Sunday, November 27, 2011

Third Annual Early Music Day: March 18, 2012

The Stony Brook Music Department announces the third annual Early Music Day:
Sunday March 18 2012, 12-3 pm
Staller Center for the Arts on Stony Brook's main campus (off of Nicolls Rd)


Stony Brook University's Music Department blasts back in time for its third annual Early Music Day. An open-house atmosphere will allow attendees to explore every aspect of music from the Baroque, Renaissance and even Medieval periods. Included are abundant demonstrations on early instruments and music performances.


FREE Admission. All ages. Come and go as you please. Performances and Demonstrations by the Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble, graduate music majors, and guest artists. Bring your sheet music if you are a musician.

Period Instrument Demos on:

Keyboards: harpsichord, fortepiano, virginal, portative organ, clavichord, organ

Strings: violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba, violone, harp, guitar

Percussion: timpani, tenor drum, tambourine

Brass: horn, cornet, trumpet

Woodwinds: oboe, bassoon, flute traverso


Featured Presenters:
The Gregorian Chant Group at Stony Brook

Harpsichord Builder Allan Winkler

Followed by a "Baroque Sundays at 3" concert:
Sang Joon Park – One of the greatest Baroque flautists of his generation, and past winner of the Samuel Baron Award brings his new group, Aula Harmoniae to the Staller Center (Professor Arthur Haas, harpsichord; Martha McGaughey, gamba). Featured will be French Baroque masterpieces and newly discovered Spanish flute repertoire.

For more information, please email Bethany.Cencer@stonybrook.edu

Early Music Day 2012
Sunday, March 18, 12-3 PM
Schedule of Events

Please note: you are free to come and go to events as you please. Explore the different instruments!

(* indicates opportunity for visitors to touch and play instruments.)

Second Floor

Lobby Ensemble Music

Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble Members and Robert Warner, harpsichord

2309 Baroque Violin

Hyewon Kim

2310 Baroque Bass String Instruments: Cello, Viola da Gamba, Violone

Josh Schwalbach, Peeter Coco, Mohit Mansukhani

2313 Baroque Woodwinds: Oboe, Bassoon, Flute (flute 2-3 pm only)

Glenda Bates, Jessica Kunttu, Laurie Baefsky

2314 Lecture/Demonstration on French dances (1:30-3 pm, presentations every half hour)

Caren Abramoff

2315 *Introduction to Harpsichord Building

Allan Winkler

2318 Renaissance Harp (1-3 pm, presentations every half hour)

Rachel Brandewein

2319 *Harpsichord Lessons

Anna Parkitna

2322 Harpsichord Recital (12:45-2:45 pm, please enter/exit quietly)

Students of Arthur Haas

2338 *Brass and Organ: Natural Horn, Cornetto, Valveless Trumpet, Portative Organ

Amanda Tabor, Luke Balslov, Stephen Gamboa

2343 *Fortepiano and Virginal (12:30-3 pm)

Joyce Chen

Third Floor

3317 Stony Brook Chant Group (performances begin at 1 & 2)

Michael Richardson, David Blake, Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Christopher Reames, J.J. Hudson

3319 *Clavichord

Jeff Schaufeld

3331 *Baroque Percussion: timpani, side drum, tambourine

Megan Bednarz

3352 Baroque Guitar

Barkley Heuser

Thank you to the following individuals for assisting with this event:

Michael Hershkowitz, Director of Concerts and Community Education

Paul Newland and the Staller Center for the Arts

Dr. Judith Lochhead, Chair of the Stony Brook Music Department

Anna Reguero for publicity assistance

Andrea Paldy, writer for The Village Times Herald

All of the participants for volunteering their time and talents

Harpsichord movers and tuners

Harpsichordists:

Bethany Cencer

Joyce Chen

Stephen Gamboa

Laurence Vesyoly

Robert Warner

Greeters:

Natalie Kress

Laurence Vesyoly

Bill Wolf



***Events are ongoing unless specified otherwise. Note that the Gregorian chant group will sing from 1-1:30 and 2-2:30 only.

