Department
Photographs Orlando Consort Workshop
November
6, 2002
Howard Hanson Hall, Eastman School of Music
The
British vocal quartet The Orlando Consort—internationally renowned
as specialists in Medieval and Renaissance music—came to Rochester
in November 2002 for a concert in the Eastman School of Music’s
Kilbourn Concert Series. This lively performance featured items from
the Consort’s most recent CD “Food, Wine, and Song: Music
and Feasting in Renaissance Europe,” which comes complete with
a 42-page cookbook of recipes from the period. (We got to sample some
of these recipes at MUR 221’s Medieval Banquet in December!)
The
group graciously offered to hold a workshop the following day for anyone
interested in learning more about performing this repertory. We were
fortunate enough to schedule this session during the MUR 221 class
period, and Prof. Jennifer Brown worked with the Consort to design
a workshop tailored to the MUR 221 curriculum. In the first half of
the workshop, the quartet talked us through a chanson by Guillaume
de Machaut, explaining the challenges this music poses to the modern-day
performer. In the second half, they invited the audience onstage to
sing a motet by John Dunstable using the techniques they had just described.
Many
thanks to Andy Green and the Eastman Concert Office for arranging this
workshop!
-Dr.
Jennifer Williams Brown, MUR 221 Instructor, Fall 2002.
Photographs
courtesy of the Eastman School of Music
MUR
students Amy Gau, Kary Haddad, and Stephen Di Giovanni listen to the
presentation; ESM professor Paul O’Dette at far right, 2nd row.
Baritone
Donald Greig explains a point to MUR students Suzanne Clark and Nate
Potter.
Counter-tenor
Robert Harre-Jones directs the Dunstable motet.
Tenor Angus
Smith with MUR students Jeffrey Klein, Neil Pawlowski, and Elias-Axel
Pettersson.
Counter-tenor
Robert Harre-Jones demonstrates the virtues of early tuning systems.
Singers include MUR 221 students, Prof. Brown, and ESM professor Patrick
Macey.
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