R/EMM

Join us for a morning in Renaissance Paris, playing 16th and early 17th-century French chansons.

• Consorts at 4 levels with Alan Karass, Daniel Meyers, John Tyson & Sheila Beardslee.

Works by 2009 Anniversary composers: Purcell, du Caurroy, Croce, Asola.

• Consorts at 3 levels with Sarah Cantor, Daniel Meyers
  & Sheila Beardslee

Celebrate Italian History Month with us!

• Consorts at 3 levels with Héloïse Degrugillier, Eric Haas & John Tyson
• Choral morning on works of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce with Michael Barrett, director of Convivium Musicum.

It may be cold outside, but we’re warm inside as we play holiday favorites from around the world.

• Consorts at 3 levels with Justin Godoy, Roy Sansom & Sheila Beardslee & Grande Bande for all.

A focussed morning with one coach on selected topics.

Instead of our regular format, where each group works with two coaches, you may request the ensemble(s) you’d like to play in and you’ll work with that coach for the whole morning!

Level Topic/Coach
LI/I Madrigals (Sarah Cantor)
I German Chorale settings (Sheila Beardslee)
I/HI Transcriptions of English Keyboard Music (Héloïse Degrugillier)
HI/A 20th- & 21st-century Recorder Music (Daniel Meyers)

• Request the topic(s) you’re interested in
• Two sessions with the same coach
  9:30-10:45 AM and 11 AM-12:15 PM
• RSVP by January 13, 2010
• Visitor fee $12; R/EMM members free

Works by Renaissance & Baroque composers from Naples and surrounding cities, featuring works of Nola, Gesualdo, Alessandro Scarlatti and others as well as works based on the writings of  epic poet Torquato Tasso.

• Consorts at 4 levels
• Two sessions  9:30-10:45 AM and 11 AM-12:15 PM
• RSVP by February 11
• Visitor fee $12; R/EMM members free

Rich motets and lively dance music from the hugely prolific German composer Michael Praetorius.

• Consorts with Sarah Cantor, Eric Haas, and Dan Meyers
• Choral morning with Heinrich Christensen, music director at King’s Chapel.

Music by English Renaissance masters from the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Consorts at 3 levels with Sarah Cantor, Bruce Larkin & Dan Meyers.
• Choral morning with Scott Metcalfe, director of Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
• Two sessions 9:30-10:45 AM and 11 AM-12:15 PM
• RSVP by April 8
  PDF files for choral morning available April 7.
• Choral program $18; R/EMM members $12; Choral Affiliates free.
  Consort visitor fee $12; R/EMM members free

Susan Hellauer, founding member of the acclaimed women’s vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, returns to Boston for a weekend exploration of Sarum chant. The Rite or Use of Sarum (the Latin name for Salisbury) was Britain’s own variation of the Roman liturgy throughout the Middle Ages until the Reformation. While many Sarum chants were also sung elsewhere in Christian Europe, Sarum Chant is a distinct and distinctive melodic dialect, and includes many compositions unique to the British Isles.

After Susan reviews medieval chant mode theory and practice, we will learn and sing several of these works from votive masses to the Virgin Mary from 13th-/14th-century British sources. The workshop will culminate in a performance of a Sarum plainchant “Ladymass,” with interpolations of 13th-century polyphony.

When fans ask members of Anonymous 4 why these talented women sing so many works in honor of Mary, Susan tells them: “because she got the best music!” And now we get to sing it too!

Saturday & Sunday, November 21-22, 200

Saturday, 9:30 am-4:45 pm

• St. Paul’s Catholic Church
  29 Mt Auburn Street (Harvard Square), Cambridge MA
• MBTA Redline/Harvard Square
• lunch places near by or bring your own lunch

Sunday, 1:15 pm-4:30 pm

• Church of Our Saviour, 25 Monmouth St, Brookline
• MBTA Greenline/Cleveland Circle to Hawes St
• about 10 minutes walk from Kenmore Square

OPEN TO SINGERS OF ALL LEVELS

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE   Sarum Ladymass
Sunday, November 22 at 5 PM
Church of Our Saviour, 25 Monmouth St, Brookline MA

FEE $100 for both days, includes music, notebook & refreshments.
$75 for R/EMM members & R/EMM Choral affiliates
Please register by November 9, 2009.

INFO Sheila Beardslee sheilabb@verizon.net , 978-264-0584

To register, send your check payable to R/EMM by the November 9 deadline, to Sheila Beardslee, 29 Main St, Acton MA 01720. All materials will be available at the workshop; some materials may be sent in advance