past workshop

Here is a list of all past VdGS-NE Workshops

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10-23-1976   First Gathering

4-30-1977     Second Gathering

11-9-1977      Third Gathering

4-6-1978       Concert (14th Century) and Workshop (Elizabethan Enterprise)

11-4-1978      Apt for Voices and Viols

3-24-1979     Music of England and Scotland (New York Consort of Viols)

11-3-1979      16th & 17th Century Music from Italy

3-29-1980    Jenkins Concert and Workshop

11-15-1980    Old English Favorites

3-22-1981     Kuijken Masterclass

11-7-1981      Byrd Consort Songs and Viol Consorts

4-24-1982    Many Voices of the Viol Concert and Workshop (New York Consort)

10-9-1982    Lawes Concert and Workshop

4-9-1983      Concert and Workshop (Les Filles de Ste Colombe)

10-1-1993     Michael East Workshop (Mead)

11-1983         Savall Masterclass

2-18-1984     Concert and Workshop (Boston Viol Consort)

4-1-1984       Concert and Workshop (Swanne Alley)

11-3-1984     Franco-Flemish Tradition Concert and Workshop (with ARS)

2-2-1985       Bach and his Predecessors (Jeppesen)

4-20-1985    Unsung Songs, Undanced Dances (Feldman)

11-1-1985      Art of the Chromatic Scale, or the Expressive Half Step (Feldman)

2-28, 3-1-1986     16th Century Music for Viols, Concert and Workshop (Boston Viol Consort)

5-17-1986      Mr. John Coperario alias Cooper (Stowe)

11-14 &15-1986     The Baroque Viol Consort: Music from England and Italy (Fayrfax Consort)

3-14-1987      The Rhetorical Tradition in Italian Music and its Appearance in English Fantasias       (Les Filles de Ste Colombe)

5-9-1987       The In Nomine Fantasia from Taverner to Purcell (30 participants, including 6 coaches)

11-14-1987    The Viol Consort Music of Orlando Gibbons

2-20-1988    Concert and Workshop (New York Consort and Boston Viol Consort)

5-7-1988       Music at the Court of Charles I, William Lawes and his Contemporaries

10-29,30-1988    The Unbroken Consort: the Search for an Ensemble Sound (Mead)                                (24 participants, including 5 coaches)

3-5-1989      Focus on Jenkins (1592-1678): a comparison with Composers of His Century (Feldman) (56 participants, including 9 coaches)

5-6-1989      Music from the Glogauer Liederbuch (J. & E. Haas) (38 participants, including 8 coaches)

11-11-1989    Have it your way (Mead) (43 participants, including 7 coaches)

2-24-1990    Consort Music of John Dowland and Anthony Holborne (Crum)                                              (45 participants, including 10 coaches & lutenists)

5-5-1990       Consort Songs (Hershey) (38 participants, including 12 coaches & singers)

10-20-1990  Apt for Viols (or Voyces) (Morley & Mead) (42 participants, 7 coaches)

2-9-1991       Duet Literature for Viols (Panofsky & Hutchinson) (36 participants, including 7 coaches)

4-13-1991      17th Century Italian Music for Viols (Lewis & Henriksen)                                                            (34 participants, including 5 coaches)

10-5&6-1991   Illicita Cosa Concert and Workshop (New York Consort of Viols)                                         (25 participants, including 5 coaches)

2-8-1992         Have it Your Way (Mead) (55 participants, including 9 coaches)

4-11-1992        Lessons of the Dance Master (Douglass & Castellano) (24 participants, including 5 coaches)

11-22-1992      Elements of Style for Viol Players (Chancey & Hershey)

2-20-1993       Newly Reconstructed Verse Anthems and Viol Consort Music of Orlando Gibbons (Panofsky and Boorman)

4-17-1993         Ferrabosco Workshop (Bellingham) (33 participants, including 7 coaches)

10-17-1993       Consort Songs (Hargis) (42 participants, including 8 coaches)

2-12-1994         Music from the Tregian Manuscript (Crum) (60 participants, including 9 coaches)

5-7-1994           Have it Your Way (Mead) (41 participants, including 7 coaches)

10-16-1994       Exploring the Antipodes (Chancey & Hershey) (51 participants, including 6 coaches)

2-11-1995          Seventeenth Century German Choral Music with Viol Accompaniment and Instrumental Consorts (Panofsky and Boorman) (45 participants, including 7 coaches)

