Country Dance and Song Society Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 14 - 21, 2007

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Early Music Week at Pinewoods July 14 - 21, 2007 Program Director: Sarah Mead Staff: Sheila Beardslee Deborah Booth Michael Cicone Helene Cornelius Pamela Dellal Jolle Greenleaf Wayne Hankin Hank Heijink Greg Ingles Shira Kammen Roxanne Layton Larry Lipkis * Margaret Ann Martin Emily O'Brien Margaret Panofsky Christa Patton Bill Peek Roy Sansom * Advisor, plus: Steve Howe

Program Description: [Back to Top]

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

The Four Humours and their associated elements -- Earth, Air, Fire and Water -- were at the core of scientific thinking throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The elements formed the basis of medicine, astronomy and alchemy, while the humours helped explain social interactions. Music, poetry and art all mirrored this four-faceted view of the cosmos. Earth, Air, Fire and Water are all part of the Pinewoods experience as well: the soft forest floor, the fresh breezes, the warm sun and, of course, the ponds, just waiting for a between-class dip!

This summer, explore music and dance inspired by the Four Humours (from melancholic to sanguine) and the Four Elements (earthy, ethereal, burning or mellifluous) and some musical humor as well.

Early Music Week provides musical challenges for players and singers at every level, from the highly experienced to those who are just getting their feet wet.

*	If you've never played a musical instrument (but wish you could) or if you studied music years ago (and fear you've forgotten everything), there are classes to get you started or to help brush off the rust. Introductory classes are offered in recorder, harp and viol.
*	Singers of all abilities will benefit from singing class, chorus and mixed ensembles with instruments.
*	Dancers and dance teachers can learn an instrument and participate in the daily dance classes and the nightly dance parties.

Advanced and intermediate players and singers have a wide range of classes to choose from and a group of skilled musicians to teach them. Our staff is made up of active professionals and acclaimed teachers of early winds (recorders, reeds and brass), strings (viols, violin, harp and lute), harpsichord and voice. Dancers will also find a wealth of activity, including high-level technique classes, challenging ensembles and historical dance.

This summer we welcome to the staff lutenist Hank Heijink and mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, who adds her expertise in medieval music to the vocal faculty. Early Music Week at Pinewoods has a long tradition of skilled teaching in a supportive community, enhanced by special events, presentations, concerts and -- of course -- dancing. Advanced musicians can work intensively, amateurs are challenged and engaged and beginners are always made to feel welcome.

Please join us! -- Sarah Mead, Program Director

Scholarships are also offered by Early Music America and the American Recorder Society. Deadline for both is April 15, 2007.

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
2:00 - 3:15	First afternoon class
3:30 - 4:45	Second afternoon class
5:00 - 5:30	Teatime
5:30 - 6:30	Open reading sessions Faculty rehearsals Free time
6:30	Dinner
7:45	Mini-lectures
8:15	Community Dance Party
9:45 - 10:45	Special events

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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 eight performance/study tours to Italy and has recorded for the Viola da Gamba Society-New England, Amherst Early Music and Northeastern.

Deborah Booth (recorder) is a recorder and flute player based in New York City. She received her training in flute performance at Cincinnati Conservatory and the University of Kentucky. Her teachers have included Marion Verbruggen, Sandra Miller and Thomas Nyfenger. She has played in the Louisville Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony and has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society, the Orchestra of St. Lukes', the Ciompi Quartet, Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, Bach Vespers Period Ensemble, The Ivory Consort, Christmas Revels, The Big Apple Baroque Band, Boston Early Music Festival, and BREVE. Recently she has recorded with the American Boy Choir and made a soundtrack for the television show Blues Clues. She teaches at Greenwich Academy, directs the Princeton Recorder Academy and is a regular teacher at the Amherst Early Music Festival. In September of 2003 the Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) appointed Ms. Booth as their conductor.