Link to Allan Winkler's homepage:
http://www.mindspring.com/~awinkler/


Thursday, March 17, 2011

Early Music Day 2011 Events

COME AND GO AS YOU PLEASE…

12-1 PM Events

THIRD FLOOR

3317Stony Brook Early Music Choir”

Enjoy the soothing sound of medieval chant and organum, performed by an à capella choir. ~Michael Richardson, musicologist and director

3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld

3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna

SECOND FLOOR

LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco

2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton

2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis

2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons

with Satono Norizuki

2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks

BASEMENT

Rm 0066 12:15-1 pmRenaissance Dance Workshop” All ages/no experience necessary.

Learn how people danced in the 1500s: fun, easy to learn dance steps accompanied by live music!

~Dorothy Olsson (Director, New York Historical Dance Company)

0111 1230-1:10 pmBaroque Jam Session” All ages

For all musicians and instruments (bring your own instrument, or play the school’s harpsichord or Baroque percussion). Music is provided. Casual atmosphere.

~Stephen Gamboa (harpsichordist and conductor)

1-2 PM Events

THIRD FLOOR

3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld

3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna

3354 “Romantic or Baroque?” Interpreting a Vivaldi Aria with Elena Mindlina

1-2 PM Events cont.

SECOND FLOOR

LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco

2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton

2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis

2315 “Recital Renditions”

Professor Haas and his students perform a potpourri of harpsichord music. Walk-ins welcome.

2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons

with Satono Norizuki

2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks

2343 “Not Your Mother’s Piano” Fortepiano Demo/Lessons with Marie Blair

BASEMENT

0111 1:20-2 pmBaroque Jam Session” All ages

For all musicians and instruments (bring your own instrument, or play the school’s harpsichord or Baroque percussion). Music is provided. Casual atmosphere.

~Stephen Gamboa (harpsichordist and conductor)

0113 “Woodwind Wonders” Baroque Flute and Oboe Demo/Performance

with Glenda Bates and Robert Warner

2-3 PM Events

THIRD FLOOR

3317Stony Brook Early Music Choir”

Enjoy the soothing sound of medieval chant and organum, performed by an à capella choir. ~Michael Richardson, musicologist and director

3319 “Quiet, Yet Commanding” Hands-on Clavichord Demo with Jeff Schaufeld

3331 “Harpsichord Hurrah” Harpsichord Demo/Lessons with Anna Parkitna

SECOND FLOOR

LOUNGE (NEAR ELEVATOR) “Recorders Represent” Recorder Demos with John Bracco

2310 “The Other Harp” Baroque Harp Demo with Christa Patton

2314 “Seventeenth-Century Strum” Baroque Guitar with Yannis Petridis

2315 “Recital Renditions”

Professor Haas and his students perform a potpourri of harpsichord music. Walk-ins welcome.

2-3 PM Events cont.

2318 “Elizabethan Splendor” English Virginal and Portative Organ Demos/Lessons

with Satono Norizuki

2322 “Strings with Attitude” Baroque Violin & Viola Demos with Kristi Hendricks and Emmy Holmes-Hicks

2343 “Not Your Mother’s Piano” Fortepiano Demo/Lessons with Marie Blair

BASEMENT

0113 “Woodwind Wonders” Baroque Flute and Oboe Demo/Performance

with Glenda Bates and Robert Warner

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3 PM: BAROQUE SUNDAYS AT 3 CONCERT TODAY (FREEWILL DONATION)

RECITAL HALL (ENTER OUTSIDE THROUGH STALLER CENTER)

“The Gift of Song” - Come to hear some of the most endearing vocal music from the Baroque period for singers and instruments. This concert features cantatas, songs, and excerpts from operatic masterpieces.