4-29-1995         Jenkins Fest (Bardo) (49 participants, including 7 coaches)

10-28-1995       Renaissance Dance Classes for Viol Players and Consorts with Dance-Related Topics (Panofsky and Olsson) (35 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-21-1996         Adventurous Music Old and New for Viol Consort (Davidoff and Hershey)                      (37 participants, including 6 coaches)

4-21-1996         Spring for-Ward, an In-Depth Look at the New Editions of John Ward’s 5 & 6 part Consort Music (Hunter) (34 participants, including 6 coaches)

11-9-1996          Have it Your Way (Tetenbaum) (56 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-26-1997          If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree (Panofsky and Ballard)                                                          (31 participants, including 5 coaches)

4-13-1997         Music of 16th and 17th Century France (Hershey) (43 participants, including 7 coaches)

11-16-1997        Viol Styles in English Consort Music (Bellingham) (37 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-16-1998         275 Years of German Music with Viols (Bardo) (34 participants, including 5 coaches)

4-5-1998          Rex Splendens: Viols at the Court of Christian IV (Lewis and Henriksen)                         (30 participants, including 5 coaches)

11-7-1998        The Classical Viol (Hutchinson) (26 participants, including 5 coaches)

2-7-1999         The In Nomine from Taverner to Purcell and Beyond (Crum)                                                  (42 participants, including 5 coaches)

4-10-1999          A Menagerie of English Composers (Panofsky and Ballard)                                                   (40 participants, including 6 coaches)

10-9-1999          Spain and the New World (Chancey) (44 participants, including 5 coaches)

1-15-2000          Celestial Witchcraft : the Private Music of Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales (Gillespie) (45 participants, including 6 coaches)

5-6-2000          The Inner Voice (Lipnik & Twombly) (30 participants, including 4 coaches)

10-21-2000       Bigger is better (Eric Haas) (48 participants, including 5 coaches)

2-03-2001          Jenkins and more Jenkins (Bardo) (60 participants, including 9 coaches)

5-0 6-2001          Coprario to Purcell (Mead) (48 participants, including 8 coaches)

10-28-2001        Apt for Voyces and Vialls (Bryan and Crum) (32 participants, including 5 coaches)

1-19-2002           Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Play-in (31 participants, including 2 coaches)

5-11-2002           Burn or Freeze! Italians and Pseudo-Italians (Gutiérrez)                                                       (35 participants, including 6 coaches)

10-26-2002         The Humour of Musick (Hershey) (35 participants, including 6 coaches)

2-09-2003          High Tea with the English T’s: Taverner, Tallis, and Tye (Stowe)                                        (39 participants, including 7 coaches)

4-19-2003          Lust hab ich ghabt zuer Musica (Pappano) (28 participants, including 5 coaches)

10-25-2003           Orlando was his Name: Consorts, Madrigals and Anthems of Orlando Gibbons (Jodry and Gutièrrez) (49 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-25-2004          The Hexachord: A Musical Building Block (Mead) (38 participants, including 7 coaches)

5-01-2004         Burgundy and Beyond: Music of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries (Davidoff)               (32 participants, including 6 coaches)

10-18-2004          Masterclass with Fretwork (Boothby, Campbell, Hunt)

1-22-2005          Viol Maintenance Workshop (Tourin)

2-12-2005          Lecture/Demonstration with Les Voix Humaines (Napper, Little)

5-07-2005          Basic English (Gutierrez) (36 participants, including 7 coaches)

10-15-2005           Dancing on the Viol (Bardo) (34 participants, including 6 coaches)

01-28-2006          Finding Your Voice on the Viol (Hershey)                                                                                     (61 participants, including 7 coaches and ca 10 singers)

05-13-2006          Divide and Conquer (Twombly and Tourin) (35 participants, including 8 coaches)

11-04-2006           A Society of Musick (Davidsons) (34 participants, including 6 coaches)

01-20-2007          Joining Forces (Mead, Greg and Kris Ingles) (40 participants, including 6 coaches)

05-12-2007          Once More, with Lyrics (Hutchinson) (25 participants, including 5 coaches, 1 singer)

11-10-2007           Ole! Spanish Music of the Old and New World (Gutiérrez)                                                   (28 participants, including 5 coaches)

01-12-2008          Jenkins Jam (Hershey) (58 participants, including 10 coaches)

05-03-2008         Surprising Contemporaries (Bardo) (34 participants, including 5 coaches)

