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  • Palestrina workshop for voices directed by David Allinson (Challock)

    Challock Memorial Hall Blind Lane, Challock, United Kingdom

    Directed by David Allinson David Allinson writes: This year the early music world has been celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth. An astonishingly productive composer, he wrote over a hundred settings of the Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, etc.), many of which remain unheard and unrecorded today. For this workshop, we will explore Palestrina’s supreme […]

  • Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Alison Kinder (Boxgrove)

    Boxgrove Village Hall The Street, Boxgrove, United Kingdom

    A European Advent Alison Kinder will take us on a musical tour of western Europe. Come and explore some glorious – but less familiar – music appropriate to the approaching Advent season. Subject to the forces available (especially tenors!), the music will include: Ecce Dominus Veniet a8 (Praetorius); O Lieber Herre Gott a7 (Schutz), Spiritus […]

  • Orlando Gibbons and the Music of Westminster Abbey (Zoom)

    Zoom

    A Zoom talk by Patrick Craig Orlando Gibbons was one of the most brilliant and imaginative composers this country has ever produced. He is beloved by jazz musicians such as Glenn Gould for his inventive and unpredictable genius. In this lecture Patrick traces his career at Westminster Abbey, looking at his predecessors who shaped his […]

  • Workshop for voices and Renaissance instruments directed by Gawain Glenton

    Headcorn Village Hall Church Lane, Headcorn

    The workshop will focus on the music of Giovanni Croce (1557-1609), who was a leading Venetian composer of his day. His sacred music shows a development from the even-textured style of Palestrina to the more modern Venetian style, using multiple choruses, solo voices, crisp instrumental rhythms, and basso continuo.We intend to include his 10-part Dialogo […]

  • A Party in Augsburg with Lizzie Gutteridge

    Scaynes Hill Village Centre Lewes Road, Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Music of the early 16th century German Town and Dance bands Director: Lizzie Gutteridge Online booking form (preferred) Further details and postal booking form This workshop is for players of all Medieval & Renaissance instruments at A=440. Players of loud winds are encouraged to also bring a quieter alternative instrument with them for occasional calmer […]

  • John Hancorn : choruses from Handel’s Samson and Saul

    Headcorn Village Hall Church Lane, Headcorn

    Booking is now open for a workshop on Sunday 4 October for singers and instruments, in Headcorn Village Hall.  The tutor will be John Hancorn, who has taken several workshops for us before.  This time the music will be choruses from Handel's Samson and Saul. The workshop is open to SATB singers and the instruments below.  Pitch […]

  • Alison Kinder : Workshop for voices and instruments

    Fishbourne Church Hall Fishbourne Road West, Fishbourne, United Kingdom

    The musical menagerie Alison Kinder invites us to a day at the zoo, encountering all manner of interesting animals and birds, most of them real. The workshop is suitable for singers (all voices) and players of instruments appropriate to the period (strings – viol and violin families; loud and soft wind; and continuo instruments). Loud wind players might find […]