Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 15 - 22, 2000

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 15 - 22, 2000 Program Director: Chris Rua Staff: Kathleen Campbell Bob Castellano Barbara Finney Beverly Francis Janet Haas Jane Hershey Fred Jodry Lisle Kulbach Judith Linsenberg Larry Lipkis* Margaret Ann Martin Sarah Mead Gene Murrow Dorothy Olsson Carol Schlaikjer Jennifer Barron Southcott Ellen Tepper Larry Wallach Larry Zukof *Advisor, plus: Julian Cole Steve Howe

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Our theme this year "Cathedral, Court and Country: A Day in the Life" gives us the opportunity to explore the interactions between the various strata of community life in a Cathedral city: the sacred music of the cloisters and the secular music of the court, the market place and the manor house, court dances and country dance, all will be represented amongst the pines at Early Music Week 2000. In our portrait of people from the past, we'll feel what it was like to be a courtier, a nun, a market vendor, or perhaps a cleric.

With a staff of professional performer-teachers and such an expansive palette of musical experiences to choose from, there is something for everyone, from the relative beginner to the highly experienced. The daily schedule includes a morning class in instrumental or vocal technique followed by a choice of dance classes in English country dance or historical dance. Two afternoon classes offer a variety of music and dance options. Classes range from beginner to advanced, some with instruments available for those who wish to try something new. Experienced players can choose from ensemble classes in winds (recorder, reeds, brass), strings (viola da gamba, violin), plucked strings (lute, harp) and harpsichord, as well as mixed ensembles, from broken consorts to baroque ensembles to dance band classes. Singers may work on solo and ensemble repertoire, in chorus and mixed ensembles. Each evening offers an English country dance ball. To meet your need for music and instrumental supplies, and perhaps to pique your curiosity, The Early Music Shop of New England will be present and open every day.

Special activities through the week will illustrate the theme through occasional lectures, staff presentations, informal camper singing and playing, afternoon tea, and of course, parties. The week culminates with an all-camp performance, banquet and gala ball.

A special addition this year will be the English Dance Leaders Training in Music led by Gene Murrow for a pre-registered group of current and aspiring English country dance leaders.

So come join us and stroll through our cathedral city in the woods as we revisit the past through song and dance!

Early Music Week at Pinewoods Daily Schedule
7:45 - 8:15	Breakfast
8:45 - 9:05	Morning warm-ups for all
9:15 - 10:45	First morning class
11:15 - 12:15	Dance classes
12:15 - 1:00	Break, swimming, etc
12:45 - 1:30	Lunch served cafeteria style
2:00 - 3:15	First afternoon class
3:30 - 4:45	Second afternoon class
5:00 - 5:30	Teatime
5:30 - 6:30	Free time, with faculty rehearsals and informal camper readings
6:30	Dinner
7:45	Mini-lectures
8:15	Community Dance Party
9:45 - 11:00	Special Events

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Kathleen Campbell (Special Events) teaches and sings in the NYC area. A former soprano soloist with the Wiener Kammeroper and the Ensemble Musica Antiqua of Vienna, she is also an active country dancer and body movement student. She is a frequent Pinewoods staff member, and has formed a performance duet with Margaret Ann Martin, specializing in 19th-century and Edwardian songs.

Robert M. Castellano (Lute, Theorbo, Renaissance Winds) holds a Masters in Performance of Early Music from Indiana University. He is the lute instructor for the Five College Early Music Program, and has served as the director of the Early Music Ensemble at Dartmouth College. He has performed with the Boston Renaissance Ensemble, the Acme Lute Movers, An Honest Collinge, the Arcadia Players, the Harwood Early Music Ensemble, and at the Boston and Amherst Early Music Festivals.

Barbara Finney (English Country Dance) has a dance background which includes a variety of styles, including Renaissance and Baroque court dance. She teaches at the weekly dance of the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, and over the last twelve years has called at many other dances in the eastern U.S. and Canada and at Pinewoods Camp.

Beverly Francis (English Country Dance) has taught country dance in New York City for some twenty years. She has emceed several New York Playford Balls in addition to running workshops on the Eastern seaboard, California, Canada and at Pinewoods. When not pursuing her particular interest in the country dance of Jane Austen's time, Beverly is a member of New World Sword.

Janet Haas (Viol) is a Boston area performer on viola da gamba and violone. She has studied with Laura Jeppesen and John Hsu. She has performed regularly with La Sonnerie (Boston), Oriana (New York), and the Benefit Street Chamber Players. Janet is a popular coach for the Viola da Gamba Society of America, locally and at national workshops. In real life, Janet teaches strings for the Lexington Public Schools and conducts three orchestras. She has been a guest conductor and clinician for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association festivals and conferences.

Jane Hershey (Viol) studied at The Hague Conservatory with Wieland Kuijken. She has performed on viola da gamba and violone with Monadnock Music, the Arcadia Players, Emmanuel Music, Abendmusik and the Aston Magna Festival. She is member of the trio Charivary performing at Boston's MFA and elsewhere, and has recorded with Laura Jeppesen on a recent Titanic CD. Recent recordings are with Hesperus (on Koch) and LiveOak (on Centaur). Jane teaches at the Powers Music School, the Longy School and Tufts University.