10-19-2008          Teacher’s Choice (Mead & Stowe) (34 participants, including 6 coaches)

02-15-2009          Intro to Impro (Chancey & Ludwig) (14 participants, including 2 coaches)

05-02-2009         Byrd in his Time (Gillespie) (36 participants, including 5 2/3 coaches)

09-19-2009          Wellesley: Bridging the Centuries (Jeppesen and Gillespie)                                                (43 participants, including 8 coaches and 4 student singers)

02-20-10               Music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (Alison Crum and the Rose Consort)             (41 participants, including 6 coaches)

05-08-2010          Siehe dein Vater : Music for Voices and Viols by 17th Century German Composers (Hannah Davidson and Martins Aldins) (34 participants including 5 coaches)

11-14-2010            Robert Parsons and the Elizabethan Era (Fretwork, Sarah Mead, Laura Jeppesen) (49 participants, including 8 coaches)

2-6-2011               Fed only on Aire (Quaver Consort, Lauren Ludwig, Marie Dalby, Brady Lanier, Tobi Szuts) (22 participants, including 4 coaches)

4-17-2011              The Early English Viol Enters the Court of Henry VIII (Carthage Consort, Laura Jeppesen, Jane Hershey, Emily Walhout, with Carol Lewis) (29 participants, including 4 coaches)

10-16-2011            Mirror of the World: Consort Music in Germany 1575-1650 (Carol Lewis, Chris Henriksen) (37 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-28-2012            New Old Music (Wendy Gillespie) (28 participants, including 4 coaches)

4-21-2012             Les Amours de Mai (Parthenia, Lisa Terry, Rosamund Morley, Larry Lipnik, Beverly Au) (25 participants, including 4 coaches)

10-6-2012             Six Part Consorts: Music of Lupo and Ferrabosco (Lucy Bardo, Jane Hershey, Laura Jeppesen, Carol Lewis, Sarah Mead, Anne Legêne) (39 participants, including 6 coaches)

2-16-2013             The Publishers (Roland Hutchinson, Carol Lewis, Chris Henriksen, Anne Legêne, Zoe Weiss) (29 participants, including 5 coaches)

5-4-2013               Crossing over Ibero-America (Laury Gutierrez, Camila Parias, Sarah Mead, Janet Haas) (23 participants, including 4 coaches)

11-16-2013            Articulation: Speaking Your Music (Tina Chancey, Sarah Cunningham, Laurie Monahan, John Mark Rozendaal) (32 participants, including 4 coaches)

1-12-2014              Motets (and Masses) on viols (Loren Ludwig, with Wendy Gillespie, Larry Lipnik, Zoe Weiss) (27 participants, including 4 coaches)

11-8-2014             The Dow Part Books (Jane Hershey, Hannah Davidson, Laura Jeppesen, Alice Robbins, Emily Walhout, with Michael Barrett) (44 participants including 6 coaches)

1-11-2015            The English Invasion (Pat Neely, Christien Beeuwkes, Hannah Davidson, Carol Lewis, Alice Robbins) (29 participants, including 5 coaches)

5-9-2015            Byrd on the Brain (Zoe Weiss, Ian Howell, Karen Burciaga)                                                   (18 pariticpants including 3 coaches)

11-7-2015           Gedenck-clank : the Netherlands and Spain 1568-1648 (Anne Legêne, Karen Burciaga, Jane Hershey, Michael Barrett, Daniel Meyers, Hannah Davidson)                                          (32 participants, including 6 coaches)

1-23-2016          Ballet des Dieux : Royal Consorts from Renaissance France (Carol Lewis, Chris Henriksen, Janet Haas, Sarah Mead) (20 participants, including 4 coaches)

4-23-2016          English Reactions to the Italian Madrigal (James Williamson, Pamela Dellal, Laura Jeppesen, Emily Walhout) (26 participants including 4 coaches)

9-20-2016         On the Hexachord (Wendy Gillespie, Hannah Davidson, Loren Ludwig, Sarah Mead, Jane Hershey) (30 participants including 5 coaches)

1-21-2017           The Rat Pack : Cranford, Coprario, Ives etc. (Loren Ludwig, John Mark Rozendaal, Janet Haas, Jane Hershey, Zoe Weiss) (28 participants, including 5 coaches)

4-22-2017         Getting out of Hand : Expressive Chromaticism on the Viol (Sarah Mead, Alice Robbins, Lisa Terry, Emily Walhout) (24 participants including 4 coaches)