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Retrospective
The Lute Society of America Lute Festival 2006, took place Sunday, 25 June through Friday, 30 June 2006. If you attended the Lute Festival, we hope this descriptive material will help you share your enjoyment with your families and friends; if you did not attend, we hope it will encourage you to participate in LSA-sponsored events in the future.
Overview
The members of the stellar faculty are listed below (with their names linked to brief biographies), together with pictures from the courses they taught and the programs of the concerts they performed, including some photographic coverage and MP3 audio. The concert music ranged from 15th century chansons to very recent compositions. The courses covered a wide range of topics, including perspectives on lute repertory and the history of stylistic changes in many countries of Europe from the 15th century through the 18th century. Classes and private coaching were also be provided for playing technique, from beginner through advanced levels, solo or ensemble performance and accompaniment of lute songs and ballads. In addition, lectures on English lute compositions and performance practice were offered by Christopher Morrongiello. Photographic summaries of the lectures and the many other activities are also provided below.
Faculty and Course Topics
Technique- Edward Martin & Christopher Morrongiello: “Lute Basics”
- Paul O’Dette: “Renaissance Lute Master Class”
- Pat O’Brien: “Bring Your Technical and Musical Problems”
- Ronn McFarlane: “Beyond the Basics”
- Crawford Young: “Medieval & Early Renaissance Lute Intabulation Workshop”
- Catherine Liddell: “Understanding the Music of Francesco da Milano”
- Gail Gillispie: “All the Renaissance Music Theory You Need to Know”
- Toyohiko Satoh: “French Baroque Lute Music in Style Brisé”
- Robert Barto: “Baroque Lute Topics”
- Ellen Hargis & Ronn McFarlane: “Performing the Ballad”
- Paul O’Dette & Ellen Hargis: “Performing Lute Songs”
- Edward Martin & Phillip Rukavina: “Lute Duet Class”
- Douglas Freundlich & Phillip Rukavina: “Larger Ensembles – All Playing, All the Time”
- Joel van Lennep: “How to Live with a Lute – Getting more music and less misery from your instrument”
- Sunday:
- Paul O’Dette: Wie möcht ich fröhlich werden – The Lute Music of Melchior Newsidler, 4 PM
- Ronn McFarlane: The Food of Love. English, Scottish and original compositions for the lute, 8 PM
- Monday:
- The Venere Lute Quartet: Aery Entertainments. Masque music and more, 1 PM
- Crawford Young & Margit Übellacker: En doulz chastel de Pavie. Quattrocento music for gittern, lute & dulce melos, 7:30 PM
- Tuesday:
- Earl Christy: Galant Lute Music from Manuscript Sources, 1 PM
- Ellen Hargis & Paul O’Dette: La Ciaccona. Songs and dances on popular ground basses from early 17th century Italy, 7:30 PM
- Wednesday:
- Catherine Liddell: From Rostock with Love. Music in the French style from a MS living in Germany, 1 PM
- Robert Barto: A Century of German baroque lute music. Reusner, Weiss and Hagen, 7:30 PM
- Thursday:
- Duo Marchand (Andy Rutherford & Marcia Young): Wake all the dead! What ho! What ho! Songs of death and the spirit world, 1 PM
- Toyohiko Satoh: Le style brisé. Baroque lute music in the French style, 7:30 PM
- Friday:
- Duo Chambure (Edward Martin & Phillip Rukavina): Italian Duets with a French Twist, from the 16th and early 17th centuries, 1 PM
- Participants’ Recital: A very eclectic mix, as always, 7:30 PM
- Christopher Morrongiello, first holder of the Patrick O’Brien LSA Seminar Lectureship, led us through a critical assessment of the pavan form in the lute music of Daniel Batchelar and his contemporaries. A second lecture dealt with identification of the scribes involved in compiling the Chirbury MS. These lectures are based on his doctoral research in musicology. An additional lecture examined the practical significance of the table in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century musicmaking and its benefits to lute players.
Other Events and Activities
- Orientation
- Annual Meeting of the LSA
- Lute Tasting – Baroque Instruments
- Lute Tasting – Renaissance Instruments
- Bookstore
- Lute doctoring
- Free Time Activities
- Ambiance
- Ambiance II
- Farewell Party
- Departure
Organizing Committee
Dick Hoban, Nancy Carlin, Garald Farnham, Edward Martin, Phillip Rukavina and Caroline Usher
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Bob Hieronimus, Dan Shoskes, Kenneth Bé, Mike Peterson, Laura Maschi, Bob Temkin, Jineen Heiman, Betsy Small, Caroline Usher and David Schoengold for contributions of photographs used in this retrospective of the 2006 Lute Festival.
Last updated 25 November AD 2006 – DFH.
