14th Annual Early Music & Country Dance Week

at WORLD FELLOWSHIP CENTER, Conway, NH
A White Mountains family musical retreat with offerings for people of all ages

world fellowship logoThursday - Thursday, June 25th - July 2nd, 2009

The Migrant Muse
Itinerant Masters of Old Europe

A remarkable musical experience at remarkably low cost.

Daily classes form the center of the Early Music Week experience.  You can look forward to:

In addition to your classes, you (and your family members, partners, or friends!) may also enjoy:

Please register early! Our faculty works hard to create stimulating and well-matched classes for the week, so participants are encouraged to apply to the week early, and to take care in filling out our questionnaire.
Tuition is $250; some scholarship money is available. Room and board varies according to choice of accommodations.
For program information and registration, contact: Larry Wallach, tel: 413.528.9065, or larry@simons-rock.edu.

For information about World Fellowship Center, and to make accommodation reservations, contact Andy Davis and Andrea Walsh, Co-directors, tel: 603/447-2280, www.worldfellowship.org reservations@worldfellowship.org

ABOUT THIS YEAR’S THEME:  Music has always been fluid enough to reflect contact and communication between different cultures. In the late Middle Ages, travel conditions became easier and this process accelerated, fertilizing the spectacular stylistic expansion of the Renaissance. Musicians moved about in search of continuing education, noble patrons, a position with the church, a temporary job (such as supplying music for a coronation or royal festival), an audience, a publisher, religious tolerance, or a politically stable situation. Some, like Dowland, went into exile. Wherever they went, they brought their music with them, often blending it with the music of their new locations. In this way, the instrumental virtuosity of Spain moved to Italy and on to England; the vocal virtuosity of Italy spread to Germany; and the contrapuntal mastery of the Flemish masters set the standard for all of Europe.

FACULTY:
JULIAN COLE (voice, viol, recorder) performs and teaches music in the Boston area. He has performed with Ex Umbris, Piffaro, and Phoenix, and has toured English Cathedrals with duo Jadis.  He has performed and recorded several times with Revels, Inc.  Julian has taught Early Music at Union College, Schenectady and at various workshops throughout the Northeast including Pinewoods Early Music Week.
PAMELA DELLAL (voice) is a sought-after oratorio and early-music soloist who has performed with renowned ensembles in Boston and throughout the world. She has sung with the Handel and Haydn Society, Sequentia, Boston Baroque, and Emmanuel Music, and has appeared at music festivals in Europe, America, and Australia. She teaches voice at Brandeis University and has led workshops on vocal technique and interpretation at universities across the U.S.
JANE HERSHEY (viols) studied with Wieland Kuyken at The Hague Conservatory.  As both a violone and viol player, she has performed with many groups, including the Boston Camerata, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, Musicians of the Old Post Road and the Santa Fe Pro Musica;  and in the Aston Magna Festival, Monadnock Music, and BEMF. Her current affiliations are with the trio Charivary, the Carthage Consort, and Arcadia Players, and she is an active free lancer.  She can be heard on a recent Centaur disc of music by Jacquet de la Guerre with Frances Fitch and friends.  She teaches at the Longy School of Music, Powers Music School, and directs the Tufts Early Music Ensemble.
ANNE LEGÊNE (cello, viol, fiddle) was born in Holland and studied cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she was coached in Baroque performing style by Sigiswald Kuijken.  She is currently active as a performer and teacher in Western Massachusetts, directing ensembles and offering lessons at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Hawthorne Valley School, and at Simon's Rock College of Bard. She has participated in concerts with the baroque chamber ensemble "The Italian Connection," collaborating with Ardal Powell, Dana Maiben, Peter Kupfer, and Lucy Bardo.
Roy Sansom (recorder) has been an active recorder player and composer in the Boston area for nearly 30 years.  He has performed with Emmanuel Music in their Bach Cantata series and in many concerts of Handel operas, as well as the Brandenburg concerti.  He has also performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, the New York City Opera Orchestra, the Handel and Hayden Orchestra, the Greenwood Consort, and with Second Wind with Roxanne Layton, performing music for two (sometimes three or four) recorders from many centuries alongside their own compositions and improvisations.  He also works at the vonHuene Early Music Shop testing and making recorders, and teaches at Merrimack College and Brandeis University.
JAY ROSENBERG (voice, guitar, lute) is an original member of Voice of the Turtle, a quartet specializing in the music of the Spanish (Sephardic) Jews, and a member of Promised Land, a trio presenting a program of folk music of American immigrants.  He has many years experience teaching both children (in a thriving Suzuki guitar program) and adults, and has been on the staff of the Pinewoods Camp for ten years. He was also the director of Northern Harmony, an a capella choir, for nine years.
Paul Ross (English Country Dance) is one of the regular dance callers in New York City and Westchester and has called dances from Princeton to Woodstock. He was a dance leader at the Fried-for-All in Lenox, MA and helps direct and dances with the Chelsea English Country Dancers. He has set down some thoughts about teaching in a pamphlet, How to Teach English Country Dancing and composed several dances.
JOSH SCHREIBER SHALEM (Feldenkrais, viol) is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner with a private practice in the Boston area and a special interest in improving functional movement for musicians. He is a founding member of ensembles Seven Times Salt and Long & Away and is currently working towards a Masters in Early Music Performance on viola da gamba at the Longy School of Music. His Feldenkrais teaching is also informed by studies in the Alexander Technique, Tai Chi, Chi Gung, and Jewish spirituality.
LARRY WALLACH (keyboard, recorder), a harpsichordist/pianist, composer, and musicologist, has been on staff at Pinewoods English-American and Early Music weeks, and performs for Country Dances and Playford Balls. He has taught dance music workshops at the Saratoga Dance Flurry, and is a founding member of Early Music Week at World Fellowship, NH. He is active as keyboard player with the Berkshire Bach Society, in the chamber ensemble "Italian Connection."  He is a devotee of Charles Ives, ragtime, and Morris dancing.