Frederick Jodry (Voice) is active in New England as a conductor, organist, harpsichordist and countertenor. He directs the choirs of Brown University in Providence and serves as Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Church in Newport. Since 1982 he has led the Schola Cantorum of Boston in performances of Renaissance Polyphony. The Schola has performed and recorded extensively with Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata.

Lisle Kulbach (Violin) is a founding member of Voice of the Turtle, a group which has specialized in the gathering together and performance of Sephardic music for 20 years. The group has 10 recordings under the Titanic Label. Lisle is also a member of Phoenix, has played in many performances of the Revels, and teaches piano at the Powers Music School and Early Music at Concord Academy.

Judith Linsenberg (Recorder) has performed throughout the U.S., including performances at the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, with Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, the Los Angeles Opera, the Oregon, Carmel, and Philadelphia Bach Festivals, and the LA, Seattle, and Portland Baroque Orchestras. A Fulbright scholar to Austria, she holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University. She has recorded for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Dorian, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musical Heritage Society and Hanssler Classics.

Larry Lipkis (Viol, Recorder) is Chair of the Music Department at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he directs the early music program and teaches music theory. He plays viols and Renaissance winds with the Baltimore Consort. As a composer, Larry has three pieces on CD, and his most recent orchestral work, "Harlequin," was premiered in 1997 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Margaret Ann Martin (Keyboard) has been coming to Pinewoods since 1970. She has played accordion and/or piano for English and traditional country dances, square dances, contra dances and morris. Lately, she teaches piano at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT; she plays for English country dances with the Playford Consort and MGM, and has recorded with both bands. Other performance venues are duo-piano recitals and programs of popular music of the 19th and 20th centuries performed with Kit Campbell.

Sarah Mead (Viol) is Artist-In-Residence at Brandeis University, has taught at Tufts and Northeastern Universities and in many early music workshops in the U.S. and England and is a former Program Director of Pinewoods Early Music Week. She is the author of the chapter on Renaissance Theory in A Performer's Guide to the Renaissance, published by G. Schirmer. In the Boston area, she has performed with Emmanuel Music, the Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Viol Consortium among others.

Gene Murrow (English Country Dance, Recorder, Dance Leaders Program) is active in both country dance and early music; he teaches at numerous early music workshops, ARS chapter meetings, and currently serves as President of the American Recorder Society. He has a BA in music from Columbia and studied oboe with Lois Wann at Juilliard. He is a former Program Director of Early Music Week at Pinewoods Camp and the current Program Director of English Dance Week.

Dorothy Olsson (Renaissance Dance) is Director of the New York Historical Dance Company, and has performed and choreographed for Piffaro, Folger Consort, Parthenia and the Mannes Camerata. She wrote the chapter on dance in A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, published by G. Schirmer. She teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival and at New York University where she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies.

Chris Rua (Recorder, Program Director) performs a wide spectrum of music from Medieval to jazz, on instruments and voice. She has appeared with her own ensemble Jadis as well as with New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Piffaro, Ex Umbris, the Boston Renaissance Ensemble, the Boston Early Music Festival and Phoenix. She also performs with Promised Land through Young Audiences and records regularly with Revels, Inc. She teaches at numerous workshops throughout the Northeast as well as leading music/hiking workshops through the Sierra Club.

Carol Schlaikjer (Voice) was trained at the music conservatory in Cologne, Germany and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. She has performed with Sequentia and with other ensembles throughout Europe and Australia as a concert and recording artist. Carol appears on a total of 11 CDs on Sony, Harmonia Mundi (BMG) and Focus Labels. Carol returned about a year ago to live in America and recently opened a vocal performance workshop for high school students and adults in southeastern Massachusetts.

Jennifer Barron Southcott (Recorder) holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and New England Conservatory. She has taught at Pinewoods, at ARS workshops throughout the Northeast and currently teaches for Worcester Hills Recorder Society and for Boston Recorder Society West, as well as being Administrative Coordinator for the Senior Recorder Workshop hosted by Old Sturbridge Village. Jennifer composes for and is Artistic Director of Phoenix, performing Renaissance and contemporary consort music. She has recordings on CDSS and Playford Consort labels.

Ellen Tepper (Harp) began playing harp at the age of eight, and earned a degree in Harp Performance from the Phildelphia College of Performing Arts. Taking a historical approach, her repertoire spans the 13th to 18th centuries. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Historical Harp Society, performed with the Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band and conducted workshops in English country dance music for the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen.

Larry Wallach (Keyboard), a harpsichordist/pianist and composer, has been on staff at Pinewoods English-American and Early Music weeks, appears regularly at Fried Herman workshops, and performs for numerous 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 harpsichordist with the Berkshire Bach Society and in the chamber ensemble Italian Connection. He is a devotee of Charles Ives, ragtime and Morris dancing.

Larry Zukof (Recorder) is the Director of the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT. He sings countertenor with the Pro Arte Singers of CT and teaches at early music workshops in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. He has a MM from New England Conservatory in recorder and voice and is a past member of the Boston Camerata, a concerto soloist with flutist Paula Robison and the Boston Classical Orchestra, and has taught at Amherst Early Music.

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