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Amherst Early Music Festival, 2010

Pictures from Amherst

By Laura Conrad | Published: August 8, 2010
It was a pretty busy week, and I only had the little camera, so I couldn't do the butterflies, and I was usually carrying too much to make it easy to stop and take pictures. But here's what I got. Marker putti This statue was how to identify the building a lot of the classes [...]
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Excerpt from the Amherst Evaluation Form

By Laura Conrad | Published: August 7, 2010
I didn't wrap up the Amherst experience because I was busy writing the evaluation form. And by the time I was through with that there were other things I wanted to think about. But I did promise to let you know how it turned out. You'll be glad to know that the Saturday concert was [...]
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Amherst Baroque Soloists

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 16, 2010
I don't want you to think that all we do here at Amherst is take classes in the daytime and complain about them at night. Every night there's some kind of performance, with opportunities for playing or singing or dancing before and after. Yesterday it was a concert by the faculty of the Baroque Academy. [...]
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Too good to be true

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 14, 2010
They reorganized all the loud wind classes on Monday night, and threw me (and a number of other people) out of them. I shouldn't have been surprised -- I know someone who flew from Massachusetts to San Francisco to take a cornetto class and they cancelled it without telling her because not enough people signed [...]
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Classes have met

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 13, 2010
And they all seem to be pretty good. Cornetto technique with Stephen Escher We did a lot of talking and not much playing yesterday, but the talking was to the point. We went around the room and talked about how and why we got into cornetto playing, and each played single notes and talked about [...]
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I have arrived

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 11, 2010
Budget dorm room at Amherst At the Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. The dorm room is a bit spartan -- no mirror on the wall, no hangars in the closet, no wastebasket. There are two power outlets and an ethernet connection, but the ethernet connection is 10 feet from [...]
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Going to Amherst

By Laura Conrad | Published: July 3, 2010
Or, less colloquially, The Amherst Early Music Festival, which this year takes place at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. The reason to go is because I hope it will be an opportunity to play brass several hours a day, and get my lip closer to the kind of shape the people who played in [...]
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