EMGO Events

Upcoming Oregon Early Music Events

For more information write to neuman@emgo.org.

The Viola da Gamba Society of America's 48th annual conclave (2010) entitled: Sweet Discourse - The Musical Art of Give & Take. Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, July 25th - August 1
Viola da gamba society's website: vdgsa.org link to the conclave page:
http://vdgsa.org/pgs/conclave-2010/conclave2010.shtml

Beginning Viol: Intended as a community outreach, this class is offered free to local residents and to guests of Conclave registrants. The class emphasizes technique, practice habits, and goals for the coming year. Instruments will be available free of charge. The class will meet Monday through Saturday. For more information about the workshop and concerts, contact Sarah Mead, email: Sarah Mead.

Paean - Music of Ancient Greece: Ensemble De Organographia will perform pieces from surviving notated Greek repertoire (c. 500 BC to 300 AD) on voice and period instruments including kithara, lyre, aulos, syrinx monokalamos, trichordon, kroupezon, psithyra, salpinx, tympanon, and others. Musicians are Gayle and Philip Neuman, who recorded the CD "Music of the Ancient Greeks", now in its eigth pressing. The Neumans have performed this repertoire at the Smithsonian, the Getty Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, and at various other venues in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, Israel, Turkey, and Greece. This is part of the fall festival of Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon. Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7pm, Eliot Hall Chapel, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

The Oregon Renaissance Band will perform a Christmas concert in both Hillsboro and Portland this coming season. Thursday, December 23, 2010, 8pm, at the Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E. Main, Hillsboro. Sunday, December 26, 2010, 3pm AND 7:30pm, at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis, Portland. 13 musicians will perform early Christmas music from around the world on voices, recorders, violin, lute, harp, sackbutts, crumhorn, rackett, tartold, cornamuse, octave spinet harpsichord, tabor, triangle and bell.

Highly recommended book for anyone wishing to sort out the usage and history of early tunings and temperaments: "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why you should care)" by Ross Duffin of Case Western Reserve University from W.W. Norton & Co. It is an entertaining treatment of the subject written with humor and great expertise. Illustrations by Philip Neuman are included.