EMGO Events

Upcoming Oregon Early Music Events

For more information write to neuman@emgo.org.

Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat: April 2 - 5, 2010. Held at Menucha Retreat Center. Faculty: Vicki Boeckman, Rotem Gilbert, Gayle and Phil Neuman. For more information visit: http://home.comcast.net/%7Epdxrecorders/

Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit: “The Harmonious Craft” held the weekend of April 24 and 25, noon to 5pm each day, at Marylhurst University. The Marylhurst Music Department and the Early Music Guild of Oregon are cosponsoring this event. For more information see www.nwmusicalinstrumentshow.org.

Music from the Time of John Adams: Ensemble De Organographia - Gayle and Philip Neuman, along with Hideki Yamaya, will be performing American music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries on a variety of period instruments and voice. This is part of the opening events surrounding the John Adams Exhibit at the Central Library in Portland. Music by John Hewitt, William Billings, Edward Riley, and others will be performed on flageolets, czakan (walking stick recorder), early guitar, sausage bassoon, serpent, violin, and viola. Included will be "Adams and Liberty", "New Yankee Doodle", "Celebration March", pieces from the "Czakan Schule", "Chester", and many others. Sunday, June 27, 2010, 1pm at the Central Library in downtown Portland.

Look for the book by Ross Duffin, "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why you should care)" from W.W. Norton & Co. It's a wonderful treatment of the history of tuning systems written with humor and great expertise, and it includes some illustrations by Philip Neuman.

Oregon Renaissance Band performs a concert entitled "Early Music of Scandinavia" with music by Dowland, Brade, Borchgrevinck, Pederson, Schattenberg, Terkelsen, Willaert, and others, performed on voices, recorders, violin, lute, harp, sackbuts, double reeds, octave spinet harpsichord, tabor, triangle and bell. Music from the Danish court of Christian IV is featured, and the program includes the oldest example of Norwegian renaissance polyphony, "Cor mundum" by Caspar Ecchienus, whose name is thought to be the Latinized form of Ormestad. Also included on the program is the strange story and music of the "Netherworldly Outdoor Concert" related by Heinrich Meyer of Bergen in 1695, which is considered the oldest surviving notated example of Norwegian folk music. The group also sings the Swedish warrior psalm "Förfäras ej", as well as several spring songs from Piae Cantiones, including "Tempus adest floridum" which later provided the tune for "Good King Wenceslas". If you would like to sponsor a concert of this unique repertoire please contact neuman@emgo.org.