Gary Ryan and Craig Ogden are hosting a four day guitar workshop in France from the 30th of July to the 4th of August.
The course runs for four full days with a strong emphasis placed on performance. It is intended for intermediate to advanced players.
You will receive expert advice from experienced concert performers on playing in public, interpretation, technical development and practice. There will also be regular sight-reading and opportunities for ensemble work.
All participants receive a one to one private lesson and regular chances to perform.
For further information or bookings please visit http://www.guitarfrance.com/
Bromley Guitar Meeting 19th January
My thanks to Denis for the following report:
After the interval, contributions came from Marion Davis, Len Ivell, Tom Rimmer, Trevor Pike, Jenny Wormald and Dave Hampton. Tom Rimmer and Richard Frenkel also played a couple of duets. This most welcome abundance of individual playing meant that the remaining session of ensemble music was confined to the final twenty minutes of the meeting.
However, taken together with the first half of the meeting, Ray Butcher did a sterling job and ensured that we all really enjoyed ourselves. There is no doubt that Ray has a flair for leading ensembles, and the banter that always ensues, ensures that none of the ensemble members ever feel conspicuous.
After the interval, contributions came from Marion Davis, Len Ivell, Tom Rimmer, Trevor Pike, Jenny Wormald and Dave Hampton. Tom Rimmer and Richard Frenkel also played a couple of duets. This most welcome abundance of individual playing meant that the remaining session of ensemble music was confined to the final twenty minutes of the meeting.
However, taken together with the first half of the meeting, Ray Butcher did a sterling job and ensured that we all really enjoyed ourselves. There is no doubt that Ray has a flair for leading ensembles, and the banter that always ensues, ensures that none of the ensemble members ever feel conspicuous.
News from the Lute Society
1 DANTE FERRARA CONCERT
Dante Ferrara will be giving lunchtimeconcert at Sheffield Cathedral on Tuesday 29th January, 1.15 to 2pm. He will be playing cittern, lute, orpharion, colascione and hurdy gurdy. Entry free,collection at end.
2. PANTAGRUEL TOUR
Mark Wheeler's combo, [soprano, recorders, lutes, etc] - see their website www.pantagruel.de have a new concert tour in England coming up:
TALK IN LONDON THIS THURSDAY
You are warmly welcomed to the next Institute of Musical Research seminar.
'Directions in Musical Research', Thursday 31 January 2008, 5 - 6.30 pm, Senate House, Malet St. (Room NG14).
Free of charge. Open to all. No booking necessary.
Nearest tubes: Euston Sq; Russell Sq; Goodge St.
Sara González-Castrejón (Répertoire Internationale d'Iconographie Musicale/IMR Visiting Research Fellow)
Musical Iconography, Law, and the Origins of Civilization in Early Modern Political Culture
Abstract
This paper will make a contribution to the study of musical iconography in relation to the history of political thought. I will depart from ancient Greek political texts, which describe music as a paradigm of the cosmos. String instruments are one of the most frequently used - but least studied - metaphors of power in early modern Western culture: the seven-string lyre in particular appears as an emblem of the harmony of the seven planets, being also an appropriate metaphor of the laws that rule the microcosm of the city-State. I will also draw on Biblical testimonies, which present King David as a zither- or harp player as well as a fair ruler, whereas in Revelation, chordophones refer to the Kingdom of God, to the New World, represented by the Celestial Jerusalem after the last victory over Satan and the Last Judgment. Both traditions converge in the fact that in the first centuries of the Christian era Jesus was often perceived and represented as the logos, the cosmic power of harmony, and authors like St Augustine establish a comparison between the ten-stringed psaltery mentioned in the Psalms and the Ten Commandments which will be transmitted through the medieval period.
