Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 17 - 24, 2004

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 17 - 24, 2004 Program Director: Gene Murrow Staff: Peter Barnes Sheila Beardslee Janet Haas Shira Kammen Joan Kimball Judith Linsenberg Larry Lipkis * Lawrence Lipnik Sarah Mead Dorothy Olsson Mark Rimple Sam Rotenberg Chris Rua Cynthia Shaw Ellen Tepper Tricia van Oers Robert Wiemken *Advisor, plus: Brad Foster Steve Howe Phoebe Larkey Peggy Vermilya

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Look up our Adult Programs for some general information; here is more detail about this particular program and staff.

Inspire the artist within you! Journey to "Mt. Helicon at Pinewoods" and join Euterpe (the muse of music and song), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (poetry and eloquence) and Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry) for a glorious week celebrating "Myth and Muse." Early Music Week 2004 continues the long-standing traditions that distinguish our program: an experienced, supportive faculty dedicated to the highest standards of teaching that promote student achievement and self-confidence, a wide variety of classes exploring the gems of the literature related to our "a-muse-ing" theme and a host of special events.

Our usual array of technique classes start each day: recorder (including master class with clinician Judy Linsenberg), viol, harp and voice; Medieval ensemble with Shira Kammen; Renaissance ensemble with Mark Rimple; and Baroque instrumental ensembles (including flutes and continuo instruments) for as many as will under the leadership of our distinguished coaches.

This year we welcome dance leader Sam Rotenberg to our faculty. Sam will teach the advanced English country dance class and will offer a new class on Colonial American dance (including the minuet) drawing on his long experience leading a Colonial dance demonstration ensemble. Gene Murrow and Sheila Beardslee teach the intermediate and beginning country dance classes, joined by Dorrie Olsson with her usual lively historical dance class.

Afternoon classes include perennial and new favorites: beginning classes in harp, viol and bagpipes; country dance band with Peter Barnes; loud band for shawms, sackbuts and cornetti; recorder ensembles; buzzie band (krummhorns and their ilk); and a variety of mixed ensembles with instruments and voices. An Olympic-scale theater event will once again be a collaboration of Cynthia Shaw's dramatic players (aided by Euterpe, Clio and Erato), Dorrie's Terpsichoreans and Larry Lipkis' theater band. The Pinewoods Philharmonia returns under the direction of Sheila Beardslee.

Nightly dance parties (including an evening featuring camper callers and dance band), plus madrigal sings, pick-up consort playing, lecture/presentations, skits, the hilarious yet purposeful fund-raising auction, a final banquet with gala entertainments, and the usual unexpected surprise events will complement the program and enhance the wonderful sense of community that is the hallmark of Early Music Week at Pinewoods.

Early Music Week at Pinewoods Daily Schedule
7:00 - 7:30	Exercises
7:45 - 8:15	Breakfast
8:30 - 8:50	Morning warm-ups for all
9:00 - 10:30	First morning class
11:00 - 12:00	Dance classes
12:00 - 12:30	Break, swimming, etc
12:30	Lunch served family 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 - 10:45	Special Events

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Peter Barnes (Keyboard) has been playing piano, flute, whistle, guitar and assorted other instruments for dancers and listeners for many years, and has been invited to most major contra, square, English and Irish dance events throughout the U.S., performing for dances and concerts, leading ensemble workshops and generally acting in a crazy and often undignified manner. He is one of Boston's busiest musicians, and has played for festivals and tours from Budapest to Hawaii. He currently divides his time among bands Bare Necessities, The Latter-Day Lizards, singer Cathie Ryan and Sez You!, the NPR radio show. He has also published three music books and appears on over 50 recordings.

Sheila Beardslee (Recorder, English Country Dance) has taught recorder, historical flutes, viol and period dance at Pinewoods, Amherst, LIRF and for early music societies from Maine to Florida and a good many places in between. Director of Recorders/Early Music Metrowest and Concordia Consort and a member of the Phillips Consort of Viols, she teaches privately and at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School where recorder has taken the school by storm! She has led seven performance/study tours to Italy and has recorded for the Viola da Gamba Society-New England, Amherst Early Music and Northeastern.

