Soleil (Jean Twombly & Gigi Turgeon, Baroque violins;
Peter Lehman, theorbo; Margaret Angelini, harpsichord; Peter
Tourin, viola da gamba); Douglas Worthen, traverso: "The Italians
& the French Connection" -- Turini, Bertali, Rossi, Vitali,
Boismortier & Couperin. First & Second Church, 66 Marlborough
St, Boston. 965.3380 $8/6
Viols at BEMF: Tina Chancey, pardessus de viole -- "Not Just for
Women!" Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003
$5 or bemf pass
1:30 PM
BEMF, EMA & ARS co-sponsored Lecture-Demonstration:
"Thanks, Kiwi, with best wishes from Henry Purcell" -- Alec
Loretto, lecturer; chamber ensemble led by Aldo Abreu.
Cambridge Room, Park Plaza Castle, Boston. 661.1812 $5 or
bemf pass
2-4 PM
Musical Instruments Gallery open at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 267.9300. Regular
Museum admission fees apply.
2 PM
Les Fl=FBtes Evocatifs (Teresa Texeira & Nedra Bickham, traversi;
=46rances Conover Fitch, harpsichord): "Passion, Grace & Elegance"
-- Marais, Monteclair, Pla, Locatelli & Philidor. Goethe Institut,
170 Beacon St, Boston. 628.2647 $8/6
Tierce Coulee (Virginie Landre, mezzo-soprano; William Thauer,
Baroque oboe & recorder; Rhona Freeman, harpsichord; Roland
Hutchinson, viola da gamba): "Tendres Amours" -- Monteclair,
Clerambault & Chauvon. College Club, 44 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston. 464.3331 $7/5
Viols at BEMF: Joan Boorstein & Hannah Davidson play English
lyra viol duos. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston.
489.0003 $5 or bemf pass
2:30 PM
Renaissonics (John Tyson, recorder, pipe & tabor; James Johnston,
violin; Daniel Ryan, violoncello; Olav Chris Henriksen, archlute);
Patrick Lindley, harpischord; Charles Garth & Maris Wolff,
dancers: "Renaissonics" -- Italian & French dances, divisions, &
improvisations on music by Caroso, Praetorius, Negri, Dalla Casa
& others. Boston Center for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth
Ave, Boston. 661.3353. $15/10
3:30-5 PM
BEMF & EMA co-sponsored Roundtable. "Promoting Your Early
Music through Audio on the WWW." Cambridge Room, Park
Plaza Hotel, Boston .661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
4 PM
Musicians in Ordinary (Hallie Fishel, soprano; Marcos P=FAjol, bass-
baritone; John Edwards, lute & theorbo): Airs, duets, dialogues &
lute solos by Moulinie & Lambert. Emmanuel Church Library, 15
Newbury St, Boston. 416/603.4950 $10/8
Lucy Yates, soprano; Claire Fontijn, Na'ama Lion & Mary
Oleskiewicz, traversi; Brent Wissick, 'cello & viola da gamba;
David Schulenberg, harpsichord): "Phyllis & Thirsis" -- Strozzi,
Bembo, Monteclair, Quantz, Jacquet de la Guerre, J.S. & C.P.E.
Bach. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston.
283.2072 $8/5
Viols at BEMF: Bill Monical answers your questions about viols.
Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003 $5 or bemf
pass
5 PM
Belladonna (Clea Galhano, recorder; Margaret Humphrey, violin;
Barbara Weiss, harpsichord; Rebecca Diederich, 'cello): "Folia
=46estiva" -- Falconiero, Storace, Ortiz, Bartolomeo de Selma &
others. Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St,
Boston. 612/644.8298 $6
5:15 PM
Musica Poetica (Robert Mealy, Baroque violin; Lynn Tetenbaum,
viola da gamba; William Porter, harpsichord); Paul Guttry, bass-
baritone: Buxtehude, Erlebach, Bruehns & Tunder. Gordon Chapel,
Old South hurch 645 Boylston St, Boston. 983.5271 $7/5
5:30 PM
BEMF Pre-Opera Lecture. Transportation Building, Conference
Room 3, 2nd Floor, 10 Park Plaza, Boston. 661.1812 Free with
BEMF Opera ticket
6:40 PM
BEMF Opera Fanfare: Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble.
Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St, Boston. 661.1812
=46ree with BEMF Opera ticket
7 PM
BEMF Centerpiece Production (O'Dette, Stubbs, Edwards,
Holman, dir): Rossi "L'Orfeo." Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219
Tremont St, Boston. 894.1333 $25-70
8 PM
BEMF '97: Orlando Consort: "The Art of Mediaeval Polyphony.
" Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston. 894.1333
$15-28
11 PM
BEMF '97: The Parley of Instruments: "Pour le coucher du roy --
Late Night Chamber Music at the French Court." Emmanuel
Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 894.1333 $15
Thursday, June 12
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9-10:30 AM
BEMF & EMA co-sponsored Roundtable. "Financial Planning &
Insurance Concerns. "Cambridge Room, Park Plaza Hotel,
Boston. 661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
9:30 AM-7:30 PM
ARS Recorder Event: Second American Jazz Recorder Festival
1997, co-sponsored by ARS & Berklee College of Music. Hear the
recorder in jazz, blues, crossover, Latin, world & new age music
(final concert starts at 6 pm!). Performers include Pete Rose, Joel
Levine, John Tyson, Clea Galhano, Scott Reiss, Steve Tapper, Jim
Tinter & the ARS Recorder Big Band '97. Berklee Recital Hall,
1140 Boylston St., Boston. Pre-registration required
303/347.1120 $25/ 20 ARS
9:45 AM
BEMF Outreach Players: School Concert & Exhibition Tour. Park
Plaza Castle, Boston. 661.1812 (advance registration through
schools)
10 AM
BEMF '97: Lucy Graham, choreographer & Eleonora Fuser,
commedia dell'arte actress -- 17th-Century Dance Workshop,
"From Court to Commedia." Emmanuel Church Library 15
Newbury St, Boston. 661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
10:30 AM-12 NOON
EMA Roundtable. "The Climate for Funding Early Music" -- Jan
Strunkard, Barbara Barclay, Mary Deissler, panelists. Cambridge
Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
11 AM-6 PM
BEMF Exhibition. Park Plaza Hotel & Castle, Boston. 661.1812
$5 or bemf pass
Viols at BEMF: Barbara Zuchowicz plays French & German
Baroque music. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston.
489.0003 $5 or bemf pass
11:30 AM
E17 -- Ensemble 17th-Century (Lorna Young Hildebrandt,
soprano; Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto; Gregory Hamilton, theorbo;
Mark Janello, harpsichord): "Songs & Sinfonias of the 17th
Century" -- Frescobaldi & Schuetz. Ballroom, Boston Center for
Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. 313/668.1710
$8/5
11:45 AM
BEMF Outreach Players: School Concert & Exhibition Tour. Park
Plaza Castle, Boston. 661.1812 (advance registration through
schools)
12 NOON
John Solum, traverso; Carol Lieberman, Baroque violin, Thomas
=46ritzsch, Baroque 'cello; Mark Kroll, fortepiano: "Symphonies da
Camera" -- Beethoven symphonies, as transcribed by J.N.
Hummel. Marsh Chapel, Boston Univ., 735 Commonwealth Ave,
Boston. 353.3345 Free
Liber unUsualis (Carolann Buff & Melanie Germond, sopranos;
William Hudson, tenor): "Vocal Music of Guillaume de Machaut
& Johannes Ciconia. "Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church, 15
Newbury St, Boston. 789.4718 $8/5
Viols at BEMF: Brent Wissick, lecture-demonstration on music
of Bononcini. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston.
489.0003 $5 or bemf pass
12:30 PM
Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company; Frances Conover Fitch &
Peter Sykes,harpsichords: Dances from Lully's "Les Festes de
l'Amour et de Bacchus;" harpsichord music by Lully & Gaspard
Leroux. Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge.
354.5191 Free
1 PM
BEMF Recording Seminar I: "Aesthetics & Mechanics." Frederick
Bashour, Ellen Hargis, Max van Egmond, Peter Watchorn,
panelists; Christopher Greenleaf, moderator. Terrace Room, Park
Plaza Hotels, Boston. 661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
Sudie Marcuse-Blatz, soprano; Robert E. Smith, harpsichord;
James Nicholas, 'cello: Cantatas & Motets by Campra, Couperin,
Monteclair & others. Emmanuel Church Library, 15 Newbury St,
Boston. 860/668.5981 $8
Viols at BEMF: Tim Scott plays Bach, Schenk & Corelli.
Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003 $5 or bemf
pass
2-4 PM
Musical Instruments Gallery open at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 267.9300. Regular
Museum admission fees apply.
2 PM
BEMF Performance Masterclass: Monica Huggett, violin -- Solo
repertoire of J.S. Bach. Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St, Boston.