My paper will analyze the impact of these sources in early modern identifications of law with music, from Jean Bodin's idea of harmonic justice in The Six Books on the Commonwealth (1575) to political emblems dedicated to the legendary characters Amphion and Orpheus (interpreted from the Christian point of view) and based on the magic power of music as a tool of civilization. I intend to locate the musical iconography of law in the wider panorama of the origins of the modern State, when ruling becomes an art, a techne, which the prince has to develop in order to create social harmony.
Prof. Katharine Ellis
Director, Institute of Musical ResearchSchool of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel/Voicemail: 020 7664 4866
http://www.music.sas.ac.uk
Offices now at Stewart House (32 Russell Square),
2nd floor, Room 2775.
GUITAR CONCERT
Jeff Rodriguez ( ex Portugal ) will be giving a recital Sat 9 Feb @ 7.30 pm at The Greenwood Centre, School Rd, Hampton Hill, Middx TW12 1QE.
Tickets £8/7
Programme Bach, Cabazon, Lopez Graca, Regondi, Ascencio etc.
Details 0208 891 6889 or website http://www.GreenwoodGS.org.uk
Dante Ferrara will be giving lunchtimeconcert at Sheffield Cathedral on Tuesday 29th January, 1.15 to 2pm. He will be playing cittern, lute, orpharion, colascione and hurdy gurdy. Entry free,collection at end.
2. PANTAGRUEL TOUR
Mark Wheeler's combo, [soprano, recorders, lutes, etc] - see their website www.pantagruel.de have a new concert tour in England coming up:
- Thursday 13/3/08, 7.30, Holywell Music Room Oxford, tc@fippleflute.co.uk
- Friday 14/3/08, 8.00, Colwall Village Hall, Mill Lane, Malvern Adrian@uktouring.org.uk
- Saturday 15/3/08, 7.30, The Studio @ TPS Cranford Road GU32 3LU, Petersfield tel: 01730 234641
- Sunday, 16/3/08, 3.00, The nave, 1 St Paul's Road, Islington, London N1 2QN boxoffice@thenave.org3.
TALK IN LONDON THIS THURSDAY
You are warmly welcomed to the next Institute of Musical Research seminar.
'Directions in Musical Research', Thursday 31 January 2008, 5 - 6.30 pm, Senate House, Malet St. (Room NG14).
Free of charge. Open to all. No booking necessary.
Nearest tubes: Euston Sq; Russell Sq; Goodge St.
Sara González-Castrejón (Répertoire Internationale d'Iconographie Musicale/IMR Visiting Research Fellow)
Musical Iconography, Law, and the Origins of Civilization in Early Modern Political Culture
Abstract
This paper will make a contribution to the study of musical iconography in relation to the history of political thought. I will depart from ancient Greek political texts, which describe music as a paradigm of the cosmos. String instruments are one of the most frequently used - but least studied - metaphors of power in early modern Western culture: the seven-string lyre in particular appears as an emblem of the harmony of the seven planets, being also an appropriate metaphor of the laws that rule the microcosm of the city-State. I will also draw on Biblical testimonies, which present King David as a zither- or harp player as well as a fair ruler, whereas in Revelation, chordophones refer to the Kingdom of God, to the New World, represented by the Celestial Jerusalem after the last victory over Satan and the Last Judgment. Both traditions converge in the fact that in the first centuries of the Christian era Jesus was often perceived and represented as the logos, the cosmic power of harmony, and authors like St Augustine establish a comparison between the ten-stringed psaltery mentioned in the Psalms and the Ten Commandments which will be transmitted through the medieval period.
My paper will analyze the impact of these sources in early modern identifications of law with music, from Jean Bodin's idea of harmonic justice in The Six Books on the Commonwealth (1575) to political emblems dedicated to the legendary characters Amphion and Orpheus (interpreted from the Christian point of view) and based on the magic power of music as a tool of civilization. I intend to locate the musical iconography of law in the wider panorama of the origins of the modern State, when ruling becomes an art, a techne, which the prince has to develop in order to create social harmony.
