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Friday-Sunday
June 1-10
BACHanalia
This 10-day retreat offers audiences and students alike the
opportunity to explore and deepen their understanding of the
foundations of western music and baroque practice.
Concerts and films will be presented
at PS/21; talks, most master classes and symposia will be held
at the Spencertown
Academy. There will be 2 public concerts each weekend, and
mid-week, free “taste of baroque” mini-recitals,
open master classes, films related to the world of the baroque,
and improvisation sessions bridging the baroque and jazz.
June
1 Friday
- 4:00 - 6:00pm
Lionel Party and La Mela di Newton: “Perspectives: Baroque Basics, What’s
Authentic, What’s Not: Having It Both Ways”
(Orientation
for participants and auditors – public invited)
at The Tent
June
2 Saturday
-11:30am - 1:00pm
Masterclass with Yehuda Hanani: “The Universal Bach” – Transcriptions
(on guitar, viola, keyboard, voice)
at the Tent
June
2 Saturday
- 8:00pm
Perspectives: Baroque
Mix
Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata #3
Vivaldi Sonata for Cello & Harpsichord
Purcell & Handel arias & cantatas
Jesse Levine, viola
Yehuda Hanani, cello
Michele Levin, piano
Michael Chertock, piano
Lionel Party, harpsichord
Arti Dixson, percussion
Don Miller, double bass
Lucille Beer, mezzo-soprano
June
3 Sunday
- 10:30am - 12:30pm
Masterclass: Arti Dixson & Don Miller – Jazz
Masters: “Spins-offs
and Improvisations”
at The Tent
June
3 Sunday
- 2:00pm
Bach to
Bolling
/Toccatas, Fugues and Jazz Riffs
Baroque
improvisation
Frescobaldi Tre Canzone à due
Mendelssohn Variation Serieuses
Bach Toccata
Vocal selections
Claude Bolling Suite for
Cello & Jazz
Piano Trio
La Mela di Newton, baroque ensemble
Michele Levin, piano
Yehuda Hanani, cello
Lucille Beer, mezzo-soprano
Michael Chertock, piano
Arti Dixson, percussion
Don Miller, double bass
4:30pm Members’ reception at The Tent
5:30pm
Young Artist Performance: “Taste of Baroque I”
at The Tent
June
4 Monday - 11:30am - 1:00pm
“Baroque and Otherwise”
Prelude Masterclass with Michael Chertock
at the Spencertown Academy
8 PM
Concert: “Baroque and Otherwise”
Michael Chertock & Friends
at The Tent
Program of Tango, Baroque keyboard works, and Jazz Vocals
with Yehuda Hanani, Diego Fainguersch, Ira Givrol, cellos; Jonathan Keren, violin;
Lionel Party, harpsichord; Lucille Beer, Mezzo- soprano; Katya Janpoladyan and
Polina Bespalko (Schnittke)
June 5 Tuesday - 11:30am -1:00pm
Master Class with Jesse Levine: “The Well-Tempered Viola—Hearing
Inner Voices”
at the Spencertown Academy
8:00pm
Student Performance: “Taste of Baroque II”
at The Tent
8:30pm
Film: "Tous les matins du Monde"
The life of composer Marin Marais. Will delight fans of great film and
lush music at The Tent (Introduced by George Minkoff)
June 7 Thursday - 2:00pm
Masterclass: La Mela di Newton; and Talk: “Bach and Hindemith”
at the Spencertown Academy
8:00pm
Young Artist Performance: “Taste of Baroque III”
at The Tent
8:30pm
Film: “Farinelli” (1994) Life of the castrato, Carlo Broschi, known
as Farinelli, one of the most famous Italian soprano castrato singers of the
18th century. He enjoyed a quasi-mythical status, even in his own life-time
due to his exceptional voice and androgynous beauty. Rated R.
at The Tent (Introduced by George Minkoff)
June 8 Friday - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Masterclass and Book Signing: "Violin Dreams" with Arnold Steinhardt
Interpreting J.S. Bach's Chaconne, the most moving but inscrutable of all violin
solos
at the Spencertown Academy
8:00pm
Concert: “Cellobration”
A fin-de-festival frolic, Bach to Bebop with Young Artists and Guest Artists
at The Tent
June 9 Saturday - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Masterclass with Yehuda Hanani
"Bach's Cello Suites are blueprints for cellists of all generations." They
will be approached with a structural and harmonic analysis, with poetic allusions
to literature, mythology, philosophy, art, nature, and life – combining a
scholarly and a passionately personal relationship with the music.
at The Tent
June
9 Saturday
- 8:00pm
2nd
Annual
PAUL GRUNBERG
MEMORIAL BACH CONCERT
Reger Unaccompanied Suite for Viola
Bach Unaccompanied Suite No. 1
Jesse Levine, viola
Gee Yun, viola
Diego Fainguersch, cello
Katja Jampoladyan, cello
Michael Ronstadt, cello
Yehuda Hanani, cello
La Mela di Newton, baroque ensemble
June
10 Sunday - 12:00pm
Young Artist Performance: “Wall to Wall Baroque”
at The Tent (Free)
June
10 Sunday
- 2:00pm
GOING FOR
BAROQUE
Closing Celebration
Wide-ranging
selections from the Baroque including
works by Marini, Uccellini, Castello,
Handel, Rameau , Leclair, and Boismortier,
with the brilliant authentic instrument
ensemble Le Mela di Newton
at The Tent
La Mela di Newton, baroque ensemble
Jonathan Keren, violin
Ira Givol, cello
Lionel Party, harpsichord
Master
Classes for pre-registered advanced students are also
open for public audience. Tickets for the Master Classes
and the Films and concerts can be purchased at the door.
A pass to all 21 Bachanalia events can be purchased in
advance for a $100 member, $120 non-member.
Tickets for the classes may be purchased at the door. The ticket price is $8.00
for members of PS/21 and the Spencertown Academy and $10.00 for others.
For more information on Bachanalia and other events at PS/21 go to our
website
at www.ps21chatham.org or contact: Nancy Kohler at 518-391-6121.
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