Michael Cicone (English country dance) first learned traditional English country, morris and court dance in 1980 as a performer in the green show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, where he worked with Carl Wittman. He has been leading English country dance ever since, teaching at regular dances and camps in Boston and western Massachusetts, Albany, Hartford and Philadelphia, as well as Early Music and English & American Weeks at Pinewoods, Heather and Rose weekends in Sisters, OR and dance weekends in Seattle and Monte Toyen, CA. Michael also regularly performs as a musician and choreographer for Christmas Revels productions in Hanover, NH and Boston, MA. He sings and plays hammered dulcimer with the popular folk trio Kallet, Epstein and Cicone, performs world folk and original music in an instrumental duo with Susan Robbins and over the years has sung early American and European music in various ensembles.

Helene Cornelius (English country dance) has been leading English country dancing since 1963. This week her large repertoire of dances, concise teaching style and long experience calling for the Boston English dance community will be in evidence when she calls some of the evening dances and teaches one of the morning dance classes.

Pamela Dellal, (voice) mezzo-soprano, is a sought-after oratorio and concert soloist who has performed with renowned ensembles in Boston and throughout the world. She has also been featured in leading roles in operas of Purcell, Mozart, Britten and others. With Sequentia, Ms. Dellal has recorded the music of Hildegard von Bingen and toured the U.S., Europe and Australia. She appears frequently with Musicians of the Old Post Road, Ensemble Chaconne and is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music. Her broad repertoire includes early chamber music, concert works and contemporary pieces. She currently serves on the faculty of the Berkshire Choral Festival and The Boston Conservatory of Music and is a voice instructor at Brandeis University.

Jolle Greenleaf, (voice) soprano, has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad with many ensembles including Apollo's Fire, Aspro Dolce, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Folger Consort, NYS Baroque and New York Collegium. After completing her Masters degree in early music from the Mannes College of Music, she received a fellowship to study at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. She has appeared as soloist in major works such as Handel's Messiah, J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Christmas and Easter Oratorios and St. John Passion, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Purcell's Fairy Queen and in over 80 Bach cantata and motet performances in New York City and beyond. She is a member of the one-voice-to-a-part vocal ensemble The Tiffany Consort, whose first CD O Magnum Mysterium was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award. Jolle is a member of the music staff at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, giving private voice lessons to the boys of the choir.

Wayne Hankin, (winds) specialist in ancient winds, has performed for Cirque du Soleil, Center Stage, Alley Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, American Repertory Theater and on Broadway. He's made music with most of the major early music groups in the world. His numerous television credits include CBS Sunday Morning, The Tonight Show, Regis & Kathee Lee, Monday Night Football, HBO's Showtime and ABC News Niteline, and has recorded with popular stars from They Might Be Giants to Jewell. Recent television credits include Nickelodeon's Miss Spider, and recent movie credits include Disney's The Princess, Belle and Anastasia. Numerous recording credits include works for RCA, ECM and Sony. Wayne teaches the world over and is recipient of several awards including the Noah Greenberg Award, ASCAP Standards Awards, besonder Verdienst award of Austria, Meet the Composer Grants and the ASCAP Plus Awards six years in a row for composition.

Hank Heijink (lute) studied lute and theorbo at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands. During his studies, he became the first theorbo player to play with the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He has played under the direction of Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin and Fabio Biondi, and has participated in many of the major early music festivals in Europe and Japan. He has toured Europe with many leading ensembles including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the Netherlands Bach Society. He made his U.S. debut in Carnegie's Zankel Hall last year in a performance of three Bach cantatas directed by Ton Koopman and played in New York's St. Thomas Church with Concert Royal directed by John Scott in two more programs of Bach's sacred music. This season he will tour Europe with the Wooster Group, performing Cavalli's La Didone.

Greg Ingles (sackbut, wind band) is in demand as a free-lance sackbut player performing with such period instrument ensembles as the New York Collegium, Tafelmusik, Concerto Palatino, Early Music New York, the Orchestra of the Renaissance and the American Bach Soloists. He is Music Director of Spiritus Collective, an ensemble devoted to rarely performed brass music of the 17th century. Greg is also a member of the early wind band, Ciaramella, with whom he recorded their debut CD on the Naxos label. Greg recently recorded music by Bertali with Chatham Baroque on the Sono Luminus label. As a member of Piffaro: The Renaissance Band, he performs throughout the U.S. and Europe and has recorded on the Dorian early music label. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Greg is currently a doctoral candidate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is professor of trombone at Hofstra University.