Janet Haas (Viols) performs regularly on viola da gamba and violone throughout New England. She studied gamba with Laura Jeppesen and John Hsu, and has performed with La Sonnerie, the viol trio Oriana and the Folger Consort. She has recorded with the Boston Camerata on the Erato label, teaches strings and conducts three orchestras for the Lexington, MA public schools, and has taught at the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave, the Mideast Workshop and numerous regional workshops.

Shira Kammen (Violin, Vielle) received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco and Japan and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for 15 years and performs now with several new groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a new music group, Ephemeros; an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea; and Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany.

Joan Kimball (Bagpipes) is co-director of Piffaro, which presents concerts in Philadelphia, tours throughout the U.S. and Europe, and has numerous CDs out on the Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv and Dorian labels. In addition to her playing of early wind instruments -- recorders, shawms, bagpipes -- she also makes reeds for historical woodwinds and collaborates with instrument builder Joel Robinson on making Renaissance bagpipes. Joan teaches recorder at The Philadelphia School, where she has a dozen or more students age 6 to 16, some of whom are venturing into Renaissance bagpipes, krummhorns and shawms. She also teaches at early music workshops throughout the U.S.

Judith Linsenberg (Recorder) is recognized as one of the leading exponents of the recorder in the U.S. Founder and director of the acclaimed Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica, she has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe, including solo appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with such leading ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the SF Opera Center, Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, the Los Angeles Opera and the LA, Portland and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, A Fulbright scholar to Austria, she was awarded the Soloist Diploma with Highest Honors from the Vienna Academy of Music. She has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University's Early Music Institute in Bloomington and has taught at Stanford, the SF Conservatory and early music workshops throughout the U.S.

Larry Lipkis (Viol) performs and records with the Baltimore Consort and directs early music activities at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he serves as Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence. He has written several works based on the characters of the Commedia dell'arte: his bass trombone concerto, Harlequin, was premiered in 1997 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his bassoon concerto, Pierrot, was premiered in 2002 by the Houston Symphony. Larry is also a music director of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

Lawrence Lipnik (Viol, Recorder) performs with many ensembles including Anonymous 4, the Waverly Consort, ARTEK, and the New York Consort of Viols. He is a founding member of both the highly acclaimed male vocal ensemble Lionheart and the viol consort Parthenia, and is a frequent collaborator with video artist William Wegman. His busy teaching schedule has included numerous national and international workshops including the Benslow Music Trust in Hitchin, UK, Mount Gravatt College residency in Brisbane, Australia, Amherst Early Music, as well as co-organizing the first early music workshop at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Currently he teaches the viol and recorder ensembles at Wesleyan University. Mr. Lipnik has recently prepared an authoritative edition of Francesco Cavalli's opera La Calisto, which was commissioned by the Juilliard School and performed by the San Francisco Opera. He has recorded for numerous labels including EMI, Angel, Nimbus, Virgin, Sony, Koch International, and has served as music consultant for the Bill Cosby Show.

Sarah Mead (Viol) holds degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brandeis University for 20 years, where she holds an appointment as Artist-in-Residence; in this role she directs the Brandeis Early Music Ensemble and serves as a guest choral conductor. A frequent freelancer in the Boston area, she has performed with Emmanuel Music, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Viol Consortium and Brewster Village Consort. She is the author of Plain and Easy: A Practical Guide to Renaissance Theory and the chapter on 16th-century theory in A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, published by G. Schirmer. A frequent teacher at local and national early music workshops, she is also a past Program Director for Early Music Week. She has directed early music ensembles at Tufts and Northeastern Universities and was a guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.

Gene Murrow (Program Director, English Dance, Recorder) is currently the General Manager of the Early Music Foundation in New York. He has been teaching English dance for over 20 years in the U.S. and Europe; this summer he will represent the U.S. at the 50th anniversary of the Sidmouth International Folk Festival in England. He has coached recorder ensembles at Pinewoods, Amherst Early Music and many other workshops around the country for over 30 years. Gene is a member of the CDSS Governing Board and was President of the American Recorder Society from 1994-2000.