Prof. Katharine Ellis
Director, Institute of Musical ResearchSchool of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel/Voicemail: 020 7664 4866
http://www.music.sas.ac.uk
Offices now at Stewart House (32 Russell Square),
2nd floor, Room 2775.
GUITAR CONCERT
Jeff Rodriguez ( ex Portugal ) will be giving a recital Sat 9 Feb @ 7.30 pm at The Greenwood Centre, School Rd, Hampton Hill, Middx TW12 1QE.
Tickets £8/7
Programme Bach, Cabazon, Lopez Graca, Regondi, Ascencio etc.
Details 0208 891 6889 or website http://www.GreenwoodGS.org.uk
Concert Performance Pellegrina Ensemble
Its a slight departure from the realms of the guitar society business but the program described below is so delightful that it is worth sharing..
The lovely church of All Saints, Blackheath, one of the prettiest churches in London, will provide the idyllic setting for Pellegrina’s Valentine's Day Concert by Candlelight on Thursday 14 February,starting at 8.00 pm.
Featured will be Baroque music for lovers by Handel, Purcell and Scarlatti as well as sonatas by the aptly named Roberto Valentino.
Pellegrina
(Kyoko Murai – Soprano; Maria Sanger – recorder; Amanda Seaborn – viola da gamba and
Alison Bowler – harpsichord) will be joined by guest Peter Wells - recorder.
Tickets (£10.00) will be available at the door, but for preferential seat reservations, please phone the Pellegrina Ticket Line on 07864 093 042, or the Pellegrina office on 01276 45 33 96.
There is ample parking in the streets around All Saints Church, and Blackheath is well supplied with attractive resaurants for romantic pre-concert dining. The location of the church can be found by putting the postcode SE13 0TH into your preferred map website.
For more information please visit www.pellegrina.co.uk
The lovely church of All Saints, Blackheath, one of the prettiest churches in London, will provide the idyllic setting for Pellegrina’s Valentine's Day Concert by Candlelight on Thursday 14 February,starting at 8.00 pm.
Featured will be Baroque music for lovers by Handel, Purcell and Scarlatti as well as sonatas by the aptly named Roberto Valentino.
Pellegrina
(Kyoko Murai – Soprano; Maria Sanger – recorder; Amanda Seaborn – viola da gamba and
Alison Bowler – harpsichord) will be joined by guest Peter Wells - recorder.
Tickets (£10.00) will be available at the door, but for preferential seat reservations, please phone the Pellegrina Ticket Line on 07864 093 042, or the Pellegrina office on 01276 45 33 96.
There is ample parking in the streets around All Saints Church, and Blackheath is well supplied with attractive resaurants for romantic pre-concert dining. The location of the church can be found by putting the postcode SE13 0TH into your preferred map website.
For more information please visit www.pellegrina.co.uk
News from the Lute Society
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - PLAYING DAYS / RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND / 2009
April 19 - meeting will now take place at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the City of London, instead of the Art Workers Guild
April 26 - playing day, Gordon Gregory's house in Hackney
May 24 - playing day at Queen's College Cambridge.
August 9-17 David van Edwards' lute building summer school, Norwich
September 5 - 17 Residential weekend at Sneaton Castle, Whitby - go to www.sneatoncastle.co.uk for pictures of this magnificent Victorian-mediaeval pile.September 13, at the Art Workers Guild
November 22 at the Swedenborg Hall
CONCERT ON SUNDAY 20th JAN
CONCERTO!
