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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 guest.  Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. \nThis week Robert and Nicolas Mulroy will talk about Monteverdi.  They will each choose a track\,  play it and talk about why they like it and other Monteverdi-ish things.  The two tracks are Laudate Dominum and T’amo mia vita and you will receive links to the scores when you book (see below) and have a chance to sing them on the day. \nQuestions welcome\, as always.
URL:https://memf.org.uk/event/singthescore-extra-with-robert-hollingworth-and-guest/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online,Voices
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SUMMARY:SingtheScore Extra with Robert Hollingworth
DESCRIPTION:The last this summer in our popular fortnightly series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and guest.  Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. He will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice. This week’s guest will be the musicologist Professor Laurie Stras who will talk about the (until recently) mostly unknown world of music in convents in 16th century Italy. \nProfessor Stras is co-director of two early music ensembles\, Musica Secreta and an amateur female-voice choir\, Celestial Sirens.  For over twenty years\, her principal research focus has been the female musicians at the court and convents of 16th-century Ferrara\, and she has complemented this research with performance activities with her two ensembles. Her monograph on the female musicians at the court and convents of 16th-century Ferrara\, Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara will be published in 2018.  She is also Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield. \nRobert is hoping to continue SingTheScore Extra in the autumn\, but probably only once a month. \nPlease book below. \n 
URL:https://memf.org.uk/event/singthescore-extra-with-robert-hollingworth-13/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online,Voices
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SUMMARY:Henry Purcell and the Music of Westminster Abbey with Patrick Craig
DESCRIPTION:Another presentation in Patrick’s inimitable style\, with wonderful pictures\, musical excerpts and personal anecdotes. \nHenry Purcell has been described as England’s Orpheus and ranks alongside the greatest of this country’s composers.  His rise to the position of Organist of Westminster Abbey at the age of 20 saw him lauded above the talents of his predecessor\, John Blow and his teacher\, Pelham Humfrey\, both of whose music we will hear in order to place Purcell in context. His family home was just round the corner from the Abbey and for a while he turned his back on the theatre music he had been pursuing to focus on this job. \nAs a countertenor Patrick has had the joy of singing much of Purcell’s solo music and will be delighted to share this colourful period in our country’s history. Including music by Gibbons and Croft\, Patrick will trace some of the most influential names in the musical heritage of Westminster Abbey and guide us through this extraordinary building. \nPlease book below.
URL:https://memf.org.uk/event/purcell-and-the-music-of-westminster-abbey-with-patrick-craig/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210703T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210703T120000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Celebration with Robert Hollingworth
DESCRIPTION:What a strange 16 months it has been.  How we have all adapted to keeping early music and musicians going as best we can\, has been quite amazing at times.  To celebrate this\, we are finishing our season before our traditional summer break as we started\, with Robert Hollingworth and a MEMF zoom workshop.  Who knows what we will come back to in the Autumn – still zooming\, live workshops?  At present we just don’t know but we are going to sign off in style. \nThe session will start with a short chat between Robert and MEMF chair Nancy about how\, in April 2020\,  they started things off\, how difficult it was coping with the new technology we suddenly had to use and the pitfalls that beset the first sessions as we dipped our toes into the world of zoom\, mute. etc –  and who can forget the arguments over chat…. \nThen we are asking you to vote for some of your favourite MEMF zoom workshops and the Saturday morning EXTRA sessions.  To help you choose there will be a list of all the Zoom sessions we have hosted  and there will be voting buttons on the Jotform for you to fill in.   You will hear a clip from the most popular ones during the session. \n  \nPlease book below.
URL:https://memf.org.uk/event/zoom-celebration-with-robert-hollingworth/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220123T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220123T210000
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SUMMARY:Jean Maillard - International Man of Mystery with Tutor Rory McCleery
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn view of the recent alarming rise in Covid cases we felt it sensible to cancel our  live workshop with Rory McCleery at the beginning of January and have this Zoom session instead\, which Rory is happy to do. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDespite his being identified as ‘one of the most important French composers of the sixteenth century’ by the renowned Musicologist François Lesure nearly half a century ago\, Jean Maillard is a figure who remains shrouded in mystery and whose works have rarely been performed in modern times. This contrasts sharply with his reception during his own lifetime: his works were widely disseminated and survive in manuscripts and prints originating in Germany\, France\, Poland\, the Czech Republic\, Italy\, Switzerland\, Belgium and the UK. Telling also is the number of composers who modelled their own compositions on works by Maillard: this list includes fellow Frenchman Goudimel and also such luminaries as Orlando Lassus\, Jacob Handl and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It is possible that Maillard harboured Protestant sympathies which may have resulted in his exclusion from the circles of the Catholic royal court in Paris\, and even\, like his fellow composer Claude Goudimel\, his death in the 1572 St Bartholomew’s Day massacres. \nThe session will last around 2 hours in all –  45 minutes then a 15 minute tea break with another 45 minutes and time for questions. \nWe shall be singing:\nPierre Cadeac    Je suis desheritee\nJean Maillard    Agnus Dei\nJean Maillard     Fratres mei elongaverunt\nJean Maillard     Omnes gentes attendite\nJean Maillard     Ascendo ad Patrem meum\nJean Maillard     In me transierunt\nJean Maillard     Gaudent in caelis \nPlease book below. As usual all donations will go directly to Rory so please donate what you can.
URL:https://memf.org.uk/event/jean-maillard-international-man-of-mystery-with-rory-mccleery/
LOCATION:Online(Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Online
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