Guitar Concerts for September

From the Classical Guitar News Web Site

September Concerts

10th Jadran Duncumb, BBC Young Musician of the Year, Wigmore Hall, 1pm, £8

12th-Milos Karadaglic, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 1pm

20th Jérémy Jouve, 2003 winner of the First Prize of the prestigious International Guitar Competition at West Sussex Guitar Club, Bognor Regis, Admission: £12, (£8 members), full-time students half price, under 16 free. To reserve tickets, ring 01243 822965.

20th 8 Fabio Zanon Concert The Point, Southampton Classical Guitar Society, Eastleigh, 8pm. Box office 023 8065 2333 or book online here. Tickets: £12 (Concessions £10); Tickets also available from Wayne Lines on 01329 310792. Members (via SCGS only) £8.

27th-Jonathan Richards, Hamstall Ridware, Staffs, tel 01889 504 294

30th-Jonathan Richards, St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, 1.10pm, 0207 427 0133

30th Eleftheria Kotzia, Hull City Hall, Hull

More News from the Lute Society!!

They are a pretty busy bunch at the Lute Society judging from the latest news below


The September 13th meeting of The Lute Society will be held at The Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA, which is near Bank underground station and Liverpool Street Station - in the heart of the City of London and easy to get through on public transport. The website is http://www.dutchchurch.org.uk/ and a map showing the location was printed in the last issue of Lute News..

There is no need to book; just turn up. The day is free; tickets for the concert are on sale just before the concert begins.

The sessions on typesetting lute music on your computer are long since overdue, many would say, while for the Luddites among us there will be a goodly amount of live music, and a talk by Paula Chateauneuf on a very important hitherto-unknown manuscript which recently changed hands at Sothebys.

The timetable for the day is as follows:

10.30 Coffee
11.00 Typesetting lute music on your computer, a seminar organised by Gordon Gregory with speakers to demonstrate typsetting packages: part 1: John Robinson on Wayne Tab, Martin Shepherd on Fronimo, Stewart McCoy on Django.
12.15 Composition contest: judging of entries by public acclaim, peformed by Katalin Ertsey
12.30 Mini-recital by Elena Cicinskaite, playing music by Milan, Narvaez, Dowland and Ferrabosco.

1.00 Break for lunch
2.15 Typesetting lute music on your computer - part 2: Anna Langley on Abc Tab, Sarah Hill on Sibelius, and discussion and questions about future developments, led by Tim Crawford and Gordon Gregory.
3.30 Pre-concert talk, by Paula Chateauneuf, to include her observations on a hitherto unknown manuscript of Roman origin c 1620 containing 85 motets, arias, duets, and choruses with accompaniments, two of which are for ‘chitarrone’ (archlute?), and instrumental toccatas for some of the motets which include tablature for the 'chitarrone' and lira da braccio. This rare example of a musician's working notebook includes extraordinary practical information on ornamentation and basso continuo performance; also: the madrigale passaggiato and Kapsberger’s setting of Ancidetemi pur, the Passaggi diversi sú le note per sonare sopra la parte from Kapsberger's 'Intavolatura di chitarrone, libro terzo'; and some Roman singers and singing traditions. - supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

4.00 Tea
4.30 The Lute Society recital: Fiori musicali romani - Paula Chateauneuf, theorbo and archlute, and Mark Tucker, tenor, perform pieces by Caccini, Peri, Frescobaldi, Domenico Mazzocchi, Luigi Rossi, and Kapsberger..

Thanks to Chris Goodwin
Secretary Lute Society

News from the Lute Society

1. FREE LUTE TABLATURES:

Any of you who received a copy of the two tablature books: Elizabethan Lute Music and Elizabethan Popular Music from me will need a corrected copy, as they contained many errors. Since sending them I have had a computer failure and lost my address book. If you wish to receive a revised copy, or if you have never had one but would like a copy, please supply me with an Email address.
Ray Black, email: blackmale@talk21.com

2. CONCERT WITH LUTE, CORNWALL, SUNDAY EVENING – from baroque to Vaughan Williams

Jeni Melia, soprano, violin, Lindsay Braga, violin, John Braga, recorder, and Chris Goodwin, baritone, lute, are giving a concert at the old chapel, Treligga, on the north Cornish coast, this Sunday evening, 23rd August, of music by Purcell, Dowland, Boismortier, A. Scarlatti, Corrette, and Vaughan Williams. Contact Brian Wright on 01208 814138 if you would like a ticket.

3. COMPOSITION CONTEST

It’s not too late to enter the composition contest to write an easy piece for beginners, the entry form for which went out in the last Lute News. The closing date is 8th September.

4. STUDY DAY AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY, 4TH OCTOBER

Study Day: Music in Purcell's London: "Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow"The British Library, LondonSaturday 4 October 2008, 10am-5pm

The Purcell Society and British Library are pleased to announce that booking is now open for this study day on the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries John Blow and Giovanni Battista Draghi. The study day marks the 300th anniversary of Blow and Draghi's deaths in 1708, and the start of a year-long celebration in the UK of the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth (which occurred in 1658 or 1659).

Keynote speaker: Professor Sir Curtis Price, KBE
Other speakers include Rebecca Herissone, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Andrew Pinnock, Robert Thompson, Bryan White and Bruce Wood. The day will also include performances of music by Purcell, Blow and Draghi.
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions).For booking information and programme details please see http://www.henrypurcell.org.uk/study_day.html
Study day hosted by the Purcell Society and the British Library.

Further information:
Dr Sandra TuppenMusic Collections

The British Library

96 Euston Road

London NW1 2DB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7500

email: sandra.tuppen@bl.uk