A candlelit concert of virtuoso music for soloists & strings
Sunday, January 20th at 4pm, at All Saints ChurchAll Saints Drive, Blackheath, London SE3 0TH
Close to Blackheath rail station
Revital Raviv - Soprano
Sarig Sela - Recorders
Tal Arbel - Viola da Gamba
David Wright - HarpsichordWithThe Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Ben Sansom, Felicity Broome-Skelton - Baroque violins
Alexandria Lawrence - Baroque viola,
Kinga Gáborjáni - Baroque cello
Robert Rawson - Baroque double bass
Jorgen Skogmo - Theorbo
In the programme:J.S. Bach - Orchestral suite #2, Marin Marais - Pieces de Viole, G.F. Handel - arias from Giulio Cesare, Semele & Judas Maccabaeus,J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto #5, G. P. Telemann - Concerto for recorder & viola da gamba
Tickets on the door: £10, £8 concession.Tickets booked in advance: £8, £5 concession.
Book at: talarbel123@gmail.com
OFFER OF LUTE LESSONS, EAST ANGLIA
After keeping a very low lute profile for the past 20 or more years, Peter Trent is currently in a position to increase his small number of lute pupils in East Anglia. If anyone would be interested in Renaissance Lute lessons between the hours of 8am in North Norfolk and 7pm in Ipswich every Monday and if I can fit it into a sensible itinerary, please get in touch by telephone 01328 829455 or mailto:peter.trent@btinternet.com
Thanks to Peter from the Lute Society for this inforamtion update
April 19 - meeting will now take place at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the City of London, instead of the Art Workers Guild
April 26 - playing day, Gordon Gregory's house in Hackney
May 24 - playing day at Queen's College Cambridge.
August 9-17 David van Edwards' lute building summer school, Norwich
September 5 - 17 Residential weekend at Sneaton Castle, Whitby - go to www.sneatoncastle.co.uk for pictures of this magnificent Victorian-mediaeval pile.September 13, at the Art Workers Guild
November 22 at the Swedenborg Hall
CONCERT ON SUNDAY 20th JAN
CONCERTO!
A candlelit concert of virtuoso music for soloists & strings
Sunday, January 20th at 4pm, at All Saints ChurchAll Saints Drive, Blackheath, London SE3 0TH
Close to Blackheath rail station
Revital Raviv - Soprano
Sarig Sela - Recorders
Tal Arbel - Viola da Gamba
David Wright - HarpsichordWithThe Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Ben Sansom, Felicity Broome-Skelton - Baroque violins
Alexandria Lawrence - Baroque viola,
Kinga Gáborjáni - Baroque cello
Robert Rawson - Baroque double bass
Jorgen Skogmo - Theorbo
In the programme:J.S. Bach - Orchestral suite #2, Marin Marais - Pieces de Viole, G.F. Handel - arias from Giulio Cesare, Semele & Judas Maccabaeus,J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto #5, G. P. Telemann - Concerto for recorder & viola da gamba
Tickets on the door: £10, £8 concession.Tickets booked in advance: £8, £5 concession.
Book at: talarbel123@gmail.com
OFFER OF LUTE LESSONS, EAST ANGLIA
After keeping a very low lute profile for the past 20 or more years, Peter Trent is currently in a position to increase his small number of lute pupils in East Anglia. If anyone would be interested in Renaissance Lute lessons between the hours of 8am in North Norfolk and 7pm in Ipswich every Monday and if I can fit it into a sensible itinerary, please get in touch by telephone 01328 829455 or mailto:peter.trent@btinternet.com
Thanks to Peter from the Lute Society for this inforamtion update
Guitar for Sale
From Peter Dickinson
'Ramirez 1 e Guitar for sale. The guitar is 1985 and in absolute mint condition, no marks or scratches. Best hard case that I have ever seen. I have had the guitar for 12 years now, very rarely played and when it is played I use fleece. If anyone is interested please email me at PeterDickinson@odessaoffset.co.uk
Price: £800
I live in the Chislehurst area'
'Ramirez 1 e Guitar for sale. The guitar is 1985 and in absolute mint condition, no marks or scratches. Best hard case that I have ever seen. I have had the guitar for 12 years now, very rarely played and when it is played I use fleece. If anyone is interested please email me at PeterDickinson@odessaoffset.co.uk
Price: £800
I live in the Chislehurst area'