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. Personal Webpage

Roxanne Layton (recorder) is known as an ambassador of the recorder because of her ability to play the instrument in so many styles of music. She started playing the recorder at age 6 because her father wanted her to have a portable instrument to take along on the boat he was building to go around the world. She has played on many albums with Mannheim Steamroller, Zoe Lewis, Steve Anderson and others. She graduated from New England Conservatory in Boston and has played with the New Orleans Philharmonic, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Utah Opera, New World Symphony, Boston Opera Company, Handel and Haydn Society under Christopher Hogwood, emmanuel Music's famous Bach Cantata Series, Ottawa Folk Festival, and many more.

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. Personal Webpage

Margaret Ann Martin (keyboard) cut her country-dancing and -playing teeth at Berea Christmas Country Dance School in Kentucky. She has played accordion and/or piano for English and traditional country dances, square dances, contra dances and morris. She teaches piano at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT; she plays for English country dances in New Haven and occasionally in Amherst, MA, Westchester Country Dance and New York Country Dance. Recordings include Purcell English Country Dance Tunes, with the Playford Consort, Measured Obsession with MGM, Gary Roodman's Old Friends, New Friends and soon-to- be-released Band of Friends. Other performance venues are duo-piano recitals and early music programs in which she sings and plays harpsichord.

Sarah Mead (Program Director, viol) holds degrees in music from Yale and Stanford. This year she celebrated her 25th year directing the Early Music Ensemble at Brandeis, where she has also served 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 a contributor to Schirmer's Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music. She also edits the Ask your Viol Teacher column for the VdGSA newsletter and is a regular teacher at their annual conclave. She has taught early music ensembles at Tufts and Northeastern Universities as well as at Trinity College of Music in London and is a regular guest lecturer at Longy School of Music. She was Program Director at Early Music Week from 1995-97, returning to that position last summer.

Emily O'Brien (recorder, Early Music Shop) is a graduate of Boston University, where she studied recorder and French horn. She has performed in many venues in the Boston area, currently serves on the executive board of the Boston Recorder Society (whose concert series she has also performed for) and has coached meetings of the BRS as well as the Worcester Hills Recorder Society and Recorders / Early Music MetroWest. In her spare time, she enjoys bicycle racing and long distance riding.

Margaret Panofsky (viols) is a well-known teacher and has been a director and faculty member for numerous early music workshops throughout the U.S. She is the founder of the trio, The Teares of the Muses and is a member (continuo and solo viol) of the esteemed Choir of Corpus Christi Church. She has made guest appearances with many ensembles, including the New York Consort of Viols, le Triomphe de l'Amour, Ensemble Soleil and Parthenia. She directs the New York University Collegium Viol Consort, a proficient undergraduate and graduate student performing group and is a member of NYU's professional baroque ensemble, Les Zephires. Her comprehensive book, Bass Viol Technique, has been used worldwide since its publication in 1991. She has recorded on the Titanic and Desmar labels.

Christa Patton (harp) has performed medieval and Renaissance music throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan with Early Music New York, Piffaro and Ex Umbris. As a baroque harpist, Christa has performed with Tafelmusik, Toronto Consort, Early Music New York, ARTEK, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir, Wolf Trap Opera Company and the New York City Opera. As a clinician Christa has been the harp instructor at the Madison Early Music Festival since 2001. A Fulbright scholar in 1999, she studied historical harp techniques in Milan with harpist Mara Galassi. Christa has recorded for the Lyrichord, Helicon and Dorian labels.

Bill Peek (dance band, musicianship) is the Music Director and Organist at the historic First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, New York. He also teaches at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, NY, where he directs the choral music program, teaches music theory and coaches chamber and jazz ensembles. He has been playing music for English country dancing for many years and can be heard on several recordings.

