2020-2021 Seminar Series: Join us on June 14

On Monday, June 14th the HPRS will present the final of nine Zoom seminars in 2020-2021 on Early Music Performance, “English Division Music Around 1700.” The program will begin with a Meet & Greet at 7:15 P.M. (All times are Eastern Daylight Time.) Dr. Lewis Baratz and guest artist Matthew Weinman, professional lutenist, composer, and theorbo player, will discuss The Art of Division on the Ground Bass, a quasi-improvisatory style of the late 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. Professional violinist and guest artist, Lea Karpman, will assist with musical examples. Read More ›

2020-2021 Seminar Series: Join us on May 10

Coming up on Monday, May 10th is our next Seminar in Early Music Performance, “Introduction to French Baroque Music.” The program will begin at 7:30 PM, with a Meet & Greet at 7:15 PM. (All times are Eastern Daylight Time.) Read More ›

2020-2021 Seminar Series: Join us on April 12

This seminar will be primarily a playing session. HPRS’ 2020-20201 Music Director Lewis R. Baratz, Ph.D. and Guest Presenter Allen Hamrick will lead us through two-part recorder music from the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. The repertory list includes arrangements of two-part pieces (bicinia) by Orlando di Lasso and Orazio Vecchi, a fantasia by Thomas Morley, three of the duets from the Fluyten Lusthof of Jacob van Eyck, and sonatas by Godfrey Finger and Jacques Paisible. Read More ›

2020-2021 Seminar Series: Join us on March 8

Playing Telemann’s Fantasias for Solo Flute/Recorder. Read More ›

2020-2021 Seminar Series: Join us on February 8

For this month’s Seminar, on February 8th, 2021, we will meet via Zoom at 7:15 P.M. for a Meet-&-Greet. At 7:30 P.M. Lewis Baratz will discuss ornamentation in the late Baroque era, c. 1700 to 1750. We will learn about “French graces,” how to play trills, mordants, and appoggiaturas, and then examine the more florid ornamentation seen in the sonatas of Handel, Telemann, Babell, Corelli, and Geminiani. Read More ›

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Through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.