2024 Fall Events
UPDATE
Due to unforseen circumstances, our October session has been postponed. The November session is still planned to go on as scheduled.
New Event for Fall 2024! In-Person Playing of Renaissance Consort Music of Italy, England, and the Netherlands.
The HPRS is pleased to announce our In-Person Playing Sessions of Renaissance Consort Music of Italy, England, and the Netherlands for the fall of 2024, led by Lewis Baratz. Meetings will be on October 5 and November 2, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM EDT (with a 10-minute break), held at the Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19 South Second Ave., Highland Park, NJ. Lewis will provide tips on ensemble playing, tone production, articulation, and musical style.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
We will resume in-person playing meetings, under the musical direction of Lewis R. Baratz, Ph.D., with a focus on Italian Renaissance consort music for various combinations of recorders. We will be exploring the music of the following composers –
Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545 –1607, Ferrara, Italy) Italian organist and composer, one of the most celebrated composers and keyboard players of the Italian Renaissance
Cesario Gussago (1579, Ostiano, Italy-1612) Italian priest, musician, church organist and composer of instrumental and sacred vocal music of the Late Italian Renaissance
Adriano Banchieri (Bologna,1568-Bologna 1634), an Italian composer, music theorist, composer, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. One of the principle composers of madrigal comedies.
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1554, Carravaggio, Italy – 1609, Mantua, Italy), Italian composer of the late Renaissance and Early Baroque periods. Composer of madrigals, sacred music for 5 voices, and known for his 1591 publication of two sets of balleti, a vocal dance that immediately became a “best seller” and seemed to personify a type of lover and love-making.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
In-person playing meeting, under the musical direction of Lewis R. Baratz, Ph.D., Consort Music Mostly of England and the Netherlands. We will explore the music of the following composers –
Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1455, Condé-sur-l’Escaut, France - 27 Aug., 1521), Franco-Flemish composer of High Renaissance Music. One of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, Central Figure of the Franco-Flemish School. Had a profound influence on the music of 16th century Europe.
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621, Wolfenbüttel, Germany). Prolific German composer, Organist and Music theorist. His Syntagma musicum (1614-1620) is a principle source of knowledge of 17th-century music. In his published collection Terpsichore (1612) he introduced several hundred foreign dance pieces to Germany.
Jacques Arcadelt (b. c1500; d.Paris 1568). Franco-Flemish composer, spent much of his life in Italy; singer in the papal choir in the 1540s and early 1550s. He was perhaps the most important of the northern composers who settled in Italy at the time the madrigal was developing.
William Brade (b. 1560, England; d. 1630, Hamburg, Germany), English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and Baroque eras. He published 5 volumes of dances which mark an important stage in the development of the suite. He was one of the 17th-century English composers who had a strong influence on German instrumental music.
John Dowland (b. London or Dublin, 1562; bd. London 1626) English composer and lutenist. He was the greatest composer of the lute ayre, which succeeded the madrigal as the fashionable genre. He published 5 volumes between 1597 and 1612. He published a collection of Lachrymae for viol consort and lute in 1605. His lute songs are remarkable for their depth of expression and dramatic declamation of the words. The Lachrymae are based on one of his most famous tunes, Flow my tears.
Registration information
- Days: The first Saturday of the months of October and November. (Oct. 5, Nov. 2)
- Time: 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. EDT with a 10-minute break.
- Location: The Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19 South Second Ave, Highland Park, NJ
- Participants receive music in advance upon registering.
Fees: $20 per session for participants.
