The February meeting was particularly well-attended, which was most encouraging.
Ray Butcher worked us hard with the FGS Day music and a lot of progress was made with both of our chosen pieces. In fact, by common consent, the meeting didn’t finish until almost 10:00 pm, such was the level of interest in practising the ensembles. Also, we enjoyed an hour of members playing their solos and duets, which were as follows:
Dave Hampton. Sonata K213 by Scarlatti.
Tom Rimmer.-Autumn Leaves by David Pash and Etude 5 by Leo Brouwer.
Marion Davis. Danza del Arpa by Vincent Lindsey-Clark.
Danny Kim. Romance d’Amor (Anon.)
Freddy Carvalho. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Jerome Kern.
Vince Chittenden/Larissa Lieberman. Gypsy Dance (Duet).
Vince Chittenden. Milonga by Jorge Cardoso.
Christine Dabrowa. Cavatina by Stanley Myers.
John Mann. Sons de Carrilhoes by Joao Pernambuco and Se Ela Perguntar by Dilermando Reis.
Rob Sellery. Fantasia in C Minor by Weiss and Passacaglia in D by Weiss.
Miles Roberts. Preludio Triston by Maximo Pujol and Valseana by Sergio Assad.
Click here to listen to the performances
The standard of playing throughout the whole evening was very high and members have been asked to make every effort to continue their strong measure of support for the remaining meetings, leading up to FGS Day on June 26. It will not be possible to play individual pieces or duets at the March meeting but this, hopefully, will not deter members from attending. We still have to practise the, as yet unknown, other ensemble music, which Cornelius Bruinsma will lead the massed societies in performing on FGS Day.
Lute Society and other news..
1. THE VIHUELA REPERTOIRE ON CD ROM – STRICTLY WHILE STOCKS LAST!
Carlos Gonzalez of the Spanish vihuela society has been surprised to discover in his house one last unsold box of the CD ROM of the entire vihuela repertoire in colour facsimile.
The Lute Society has been allotted 10 copies, of which the first five have arrived [I’ll pick up the rest at the Gijon Festival] – so it’s first come, first served! The price is £45 including postage anywhere in the world. Cheques or paypal payments to sales@lutesoc.co.uk are welcome – but email me to reserve your copy first!!!
Best wishes, Chris Goodwin
2. JIM TYLER MEMORIAL
Lute Society members visiting the Los Angeles area on 22 March are invited to attend a memorial programme, "Remembering James Tyler," to be held at the University of Southern California's Alfred Newman Concert Hall at 7:30p.m. It will include images, recordings, and video clips of things and events that Jim regarded as highlights of his multi-faceted career as a musician, director, arranger, author, and educator, as well as performances of a few of the pieces that he loved to play by some of his most prized former students, now professional musicians in the field of early music. A reception follows the programme.
Carlos Gonzalez of the Spanish vihuela society has been surprised to discover in his house one last unsold box of the CD ROM of the entire vihuela repertoire in colour facsimile.
The Lute Society has been allotted 10 copies, of which the first five have arrived [I’ll pick up the rest at the Gijon Festival] – so it’s first come, first served! The price is £45 including postage anywhere in the world. Cheques or paypal payments to sales@lutesoc.co.uk are welcome – but email me to reserve your copy first!!!
Best wishes, Chris Goodwin
2. JIM TYLER MEMORIAL
Lute Society members visiting the Los Angeles area on 22 March are invited to attend a memorial programme, "Remembering James Tyler," to be held at the University of Southern California's Alfred Newman Concert Hall at 7:30p.m. It will include images, recordings, and video clips of things and events that Jim regarded as highlights of his multi-faceted career as a musician, director, arranger, author, and educator, as well as performances of a few of the pieces that he loved to play by some of his most prized former students, now professional musicians in the field of early music. A reception follows the programme.
3. CONCERT IN CAMBRIDGE 26th FEBRUARY
TARO TAKEUCHI plays BAROQUE & ENGLISH GUITAR
SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2011
LUNCHTIME (13.30)
LEE HALL, WOLFSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/societies/music/concertdiary/
Programme
Henry Purcell Ciaconne for guitar
Francesco Geminiani:Menuet Affectuoso
Straube: Suite for English guitar
etc.
Instruments
5 course guitar by Marchal, Paris, c.1770
English guitar (guittar) by Perry, Dublin, c.1760
Admission Free (with a retiring collection)
contact: jrw84@cam.ac.uk (James Westbrook)
More detail
http://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/cdaffect.htm
TARO TAKEUCHI plays BAROQUE & ENGLISH GUITAR
SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2011
LUNCHTIME (13.30)
LEE HALL, WOLFSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/societies/music/concertdiary/
Programme
Henry Purcell Ciaconne for guitar
Francesco Geminiani:Menuet Affectuoso
Straube: Suite for English guitar
etc.
Instruments
5 course guitar by Marchal, Paris, c.1770
English guitar (guittar) by Perry, Dublin, c.1760
Admission Free (with a retiring collection)
contact: jrw84@cam.ac.uk (James Westbrook)
More detail
http://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/cdaffect.htm
BGS Meeting: Saturday 15th January
Hi Folks
Just a quick catch up on the news front.
After a bout of confusion regarding dates for this event which I can only put down to the snow, influenza, travel back to Australia, jet lag and probably excess drink (the latter the more obvious cause!!), the BGS managed to roll out a meeting for the correct date!!
Your correspondent wasn't on hand unfortunately for the event as he was suffering a bad case of jet lag but I understand from Shirley and Den that the meeting was a great success!!
The meeting was well attended with Ray keeping all the troops on task with our performance of Lo Palmeros (and Ray I HAVE been practising and I can almost play the whole thing! Well.... almost!!
Some great solos were performed including
Marion played Cubana by Patrick Benham
Freddy played L'Oiseau by Philips
Danny Kim played September by Robin Pearson
Vince Chittenden played Milonga Maximo by Diego Pujol
Ron performed Rondo by Carulli
Trevor performed Villancio de Navidad by Barrios
John performed Su Cosa by Alfonso Montes
Just a quick catch up on the news front.
After a bout of confusion regarding dates for this event which I can only put down to the snow, influenza, travel back to Australia, jet lag and probably excess drink (the latter the more obvious cause!!), the BGS managed to roll out a meeting for the correct date!!
Your correspondent wasn't on hand unfortunately for the event as he was suffering a bad case of jet lag but I understand from Shirley and Den that the meeting was a great success!!
The meeting was well attended with Ray keeping all the troops on task with our performance of Lo Palmeros (and Ray I HAVE been practising and I can almost play the whole thing! Well.... almost!!
Some great solos were performed including
Marion played Cubana by Patrick Benham
Freddy played L'Oiseau by Philips
Danny Kim played September by Robin Pearson
Vince Chittenden played Milonga Maximo by Diego Pujol
Ron performed Rondo by Carulli
Trevor performed Villancio de Navidad by Barrios
John performed Su Cosa by Alfonso Montes
Update
Make sure that you have pencilled in the following information in your 2011 diaries! Bromley will be hosting the Federation Guitar Societies meeting at Hawes Down Junior School on Sunday 26h June 2011. More information about the event will be forthcoming- Watch this space!!