ENDANGERED MUSICS
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NEW ~ Pre-Concert Talks at 6:30pm
I. ENDANGERED CRYSTAL: The Glass Harmonica
Saturday, February 12 7:30pm ~ UCSC Music Ctr Recital Hall (map)Featuring William Wilde Zeitler (glass harmonica), accompanied by 18th-century instruments: Linda Burman-Hall (chest organ), Alissa Roedig (flute), Marianne Pfau (oboe), Andrew Davies (viola) & Amy Brodo (violoncello).
Invented by Benjamin Franklin, the pure, ‘heavenly’ sound of the glass harmonica became immensely popular in the late 18th century. Mozart wrote his glorious last chamber music for glass harmonica, and Beethoven was similarly inspired. William Zeitler, a foremost exponent, will share classics and some original compositions.
● Special Guest: A piece of European street life with Darryl Coe and his Drehorgel (monkey organ, outside)
● Special Event: Artist Reception (donors & subscribers)
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II. RARE STRINGS
Saturday, March, 12 7:30pm ~ UCSC Music Ctr Recital Hall (map)Featuring John Schneiderman (Baroque lute, 11-string Russian guitar & 19th-century 7-string guitar).
Traveling by lute and guitar, virtuoso artist John Schneiderman will offer concert goers a musical promenade from Moscow to the Dresden court and the Parisian salon (including a brief escapade to Vienna). This program of music from the 1700s and 1800s includes selections by Weiss, Alexandrov, Sychra, Coste, and Mertz, played on a collection of "rare strings": The baroque lute, 11-string Russian guitar, and 19th-century 7-string guitar, each a different "endangered" musical animal, were brought to the brink of extinction by emerging rival species, or changing environmental conditions.
● Special Events: (Endangered) Instrument Exhibit (intermission) & Youth Competition awards
● View: Event Poster | Review | Photos (Instrument Exhibit)
III. THREE CENTURIES OF ENDANGERED SOUNDS
Saturday, April 2, 7:30pm ~ Holy Cross Church (map)Featuring the Driftwood Consort: Louise Carslake, Lars Johannesson & Alissa Roedig (renaissance flutes); Yueh Chou & Anna Marsh (baroque bassoons), Amy Brodo (classical baryton) with Andrew Davies (viola) & Roy Wheldon (viola da gamba).
Explore a gallery of sounds high and low, winds and strings, traversing Renaissance to Baroque to Classic periods. A consort of keyless and wooden renaissance flutes in different sizes will offer an enchanting survey of nations with the works of Byrd, Playford, Arbeau, Marenzio, di Lasso, and Van Eyck (performing: Driftwood Consort). In the sonorous company of baroque bassoons we attend the King of China's Masked Ball to view the 'Gate of a Pagoda' through a baroque lens (performing: Yueh Chou & Anna Marsh, baroque bassoons). From our escapade with double reeds we continue to Nicholas Esterhazy's court, where the great Haydn regularly composed for the Prince's baryton - an unusual stringed instrument that was both bowed and plucked. A viola and cello complete the trio (performing: Amy Brodo - baryton, with viola & viola da gamba). Happy travels across 3 centuries!
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IV. FOREST SONG: The Classical Clarinet
Saturday, April 16, 7:30pm ~ UCSC Music Ctr Recital Hall (map)Featuring Eric Hoeprich (classical clarinet) with Linda Burman-Hall (fortepiano)
In the baroque period the clarinet was indeed a 'rare bird' just hatched around 1700. The classical clarinet of Mozart's time had only 5 keys but yielded great timbral variety. Enjoy the silken voice of this endangered instrument in works by Lefčvre, Stadler, Hoffmeister, Weber and Beethoven, brought to you by one of the world's leading historical clarinetists. Eric Hoeprich has performed and recorded with renowned artists Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, Sir Roger Norrington, and Christopher Hogwood, and Musica Antiqua Köln, just to name a few. He has also authored a book on the history of the clarinet through the musical instrument series of Yale University Press. In addition to music, we explore parallels in the conservation of species and instruments with images of endangered wildlands, including rare birds and animals selected by biologist Richard Tenaza. This visual presentation is accompanied by a sound collage by Linda Burman-Hall. "Bilou Sapiens" (Wise Bilou) layers the voices of live wooden flutes over Tenaza's fieldwork recordings of animal sounds from the Mentawai Rainforest (electro-acoustic composition with Lars Johannesson & Alissa Roedig, baroque flutes).
● View: Event Poster | Press Release (More Info)
● Link: Click here to read an interview with Eric Hoeprich
V. PRIMAL WINDS: The Whole Noyse
Saturday, May 14, 7:30pm ~ First Congregational Church (map)Featuring The Whole Noyse: Stephen Escher (curved cornetts, recorder), Richard Van Hessel & Sandy Stadtfeld (sackbuts - ancestor of the trombone, recorder, gittern), Herbert Myers (curtal - ancestor of the bassoon, recorder, viola), with Alexandra Opsahl (cornett, recorder).
The Whole Noyse derives its name from medieval England, when a group of loud wind instruments was called a ‘noise’. At the cusp of Renaissance and Baroque, their repertoire includes rousing dances and canzonas by Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Gabrieli, Girolamo Frescobaldi and others, all played on replicas of 16th to early 17th-century instruments.
● Special Guest: Back by Popular Demand - Darryl Coe returns with his Drehorgel and Affe (outside)
● Link: Photos of Darryl Coe
● Special Event: Artist Reception (donors & subscribers)
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* There is a $3 charge for event parking at UCSC.
