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2016-12-16 14:53:30
[…] “split choir” effect), precise symbols to indicate ornamentation, scordatura (the player is instructed to tune the lowest course down a step in the Paduana descorda) and – unique in all the literature – the player is instructed in one passage to “split” a course, so that one string is stopped at the fret and the other played open (also in Paduana descorda). Paduana descorda from The Capirola Lute Book, performed by Trond Bengtson. The passage discussed above is at 1:39. Whether Capirola’s innovations originate with him – or rather came from his contemporaries – is ultimately unknown, due to the paucity of other surviving musical documents from his time. What is certain is that Vidal’s manuscript is a precious treasure without which our knowledge of early 16th century lute music would be so much poorer. decoration from The Capirola Lute Book * […]
2016-03-23 06:00:44
Classical music: The Madison Savoyards will begin paying singers in its summer productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Plus a FREE performance of a rarely heard work by Couperin is on Good Friday at noon.
ALERT: UW-Madison professor and baritone Paul Rowe has sent in the following note: “There is a great, free concert on this Friday at Luther Memorial Church, 1021 University Avenue, from noon to 3 p.m. Singers Chelsie Propst and Christina Kay with organist Bruce Bengtson will be performing François Couperin’s “Leçon de ténèbres” or “Lesson in Gloom.” This work is rarely heard in performance at all, much less in this complete form. It is a fabulous piece and a great way to spend a Good Friday afternoon before Easter with its contemplative mood and its beautiful solos and duets. There will also be appropriate readings and some other music. It is definitely worth hearing.” By Jacob Stockinger Here is some good news for amateurs and semi-professionals who participate in community music-making and community theater. For the first time in its 53-year history, the Madison Savoyards, Ltd. will pay its singers. (Below […]
2016-03-12 08:09:20
Staff photo by Bill Bengtson The Etherredge Center's performance hall, on its way to a capacity crowd, fills a few minutes before the Joye in Aiken finale concert, bringing an end to the annual, weeklong music festival. Friday evening at the Etherredge Center was the setting for more than two centuries of musical classics – and classical music – as the annual Joye in Aiken music festival came to a close.
2016-01-22 07:00:23
Classical music: The Madison Symphony Orchestra’s third annual Organ Three-For-All takes place at Overture Hall this Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. Plus, the Impresario Student Opera makes its debut with a FREE all-Mozart concert on Sunday night at 7:30 p.m.
By Jacob Stockinger Recently retired Bethel Lutheran Church Director of Music and Worship Gary Lewis (below left), Luther Memorial Music Director Bruce Bengtson (below center), and Madison Symphony Orchestra Principal Organist and Curator Samuel Hutchison (below right) will perform the third installment of an organ Three-For-All. The concert is this Saturday night at 7:30 p.m., in Overture Hall, where the three men will perform on the Klais Concert organ . Tickets are $20. For more information including the complete program –which includes music by Johann Sebastian Bach (the famous and dramatic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which you can hear at bottom with an unusual and arresting bar graph in a YouTube video that has almost 26 million hits, at the bottom), Dietrich Buxtehude and Camille Saint-Saens — visit this link: http://www.madisonsymphony.org/threeforall A NEW STUDENT OPERA COMPANY Mikko Rankin Utevsky (below), the versatile musician who […]
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