661.1812 $5 or bemf pass
Charivary (Laura Jeppesen & Jane Hershey, viole da gamba;
Catherine Liddell, theorbo & Baroque guitar): "Images in Music
from the Splendid Century" -- Marais' music with readings from
Moliere plays, contemporary diaries & letters. French Library &
Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough St, Boston. 239.3311 $12/8
Entr'acte (Amy Herbitter, recorder, voice & lute; Robert W. Butts,
vielle, lute, recorder & voice): "A chantar a jouer" -- Hildegard,
Muset, Machaut, Jacopo, Oswald & others. First & Second Church,
66 Marlborough St, Boston. 201/625.0459 $8/5
No=EBl Bisson, soprano; Vaughan Howells, countertenor; Mark
Dwyer, organ: Pergolesi "Stabat Mater." Church of the Advent, 30
Brimmer St, Boston. 726.8407 $10/7
Second Wind Recorder Duo (Roxanne Layton & Roy Sansom,
recorders); Joseph Payne, harpsichord; Daniel Ryan, 'cello: "Fire &
Ice" -- Anonymous, Bach, Bartok, Vivaldi & others. Emmanuel
Church Library, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 489.3906 $12/10
Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano & Howard Bass, lutes:
"Loves Lost... & Found" -- Dowland, Danyel & Morley. The
College Club, 44 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. 703/379.8552
$7/5
Viols at BEMF: Ruth Markowitz & Friends play English consort
music. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003 $5
or bemf pass
2:30 PM
ARS Recorder Play-in! Gene Murrow, ARS President, leader.
Bring recorders & a stand. Community Church of Boston
Guatemala Room, 565 Boylston St, Boston Free
3 PM
Ensemble Rebel (J=F6rg-Michael Schwarz & Karen Marie Marmer,
Baroque violins; Susie Napper, viola da gamba & Baroque 'cello;
Eric Milnes, harpsichord & organ): "Da Parigi a Vienna" -- Rebel,
=46. Couperin, Rosenmueller, Pohle, Kerll & Schmelzer. Gordon
Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston.
718/454.9524 $10/8
Jonathan Daniels & Sonja Lindblad, recorders; Peter Sykes,
harpsichord: "Virtuoso Baroque Trios for Recorders &
Harpsichord." Museum of Afro-American History, 46 Joy St,
Boston. 508/263.2578 $10
Bonnie Choi, harpsichord: Bach, Forqueray & Ligeti. Boston Center
for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Ave, Boston.
716/242.9029 Free
Viols at BEMF: Judith Davidoff talks about 20th century viol
music. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. 489.0003 $5
or bemf pass
4 PM
BEMF Performance Masterclass: Ellen Hargis, voice -- Italian
vocal repertoire. Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St, Boston. 661.1812
$5 or bemf pass
Susanne Peck, soprano; Douglas Freundlich & Bob Asprinio, lutes;
Jane Hershey, viola da gamba: "This Trembling Shadow" --
Elizabethan lute songs. Emmanuel Church Library, 15 Newbury
St, Boston. 648.3873 $10/5
Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord: Poglietti "Rossignolo" (complete).
Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston.
527.6411 $8/6
EMA Musical Tea -- Performances by Ensemble 17th-century &
Brandywine Baroque. Cambridge Room. Park Plaza Castle, Boston.
216/229.1685 $5 or bemf pass
Viols at BEMF: Bruce Bellingham & Friends play music of Byrd,
Ellington & Cage. Whittier Room, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston.
489.0003 $5 or bemf pass
5:30 PM
BEMF '97: Margriet Tindemans & Sarah Cunningham, viole da
gamba; Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord: "Angels & Devils" --
Marais, Forqueray & others. Emerson Majestic Theatre, 219
Tremont Street, Boston. 894.1333 $15-28
6 PM
Last concert starts NOW! Second American Jazz Recorder
=46estival 1997, co-sponsored by ARS & Berklee College of Music.
Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston St., Boston. Concert-only
tickets: $5 available at ARS Booth #116, sorry, no sales at event
6:15 PM
Boston Clavichord Society Meeting. Harpsichord Clearing House
Exhibit area, White Hill Room, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston..
8 PM
BEMF '97: Rossi "L'Orfeo" Renaissance Violin Band (Peter
Holman, dir): "Pour les Violons du Roy -- French Orchestral
Music from Beaujoyeux to Lully." Emerson Majestic Theatre,
219 Tremont Street, Boston. 894.1333 $15-28
11 PM
BEMF '97: Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, lutes: "Il Divino --
Music of Francesco da Milano." Church of St. John the
Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street, Boston. 894.1333 $15
Sheila Beardslee Bosworth
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Editor, Boston Early Music News
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