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Select the early music events listings for another month: Thursday, July 1, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Ravinia Festival presents Boston Baroque performing Monteverdi's "Vespers" (of 1610).
Cost: Tickets are $25 to $40.
Location: the Martin Theatre, Ravinia Park, 200 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-266-5100; or visit the Festival website.
Friday, July 9, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Indianapolis Early Music Festival presents Schola Antiqua of Chicago performing a concert "Voices from the Middle Ages", including works from the Cathedral of Notre Dame and from the Court of Henry VIII.
Cost: $18 single-concert admission (if still available; all-festival subscriptions also available)
Location: the Indianapolis Art Center's Frank M. Basile Auditorium, 820 E. 67th Street (two blocks east of N. College Avenue), Indianapolis, Indiana
For more info: visit www.emindy.org/yr2004.htm
Monday, July 19, 2004, 12:00 noon.
Cost: free admission
Location: Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-744-6630 or 312-346-3278.
Friday, July 9, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Piffaro will perform a benefit concert for the Arts Council of Edgerton.
Cost: $10
Location: The William Wartmann Estate, 104 W. Fulton Street, Edgerton, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 608-884-6787.
Saturday, July 10, 2004, 11:00 AM.
Piffaro will perform a fun-filled family concert, "Follow the Pipers".
Cost: $7 (available only at the door).
Location: the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 608-263-6670.
Saturday, July 10, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents La Venexiana performing a concert, "Monteverdi: The Art of the Madrigal".
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "Golden Age Venice: A City, a Republic, an Empire, a Culture", by John Barker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Sunday, July 11, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the Festival Historical Harp Faculty, joined by singers Nell Snaidas and Cassandra Webster, viola da gambist Analisa Pappano, and dancer Jane Peck, performing "L'Arpa Italiana", a concert of music played on historical harps spanning the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy.
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "Harp in the Italian Renaissance", by by Egberto Bermudez, Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas of the National University of Bogota, Colombia.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the Catacoustic Consort performing a concert, "The Art of the 17th Century Italian Lament", featuring music by Kapsberger, Caccini, Peri, and Monteverdi.
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "The Italian Madrigal in Its Literary and Historical Context", by Christopher Kleinhenz, Professor of Italian and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Thursday, July 15, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the Festival Faculty Concert, with the Newberry Consort and the Festival Faculty joined by Mark Rimple, lute, and Barbara Weiss, harpsichord, performing works by Strozzi, Merula, Monteverdi, Rosenmueller, and Cavalli.
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "Art in Renaissance Venice", by Gail Geiger, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Friday, July 16, 2004, 1:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the Festival Participant Concert, with Festival workshop participants performing in ensembles that have been coached by faculty and guest artists throughout the week of the Festival.
Cost: free admission.
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Friday, July 16, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the Spiritus Collective performing "Cori Spezzati e Virtuosi", larger scale works with two separate choirs of strings, cornetts, and sackbuts contrasting with intimate virtuoso solo and small ensemble works from 17th Century Venice and Northern Italy. Members of Spiritus include Robert Mealy, violin, Kris Ingles, cornetto and natural trumpet, Jean-Pierre Canihac, cornetto, Lucas Harris, theorbo, Francis Conover Fitch, organ and harpsichord, and Greg Ingles, sackbut. Guests include Erik Schmalz, Marck Ramsey, and Rupert Price, sackbut, and Julie Andrijeski, violin.
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "Rapt up with St. Paul into the third heaven, Venetian Brass Playing in the Golden Age" by J. Michael Allsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Saturday, July 17, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Madison Early Music Festival presents the All-Festival Concert, "The Glories of 17th Century Venice", with Festival faculty, guest artists, and students collaborating in a program of music by Monteverdi, Croce, Gabrieli, and Vivaldi.
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 PM, "La Serenissima Takes a Bow", by Ross Duffin, Professor of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Performance Practice, Case Western Reserve University.
Cost: Festival concert passes for all Festival concerts and pre-concert lectures may be purchased in advance for $50 ($40 students/seniors) or at the door. Individual Concert Tickets may be purchased at the door for $13.00 ($10.00 students/seniors).
Location: Mills Concert Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: call Deb Nelson at 608-263-6670; or visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Friday, July 23, 2004, 6:30 PM.
Sunday, July 25, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, Nicholas Kraemer, Conductor, with Karina Gauvin, soprano, and Thomas Meglioranza, baritone, will perform Rameau's Suite from Les Boreades, Handel's Laudate pueri Dominum, and Faure's Requiem.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Millennium Park, intersection of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: e-mail grantparkmusic@mindspring.com; visit www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/.
Saturday, July 24, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Jesse Langen, guitar, will perform a concert of music by Da Milano, Dowland, Frescobaldi, Narvaez, Palestrina, and others.