Dorothy Olsson (Renaissance Dance, Recorder) is Director of the New York Historical Dance Company, and has performed and choreographed for many early music ensembles including Piffaro, Folger Consort, Parthenia, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony and the Mannes Camerata. She has given numerous workshops in historical dance and her article on 17th-century dance appears in A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, published by G. Schirmer. Dorothy teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival where she has choreographed for and/or directed several historical theatrical productions. Originally a bassoonist, she studied recorder with Shelley Gruskin, and has her Masters in Musicology from Manhattan School of Music. For ten years she was an Assistant Professor in Dance Education at New York University, where she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies. With her German dance partner Kaspar Mainz, she has co-written four books on historical dance. She is also a budding web designer, recently creating her dance company's website.

Mark Rimple (Lute, Voice) is active in the Philadelphia and New York areas as a countertenor, lutenist and composer. Along with Drew Minter and Marcia Young, he is a founding member of Trefoil, a New York-based vocal-instrumental trio devoted to the performance of 14th-century music. He has appeared as a countertenor and lutenist with The Newberry Consort, The Folger Consort, Ex Umbris, Piffaro, Voice of Orpheus, The New York Collegium, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Brandywine Baroque and The Philadelphia Classical Symphony. He is also a composer whose works have been performed by Parnassus and Network for New Music, and often include countertenor, lute and Renaissance instruments. Recently his Portrait of a Dying Empire for soprano saxophone and harpsichord was given its New York premiere by Marshall Taylor and Joyce Lindorff in the International Stephan Wolpe Festival at Symphony Space. He is a specialist in the theory and notation of medieval through baroque music and has taught these subjects in workshops at Amherst Early Music, the Madison Early Music Festival and the Early Music Program at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. He holds a DMA in composition from Temple University, and is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University.

Sam Rotenberg (English and Colonial Dance) has been teaching and leading English country dancing and contra dances for more than 20 years. He is a regular leader for the Germantown Country Dancers and co-leads their Early American performance group, The Colonial Assembly. He has danced all his life, doing International, vintage, Scottish, Polish, English, contra, early American and couple dancing; his teaching trademark is brevity with clarity. Sam loves teaching style and mentoring dancers and dance leaders. His wife, Sandy, who will assist him with the Colonial dance session, also dances with GCD and the Colonial Assembly.

Chris Rua (Recorder) is a versatile musician who has performed a wide spectrum of music, from Medieval to jazz, on instruments and voice. She has performed in the U.S. and abroad with her own ensemble Jadis as well as with New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Ex Umbris, Piffaro, The City of Ladies and Voice of the Turtle. In the Boston area, where she resides, she has performed with Emmanuel Music, the SoHIP Concert Series, the Boston Early Music Festival and with Revels Inc. Through Young Audiences, Chris performs throughout New England with her ensemble Promised Land presenting programs on immigration and family history. She has been on staff at Christmas Week at Berea College, KY, at English and American Week at both Buffalo Gap and Pinewoods, and at Early Music Week, where she was the director from 1998-2000. In her spare time, Chris teaches music at the Charles River School in Dover, MA and has the good fortune to lead summer workshops in the Sierras.

Cynthia Shaw, (Theater, Voice) musical director for the New York Christmas Revels since 1995, has appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion at NYC's Town Hall and on NPR. As an accompanist she performs with singers in NYC and is a regular pianist for Country Dance*New York's contra and English dance sessions, being featured in this year's Playford Ball. As a professional soprano, she is an original member of The Douglas Frank Chorale whose premiere recording, The A Cappella Singer, was named "Best Classical Album of 2001" by the Contemporary A Capella Society and was recently a soloist for the American Festival of Microtonal Music concert singing works of Andreas Werckmeister. She sings at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra and is the Upper School Chorus teacher at the Brooklyn Friends School. Personal Webpage

Ellen Tepper (Harp) began to play the harp, dance and sew at age eight in Vienna, Austria. A childhood spent being dragged through every available ruin resulted in a passion for early music, embroidery, dance and a backyard that looks like ancient rubble. She teaches early, modern and folk harp in the Philadelphia area, serves on the board of the Historical Harp Society and plays in the English dance bands E.T. and the Aliens, Sutton Who? and Quidditas. She has taught workshops on dance music for the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen, presented lectures for the American Harp Society and released several CDs.