PARTICIPANT  QUESTIONNAIRE                                          14th  Annual Early Music Week — 2009
Responding to these questions will help us to arrange the morning classes to suit everyone as well as possible.

Your Name ___________________________________________________________

 

Phone ________________________     E-mail ________________________________

Please list the instruments (and sizes for recorders and viols) that you can play and will bring with you:

Recorders (please give preference, too):  Si / S / A / A8 / T / B / GB / CB [A8=alto up the octave] __________________

 

Viols (with preference):  Treble/Tenor/Bass ___________________________

 

Plucked strings (Lute/Guitar/Harp):__________________________________

 

Keyboard (will play): (Harpsichord, virginals, other)____________________

 

Will bring keyboard (what kind?): _______________________________

 

Other winds:                               Other strings:                                   Other (any).

 

 

Voice (please give your lowest & highest comfortable notes, and the part you usually sing): _______________

 

2. Please list your principal instrument(s), including size where appropriate:

 

3. Would you enjoy playing/singing a solo part? (Y/N)  ____

 

4. Are you interested in performing? (Y/N) ____

 

5. In your own words describe your musical activities, including lessons and performances, and your levels of proficiency on your different instruments. Please include any changes we should know about, such as recent lessons, performances, etc.


Please fill out the questionnaire, detach it from the flyer or copy and paste into an email, and return it as soon as possible to our registrar:

Larry Wallach, 69 Welcome Street, Great Barrington, MA  01230-1103

e-mail larry@simons-rock.edu or call 413/528-9065. If you have questions, feel free to contact Larry.

For accommodations, please contact World Fellowship Center: reservations@worldfellowship.org

In addition, we encourage you to invite friends and family members (whether or not they are musicians). Please help spread the word about Early Music Week and the World Fellowship Center. Kindly let us know if you can help (copy and paste the following into an email, or insert a paper version into an envelope).

 

____ I, (_____________________), would like to help publicize Early Music Week by distributing this!
__email or __ physical copies.

____ Please send World Fellowship Center and Early Music Week (physical or email) brochures to the following:

 

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Address:  _______________________________________________

E-mail:    _______________________________________________

 

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