Pennsic musics
Wed Jul 6 01:56:58 EDT 2016
I've been looking at the Thing (Pennsic Univ Class Schedule), and I see that 30 min before the choirs concert there's a recorder-consort concert. And searching through the related entries for that I find 3 classes/practice sessions each for the Known World Recorder Ensemble Rehearsal (ages 12 and up) and the Collegium Musicus (not for beginners). This takes away a lot of time from other possible classes. (Keep in mind I already have rehearsals for the Known World Choir and Chorulus Pennsicus.) This is very much right up my alley, although I'm usually involved with the choirs warm-ups in that same half-hour before the KWC concert. There's also a Recorder Jam! for all comers, a 15th/16th-century consort session (intermediate and above), and several classes to draw recorder players to the dark side of crumhorns and such. (The louds/buzzies seem to conflict with the KWC rehearsals, though.) And there's the Mass Project, which is hoping to have something singable for the concert too. (It's likely to pick something I already know; between the Princeton Univ Chamber Choir, the PU Early Music Ensemble/Musica Alta, the Ad Hoc Singers, and Musica Antiqua, I've sung a lot of early masses.)
I don't see the Pilgrimage Project on the schedule. I hope that's back, because I had a lot of fun with it last year, and now I have the tunes in my head. (Earworm-level in my head.) I was getting a lot of transposing practice on them last year, as well as stumbling through totally unfamiliar texts, sometimes in Catalan. Walking the grounds singing in a group was really special (and fun), and very much appreciated by many of the people we met. Music needs to be taken out of the "concert hall tent". In period, of course, everyone would have been seriously devoted; a pilgrimage was arduous, not a vacation - but I'm sure they still would have welcomed opportunites to liven things up.
And the Madrigal Jam - that also has a couple of rehearsals, but the "performance" isn't really for the audience. ☺
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I've been looking at the Thing (Pennsic Univ Class Schedule), and I see that 30 min before the choirs concert there's a recorder-consort concert. And searching through the related entries for that I find 3 classes/practice sessions each for the Known World Recorder Ensemble Rehearsal (ages 12 and up) and the Collegium Musicus (not for beginners). This takes away a lot of time from other possible classes. (Keep in mind I already have rehearsals for the Known World Choir and Chorulus Pennsicus.) This is very much right up my alley, although I'm usually involved with the choirs warm-ups in that same half-hour before the KWC concert. There's also a Recorder Jam! for all comers, a 15th/16th-century consort session (intermediate and above), and several classes to draw recorder players to the dark side of crumhorns and such. (The louds/buzzies seem to conflict with the KWC rehearsals, though.) And there's the Mass Project, which is hoping to have something singable for the concert too. (It's likely to pick something I already know; between the Princeton Univ Chamber Choir, the PU Early Music Ensemble/Musica Alta, the Ad Hoc Singers, and Musica Antiqua, I've sung a lot of early masses.)
I don't see the Pilgrimage Project on the schedule. I hope that's back, because I had a lot of fun with it last year, and now I have the tunes in my head. (Earworm-level in my head.) I was getting a lot of transposing practice on them last year, as well as stumbling through totally unfamiliar texts, sometimes in Catalan. Walking the grounds singing in a group was really special (and fun), and very much appreciated by many of the people we met. Music needs to be taken out of the "concert hall tent". In period, of course, everyone would have been seriously devoted; a pilgrimage was arduous, not a vacation - but I'm sure they still would have welcomed opportunites to liven things up.
And the Madrigal Jam - that also has a couple of rehearsals, but the "performance" isn't really for the audience. ☺
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/821705.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]