Tricia van Oers (Recorder) graduated with high honors in 1998 from the Conservatory of her native city Rotterdam with a Teachers and Performers Degree. She did graduate work at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she received a Performer Diploma with high achievement in Early Music Performance. Tricia has performed with Early Music New York, Long Island Baroque Ensemble, Concert Royal (NYC), the Saratoga Chamber Singers, the Vernon Chorale, the Cantata Singers (Boston) and in solo and ensemble recitals in Europe. As a founding member of the Rotterdam-based ensemble Scarabee she recorded at the Great Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles (France). She teaches at workshops and summer classes across the U.S., and is a founding member of the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio and the baroque ensemble Sympatica.

Robert Wiemken, (Renaissance Winds) a French hornist for many years before turning to early music and period instrument performance, is now a multi-instrumentalist, focusing on the double reed instruments of the Medieval through the Baroque periods, most notably the Renaissance and early Baroque dulcian, or curtal and the Baroque bassoon. He is currently co-director of Piffaro and also directs the early music ensembles at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia. He has performed with numerous ensembles, including New York's Ensemble for Early Music, the Grande Band, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Brandywine Baroque Orchestra, the Folger Consort, the Kings Noyse and others. He has recorded on the Newport Classics, Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion, Dorian Records, Vanguard Classics, Windham Hill and Pasacaille labels. He is also a noted reed maker, specializing in the double reeds of the Medieval through Baroque periods.

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FIRST MORNING CLASS: 9:00-10:30
In the morning there are technique and repertory building classes for instrumental and vocal consorts at all levels. There are classes in

Beginning Renaissance Dance with Dorothy Olsson teaching the basic figures and dances from the standard repertory

FIRST AFTERNOON CLASS: 2:00-3:15

Class	Level	Instrument	Teacher
Beginning Harp	B/LI	harps	Tepper
Beginning Viol	B	viols	Haas
Beginning Bagpipes	B	bagpipes	Kimball
Goddesses: Medieval songs, Renaissance madrigals, "modern misses"	HI	mixed ensemble	Rua
Classical Musings: Madrigals and part songs about mythical characters	I/HI	voices & viols	Mead
Teares of the Muses: Holborne, et. al.	I/HI	recorders	Murrow
Theory & Improvisation for the Disinclined: a practical and amusing introduction to how music works and why theory is useful	I to A	instruments	Barnes
Renaissance ensemble: viol consorts, plus	HI/A	viols	Lipnik
Baroque ensemble: trio sonatas, plus	HI/A	as in morning	Linsenberg
Loud Band: music for cornettos, sackbuts and shawms	HI/A	reeds, brass	Wiemken
Music of Imitation: Med., Ren., and Bar. Rounds, caccias	LI-HI	mixed ensemble	Kammen
Mostly Minuets: the minuet and other early American steps	all	dancers	Rotenberg
Time Out -- choose to audit and observe, or take a practice break

SECOND AFTERNOON CLASS: 3:30-4:45

Class	Level	Instrument	Teacher
Historical dance*: Renaissance dance from the European court	all	dancers	Olsson
Theater Music*	I-A	mixed inst and voices	Lipkis
Theatre*: help bring the "myths of Pinewoods" alive	all	any	Shaw
* These classes participate in the theatrical performance on Friday afternoon before the banquet
Chorus: choruses from Baroque operas, plus	all	voices	Rimple
Recorder Orchestra: Baroque opera orch. parts, plus	LI-A	recorders	Beardslee
String Orchestra: Baroque opera orch. parts, plus	LI-A	strings	Mead
Krummhorn Ensemble: all that buzz!	LI-A	krummhorns	Kimball
English Country Dance Band: techniques to accompany dancers	LI-A	instruments	Barnes
Time Out -- choose to audit and observe, or take a practice break

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