Cost: Free.
Location: Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, 700 University, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-467-4000 or 847-491-5441.
Saturday July 10 thru Saturday July 17, 2004.
Madison Early Music Festival.
Location: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: write Chelcy Bowles, Program Director, UW-Madison, 720 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703-1195; call 608-263-6670; e-mail cbowles@dcs.wisc.edu; visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Friday July 9 thru Saturday August 7, 2004.
Aston Magna Festival.
Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
For more info: write Ronnie Boriskin, Executive Director, Aston Magna Foundation for Music & the Humanities, PO Box 3167, Danbury, CT 06813-3167; call 800-875-7156; e-mail info@astonmagna.org; visit www.astonmagna.org.
Sunday June 20 thru Sunday July 4, 2004.
Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.
Location: Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
For more info: write Anna Hoffmann, Conservatory of Music, 77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074-1588; call 440-775-8044; e-mail anna.hoffmann@oberlin.edu; visit www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/bpi.
Sunday June 20 thru Monday August 16, 2004.
Interlochen Arts Camp.
Location: Interlochen, Michigan.
For more info: write Mark Cudek, Director, Interlochen H.S. Early Music Program, 312 Woodbourne Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21212; call 410-435-5885; e-mail mcudek@earthlink.net; visit www.interlochen.org.
Sunday July 4 thru Saturday July 10, 2004.
Chamber Music at The Clearing.
Location: Ellison Bay, Wisconsin.
For more info: write Kathy Vanderhoof, Registrar, The Clearing, PO Box 65, Ellison Bay, WI 54210-0065; call 877-854-3225; e-mail clearing@theclearing.org; visit www.theclearing.org.
Sunday July 4 thru Saturday July 10, 2004.
Mountain Collegium Early Music Workshop.
Location: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
For more info: write Robert Castellano, 32 Farrar Road, Shutesbury, MA 01072; call 413-367-0318; e-mail mountaincollegium@yahoo.com; visit www.mountaincollegiummusic.org/.
Sunday July 4 thru Sunday July 11, 2004.
CAMMAC Early Music.
Location: Lake MacDonald Music Centre (north of Montreal), Quebec, Canada.
For more info: write Mélanie Doyon, Registrar, CAMMAC, 85 Chemin, Harrington, PQ J8G 2T2 Canada; call 888-622-8755; e-mail national@cammac.ca; visit www.cammac.ca.
Saturday July 10 thru Saturday July 17, 2004.
Madison Early Music Festival.
Location: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: write Chelcy Bowles, Program Director, UW-Madison, 720 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703-1195; call 608-263-6670; e-mail cbowles@dcs.wisc.edu; visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
Sunday July 11 thru Saturday July 17, 2004.
San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval & Renaissance Workshop.
Location: Dominican University, San Rafael, California.
For more info: write Hanneke van Proosdij, SFEMS, PO Box 10151, Berkeley, CA 94709; call 510-236-9808; e-mail medren@lanset.com; visit www.sfems.org.
Sunday July 11 thru Saturday July 17, 2004.
Canto Antiguo Early Music and Recorder Workshop.
Location: Chapman University, Orange, California.
For more info: write Ron Glass, Co-director, Canto Antiguo, 11057 Valley View, Whittier, CA 90604; call 800-358-6567.
Sunday July 11 thru Sunday July 18, 2004.
CAMMAC Early Music.
Location: Lake MacDonald Music Centre (north of Montreal), Quebec, Canada.
For more info: write Raymond Sealey, Executive Director, CAMMAC, 85 Chemin, Harrington, PQ J8G 2T2 Canada; call 888-622-8755; e-mail national@cammac.ca; visit www.cammac.ca.
Sunday July 11 thru Friday July 23, 2004.
Suzuki Method Recorder, Flute, and Violin Institute.
Location: Ames, Iowa.
For more info: write Irmi Miller, 4033 Ross Road, Ames, IA 50014-3832; call 515-292-6118; e-mail irmim@netscape.net.
Sunday July 11 thru Sunday July 25, 2004.
Amherst Early Music Festival.
Location: Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
For more info: write Marilyn Boenau, 47 Prentiss Street, Watertown, MA 02472; call 617-744-1324; e-mail info@amherstearlymusic.org; visit www.amherstearlymusic.org.
Saturday July 17 thru Saturday July 24, 2004.
Early Music Week at Pinewoods Camp.
Location: Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
For more info: write Steve Howe, Country Dance and Song Society, PO Box 338, Haydenville, MA 01039; call 413-268-7426 x3 (day); e-mail camp@cdss.org; visit www.cdss.org/em.
Sunday July 18 thru Saturday July 24, 2004.
Mideast Workshop.
