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SUMMARY:South American Adventures; in Search of Music with Jeffrey Skidmore
DESCRIPTION:An online workshop with Jeffrey Skidmore\, OBE\, Director of Ex Cathedra. \nJeffrey Skidmore OBE talks about his travels in Mexico\, Bolivia and Brazil over the last 20 years and will share the music and manuscripts he found and the people he met – singers\, players\, musicologists and librarians. Beaches\, jungles\, pyramids\, volcanos\, caipirinhas\, margaritas and mate de coca also play their part! \nYou will have the opportunity to sing along to some of the pieces that have become the ‘classics’ of the repertoire\, singing in Nahuatl\, Quechua\, Chiquitan\, Spanish\, Portuguese and Latin. \nJeffrey Skidmore has been Artistic Director of Ex Cathedra for over 50 years and has an international reputation for the quality and range of his work. Baroque music from Latin America has featured prominently in recent years and he has given many magical performances in beautiful venues around the world\, he has recorded four  CDs\, created many new editions and explored a whole new world of performance practice. \nPlease book below.
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/south-american-baroque/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Venice 1: The Barber's Son: the Life of Silvestro Ganassi -a talk by Philip Thorby
DESCRIPTION:The life of Silvestro Ganassi\, the son of a barber from Bergamo\, became the most famous musician in Venice as well as being a renowned painter. We will look at the Venice he knew\, the Doges for whom he worked\, his rich patrons and his family band. We will\nsee what his contemporaries wrote about him\, both in biography and in fiction\, and follow his life from his birth to immigrant\nparents above a humble barber’s shop near the rialto to his death as a proud Venetian cittadino. \nIf you know Philip you will know his love of Venice\, Silvestro Ganassi and Adriaan Willaert: Venice for its innate beauty and its unique place in the history of the renaissance\, Ganassi as the most famous and revered Venetian musician of his day\, and Willaert as the gentle Fleming who expressed the Venetian ideals in his music and his character. Philip is going to share this passion in two on-line lectures and two webinars in which you are welcome to take part with comments and questions. Each one will stand alone\, but taken together they will present a fascinating view of Venice in the early 1500s\, where the lives of Ganassi and Willaert intertwined with the aristocratic Pietro Bembo\, the great printer Aldo Manutio and the incomparable verse of Francesco Petrarca. \nPlease book below. \nThe remaining three talks will be:\n2. The New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony on Saturday 20th February 7pm\n3. Bellezza e Bontà on Saturday 6th March 7pm\n4. Musica Nova on Saturday 20th March 7pm
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/venice-1-the-barbers-son-the-life-of-silvestro-ganassi-a-talk-by-philip-thorby/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210213T110000
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SUMMARY:SingTheScore Extra with Robert Hollingworth
DESCRIPTION:Another in our popular series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and this week’s guest William Hunt\, viol player and more. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice – this week Byrd’s Ne Irascaris Domine. Music links will be sent out in advance when you book. \nBooking now open – see below.
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/singthescore-extra-with-robert-hollingworth-8/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210220T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210220T120000
DTSTAMP:20260730T110227
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SUMMARY:The Petrucci Canti B Project - a talk by David Hatcher
DESCRIPTION:An online talk by David Hatcher about his Petrucci Canti B project which has involved his students at the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire\, and which has been sponsored by MEMF and BMEMF. \nThis should be a fascinating session.  Firstly David will tell us about the recording project that took place in November 2020 at Alpheton New Maltings\, Suffolk\, where the Linarol Consort recorded some of the Petrucci Canti B music.  He will play video clips of rehearsal and recording sessions and explain a little of the processes involved\, the choice of instruments and difficulties of social distancing. \nThen he will tell us about the manuscript with illustrations and how he used it to help The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students produce modern editions as part of their course work.  He will then go on to explain and demonstrate the instruments; the renaissance viol compared to the baroque viol and the renaissance and baroque recorder.  Finally we will finish with a sing through of Baises moy by Josquin (score provided with joining information). \nPlease book below. \n  \n 
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/the-petrucci-canti-b-project/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210220T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210220T200000
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SUMMARY:Venice 2: the New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony with Philip Thorby
DESCRIPTION:The second in Philip’s talks about Venice in the 1500s. The New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony is how Silvestro Ganassi described the great Flemish composer Adriaan Willaert\, who became Maestro di Capella of St.Marks in 1527 and stayed there until his death in 1562. We will follow his progress from Flanders via Paris and Ferrrara to Venice. This lecture is brought to you by the letter “P” – not only Prometheus\, but also the Patrician (Pietro Bembo)\, the Poet (Petrarch) and the Printer (Aldo Manutio)\, all of whom come together in the Venetian palazzo of a rich  Florentine exile\, where\, in an atmosphere of great secrecy\, Willaert explores an entirely new kind of music. \nPlease book below.
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/venice-2-the-new-prometheus-with-philip-thorby/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210227T110000
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SUMMARY:SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
DESCRIPTION:Another in our popular series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a mystery guest – this week a violinist. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice.  This week we will be singing  Byrd – Laudibus in sanctis (all three sections) and Byrd – O salutaris (if there is time) \nPlease book below – the scores will be attached to your confirmation email.
URL:http://memf.org.uk/event/singthescore-extra-with-robert-hollingworth-7/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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