Month: September 2012

On September 16, 2012, Guest Artists Melanie and Russell Bookout joined New Comma Baroque for their program of French Baroque music entitled “Tous les Matins du Monde: All the Mornings of the World” at Valparaiso University.

 

For a gallery of photos from the Valparaiso University performance, please click here. For a gallery of photos from the viols rehearsal at Valparaiso University, please click here. For information about Valparaiso University’s Music Program and Concerts, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music/.

For up-to-date information on this and other programs, please visit https://www.newcommabaroque.org/.

On September 14, 2012, New Comma Baroque was featured in Valparaiso University’s the Torch in a piece entitled “‘Baroque’ Puts New Spin on Classics.” covering their September program at the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts with guest artists Melanie and Russell Bookout performing on viols and lute.

“Imagine the sweet sounds of the viol playing French music from the 17th century.

Sound boring? Not quite. The musicians of New Comma Baroque are seeking to change the mindsets of music listeners by reintroducing 17th-century music and instruments with a new spin during a new series of concerts they are putting on throughout the fall and spring.”

To read the complete article from Valparaiso University’s the Torch, please click here. For more information about Valparaiso University’s The Torch, visit http://www.valpotorch.com/. For information about Valparaiso University’s Music Program and Concerts, visit http://www.valpo.edu/music/.

For up-to-date information on this and other programs, please visit https://www.newcommabaroque.org/.

On September 10, 2012, lutanist Joel Spears joined New Comma Baroque for an educational residency at Adlai E. Stevnson High School. Co-funded by the Chicago Federation of Musicians’ “Music in the Schools” program, New Comma Baroque’s classes included demonstrations on harpsichord, Baroque violin, and viols for the orchestra classes focusing on issues of instrument construction, technique, and performance practice. Gambist Phillip Serna was joined by Chicago-area lutanist Joel Spears, as guest artists in the guitar classes in the afternoon, performing medieval music for lute and vielle, viol and theorbo, as well as vihuela and German lute.

Later that evening New comma Baroque presented a community concert of French Baroque music entitled “Tous les Matins du Monde: All the Mornings of the World” featuring Marais’s Sonnerie, excerpts from his Pièces de Viole from Book I & Book IV, as well as pieces from his Pièces en trio, and François Couperin’s Les Nations.

For a gallery of photos from the day-long residency at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, please click here. For a gallery of photos from the concert at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, please click here.

For information about Adlai E. Stevenson High School, director Enrique Vilaseco & their Period Instrument Baroque Ensemble, visit http://www.d125.org/clubs_and_activities/baroque_ensemble.aspx.

For up-to-date information on this and other programs, please visit https://www.newcommabaroque.org/.