Location: LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
For more info: write Marilyn Carlson, Director, Mideast Workshop, 1008 Afton Road, Columbus, OH 43221-1680; call 614-457-1403; e-mail mcarlson@columbus.rr.com; visit www.mideastearlymusic.addr.com.
Sunday July 18 thru Saturday July 24, 2004.
San Francisco Early Music Society Recorder Workshop.
Location: Dominican University, San Rafael, California.
For more info: write Frances Feldon, SFEMS, PO Box 10151, Berkeley, CA 94709; call 510-527-9840; e-mail franfel@aol.com; visit www.sfems.org.
Sunday July 18 thru Saturday August 21, 2004.
Vancouver Early Music Program & Festival.
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
For more info: write José Verstappen, Executive Director, Early Music Vancouver, 1254 W. 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 1B6, Canada; call 604-732-1610; e-mail workshops@earlymusic.bc.ca; visit www.earlymusic.bc.ca.
Thursday July 22 thru Sunday July 25, 2004.
Ars Musica Chicago's Third Annual Gregorian Chant Workshop and Concert. Participants will sing and study Mozarabic chant as well as Gregorian chants that reflect the Spanish tradition.
View the schedule and registration form here (DOC, 24 KB).
Cost: $50 for all events, or $15 ($12 senior citizens and students) for the concert alone.
Location: St. Vincent de Paul Church (on the Lincoln Park campus of DePaul University), 1010 W. Webster, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-409-7874; or visit www.ArsMusicaChicago.org.
Friday July 23 thru Sunday August 1, 2004.
International Baroque Institute at Longy.
Location: Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For more info: write Sarah Hornbeck, Director of Continuing Studies and Summer Programs, Longy School of Music, One Follen Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; call 617-876-0956 x611 (day); e-mail shornbeck@longy.edu; visit www.longy.edu.
Sunday July 25 thru Friday July 30, 2004.
Boxwood Festival & Workshop.
Location: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
For more info: write Ann Huntoon, Boxwood, 713 South Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449; call 715-384-6585; e-mail ann@boxwood.org; visit www.boxwood.org.
Sunday July 25 thru Saturday July 31, 2004.
6th Annual Baroque Flute Boot Camp.
Location: Seattle, Washington.
For more info: write Kim Pineda, Director, Baroque Northwest, 117 East Louisa Street, PMB #430, Seattle, WA 98102; call 206-579-4659; e-mail baroquenorthwest@hotmail.com; visit www.baroquenorthwest.com/nfbfbc.html.
Sunday July 25 thru Saturday July 31, 2004.
Viola da Gamba Society of America.
Location: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
For more info: write Ken Perlow, Treasurer, Viola da Gamba Society of America, 131 S. Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302; call 708-989-1729; e-mail post@vdgsa.org; visit www.vdgsa.org.
Sunday July 25 thru Saturday July 31, 2004.
Recorder at the Clearing.
Location: The Clearing, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin.
For more info: write Kathy Vanderhoof, Registrar, The Clearing, PO Box 65, Ellison Bay, WI 54210-0065; call 877-854-3225 (toll-free) or 920-854-4088 (day); e-mail clearing@theclearing.org; visit www.theclearing.org.
Thursdays, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, July 29, August 5, August 12, August 19, 2004.
Bella Voce will host its annual Summer Polyphony Camp, under the direction of Ann Heider, focusing on the early music of Josquin des Prez, Morley, Palestrina, and others. The purpose of the camp is not about preparing a performance, it's about sharing the experience of a cappella singing. No audition necessary. Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, and enrollment is limited to 40 singers.
Cost: tuition is $98 and includes all music.
Location: Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: e-mail mail@bellavoce.org; or call 312-461-0723.
Saturday July 31 thru Sunday August 1, 2004.
Portland State University Haystack Summer Program in the Arts Renaissance Music Workshop.
Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon.
For more info: write Elizabeth Snyder, Director, Portland State University Haystack Summer Program in the Arts, PO Box 1491, Portland, OR 97207; call 503-725-4186; e-mail snydere@pdx.edu.
Sunday, July 11, 2004, 10:00 AM.
The Oak Park Recorder Society will perform prelude, postlude, and in-service music.
Location: Riverside Presbyterian Church, 116 Barrypoint Road, Riverside, Illinois.
For more info: call 708-447-1520.
Saturday July 10 thru Saturday July 17, 2004.
The Madison Early Music Festival will present a series of pre-concert lectures at 6:30 PM on 7/10, 7/11, 7/13, 7/15, 7/16, and 7/17.
Location: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: write Chelcy Bowles, Program Director, UW-Madison, 720 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703-1195; call 608-263-6670; e-mail cbowles@dcs.wisc.edu; visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/memf.
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