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 Brandenberg concerti. He has also performed with the Boston Pops, the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, the New York City Opera Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Orchestra, the Greenwood Consort and with Second Wind with Roxanne Layton, performing music for two recorders (sometimes three or four) from many centuries as well as their own compositions and improvisations. In addition, he now works at the von Huene Early Music Shop testing and making recorders and teaches at Merrimack College and Brandeis University.

Class Descriptions: [Back to Top]

The first session of the day is devoted to technique and repertoire in unmixed consorts grouped by level for recorder, strings, voice, lute and harp. Advanced players may opt to sign up for Baroque ensembles in this period.

Late morning is for dancing: a class in basic English country dancing prepares newcomers for the evening dances, while those with more experience can choose to work on style and repertoire in intermediate or advanced classes.

Early afternoon classes offer a variety of options, exploring repertoires and topics of special interest to our faculty related to the theme of "Musical Humours." This period also includes classes in medieval music, flute ensemble, and beginning viol for those interested in stretching their horizons.

Late afternoon classes include several large ensembles, providing the opportunity to experience the rich textures of massed voices and instruments. Classes in string technique, advanced recorder consort, and dance band round out the choices.

Nightly dances (including an evening featuring camper callers and dance band) bring campers, staff and crew together on the dance floor. Evening madrigal sings, concerts and presentations, skit night, auction night and the final gala banquet all complement the program, as do the many opportunities for informal playing. Early Music Week at Pinewoods is a unique workshop that has become a regular destination for generations of early musicians and continues to be a delightful discovery for newcomers.

FIRST MORNING CLASS: 9:00-10:30 Technique and repertory-building for instrumental and vocal consorts (all levels).

Advanced ECD with Helene Cornelius for the most experienced dancers.

FIRST AFTERNOON CLASS: 2:00-3:15 Earth, Wind, Fire and Water: The Humours of Music in a variety of ensembles.

Class	Level	Instrument	Teacher
Elementary Viol: viol for beginners (loaner instruments available)	(n/a)	open to all	Panofsky
Braving the Elements: chill out with hot music for cool consorts	LI-I	viols & recorders	Mead
Blowing in the Wind: music from all corners of the world	LI-HI	recorders	Layton
Good Humor, Bad Humor: musical jokes – wit, puns, and poor taste	I-HI	recorders	O'Brien
Voices in the Wind: meaning & articulation in texted music	HI-A	recorders	Sansom
Spirits of the Air: Renaissance flute consort	I-A	flutes	Booth
Con Humore: Italian frottole for harps, lutes, and voice	LI-HI	plucks & solo singers	Patton
A la Mode: exploring the many moods of the medieval modes	I-HI	strings & voices	Kammen/Dellal
Phlegm-ish Masters: music of Josquin, Isaac and their contemporaries	LI-HI	instruments & voices	Lipkis
L'Humore Musicale: Vecchi's madrigals on the "humours"	I-HI	instruments & voices	Hankin
O for a Muse of Fire: music from Shakespeare's plays	HI-A	instruments & voices	Greenleaf
Earthly Humors: improvisation and the Renaissance dance band	I-HI	instruments	Heijink
Down to Earth: a study of the Ground – music on a repeating bass	HI-A	instruments & keyboard	Ingles

SECOND AFTERNOON CLASS: 3:30-4:45 Large and small ensembles to round out your day.

Class	Ensemble Type	Teacher
Ethereal Melodies: sacred sounds of the Renaissance in four sacraments	Chorus	Greenleaf
Earth, Wind & Fire: playing for English country dance – all instruments	Dance Band	Martin
Mirth, Winds & Choirs: polychoral music for reeds and brass	Loud Band	Patton/Ingles
Elements of Style: teaching your bow to be airy, fluid, fiery, earthy	Viol Technique	Panofsky
Fireworks & Watermusic: big works, big ensembles (big recorders)	Recorder Orchestra	Booth
Fyre, Fyre! hot licks for recorder consort, from madrigals to fantasias	Adv. Recorder Consort	Beardslee

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