Category Archives: bemf 07

One last event from BEMF, Saturday June 23rd. A special concert/demonstration by Paul Leenhouts and the Royal Wind Music for Boston Recorder Society at New England Conservatory. The entire double-sextet plus subcontrabass presented a varied program with introductions to the ensemble, the instruments and the individual pieces. There were demonstrations of the ranges of the [...]

As you can see, I’m still catching up on all the things I’d like to write about, and I know a lot of people who were interested in this project had even less time and internet access than I did. So if you heard things you’d like to blog about, my offer to do it [...]

This was a group of a dozen young professional recorder players who played about two dozen renaissance recorders under the baton of Paul Leenhouts. I thought it was by far the most riveting all-recorder concert I’ve ever heard. Here are some high points: * The improvisation on Boffons, where Andreas Böhlen walked out into the [...]

I didn’t go to either of these concerts, but here’s the “Boston Globe review”:http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/06/18/mozart_sonatas_sparkle_at_early_music_fest/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+A%26E+%2F+Music+-+CD+and+music+reviews%2C+news+and+clips of the Mozart recital by Kristian Bezuidenhout and Petra Müllejans, and the Sequentia concert. I did hear people in line for the 11 PM concert that night complaining about the absence of Benjamin Bagby; I agree that the Festival management should [...]

Here’s the “Boston Globe review”:http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/06/18/long_ago_and_far_away_for_young_and_old_alike/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+A%26E+%2F+Music+-+CD+and+music+reviews%2C+news+and+clips of Saturday’s Festival Concerts. This was the Purcell concert I was hoping for on Thursday night, and didn’t quite get then. My introduction to early music as something that could really sound different was hearing the Deller Consort do ??Come, come ye sons of art?? on the radio. I still [...]

This is a stub; I’ll get to it by tomorrow, I hope. Meanwhile, here’s the “Boston Globe review”:http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/06/18/long_ago_and_far_away_for_young_and_old_alike/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+A%26E+%2F+Music+-+CD+and+music+reviews%2C+news+and+clips” of Saturday night’s concerts. Leave a comment if you want to talk about this concert.

Back in December of 2005 E. Bradke wrote to a dance list: > Speaking of short bows, I had a chance to try out a baroque bow. > Fabulous for morris tunes – you can hit three strings at once if you > try, and it’s light as a feather. Off to the exhibition halls [...]

BEMF opening Gala at French Library after the opera. We started an hour before the guests were to arrive, assisting the caterer by carrying baskets of food, bowls of sauces, arranging cookies and breads. An unexpected question: “Can you arrange flowers?” Not my specialty, but for a time I cut and positioned papyrus reeds, orchids [...]

It has been said that there are three kinds of people: (1) Some people MAKE things happen, (2) Some people WATCH things happen, and (3) Some people say “WHAT HAPPENED?”! In reverse order, yes, as significant an event as this is to us, there are those who have no idea that this festival is taking [...]