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The account for the Viola da Gamba Society UK

United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2020
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Viola da Gamba Society
Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
AND on November 4th, there'll be a VdGS zoom with the strict Peter Wendland, who was given his first viol aged two, on how to improve string crossing.   He calls it Back to Basics, and asks everyone to have a viol (any size, tuned in 415 hz) to hand to join with his exercises!
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
Tomorrow VdGS members meet at Blackheath. A talk on music manuscripts in the British Library will be replaced by Jo Levine & Esha Neogy leading dialogue & discussion between panel and players on PRACTISING. That's important for a quite different audience, non-musicologists maybe
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
@badgerlyminge I think you're right about Abel as teacher. And it could well have been Johann Christian Bach and Thomas Linley who played with them. It seems he owned two Barak Normans as well as the Jayes.
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Paddy Fraser
Paddy Fraser@badgerlyminge·
@gamba_viola Didn't Abel teach Gainsborough to play the viol? I've forgotten who the other two are who played in the same group. "My comfort is I have three Jayes and a ?"
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
Richard Boothby looks at the Drexel MS during a VdG Soc. zoom Thursday 18th Sept. 7pm (UK time), a product of the relationship of composer Karl Friedrich Abel with one our greatest portraitists Thomas Gainsborough. Both were brilliant players... a zoom for painters & violists?
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
@westonconcerts @PiattiQuartet So sad: a last concert due to the combined forces of Covid and, what you've politely described as, new financial constraints. Keeping Chamber Music Live is what a new Fund (with grants to venues & promoters) is aiming to do.....
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Weston Music Society
Weston Music Society@westonconcerts·
Our final concert to be performed on Sunday 12 October at 3pm by @PiattiQuartet is open for booking. Should be a sell-out celebration as we bid you all thank you and farewell.
Weston Music Society tweet media
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Jonathan Dunford
Jonathan Dunford@stecolombe·
🎶 A musical journey... straight from Paris! 🇫🇷✨ I’m excited to share with you a playlist of pieces recorded on historical French viols, all performed right here in Paris 🎻🏰 👉 Listen here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5diTk…
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
'Take your consort playing up a notch' is the next VdGS zoom. Monday July 7 at 7pm, Joanna Levine of Fretwork shares ideas to help you play with greater colour and expression.  She'll talk through exercises aimed at greater control over the bow, adding a few for the left hand.
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
May 6: Viola da Gamba Soc. triumph. Alison Crum looking at phrases & rhythmic patterns in Gibbon's fantasias was life-enhancing. Her playing of three viols was inspirational for 44 members across the globe. Years of experience shared with verbal and musical precision.
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
They're an interesting and varied group of musicians. Their concert @KLFestival last year centred around the European travels of the famous mid-18th century King's Lynn resident and organist at its Minster, Charles Burney. Their CD, 'Musical Wanderlust' is also a joy.
Kirckman Concerts@KirckmanCS

This spring Kirckman artists Apollo’s Cabinet are touring Europe with their programme inspired by the travels of 18th Century musician and music historian Charles Burney. More details here: apolloscabinet.com/diary

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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
It'll be a brilliant VdGS zoom on May 6 at 7pm. Alison Crum celebrates 400 years since Gibbons' death by looking closely at phrases & rhythmic patterns of his consort music. Members playing extracts of fantasias will learn how bowing must enhance the music, as can fingering.
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Andrew Mellor
Andrew Mellor@operalastnight·
The crisis facing musicology degrees is down to their commandeering and misrepresentation. This used to be the most challenging degree in the humanities: science, art, language, physical technique. It should never be a soft option. February's Long View classical-music.uk/opinion/articl…
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
Really interesting zoom hearing 2 gamba consorts, each player making good sound, trained by Pedro Funes Whittington. Competitive Texan life is set aside as consort players have equal voices! @wadejacqui, teacher of young consorts 1998 to 2016 described Pedro as a miracle worker!
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
Next VdGs lecture on 10 Feb at 7pm. Pedro Funes-Whittington presents"Viols Blooming in Texas", featuring students on his pioneering viola da gamba program. Age 12-14 kids performed at the prestigious Boston Early Music Festival in 2017, 19, 21 & 23. Witness talent & dedication!
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
Nicholas Kleinman’s recent VdGS talk was fascinating, revealing many pieces, even for solo viols, using the fugal process to create special textures. Hoeffler and Dollé should become better known composers! Nobody asked a question. Do they already have in-depth fugal knowledge?
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Viola da Gamba Society@gamba_viola·
@Baerenreiter it's a public site you have to join up to, then (in one of 5 languages) you get, daily, selected bits of newspapers from the whole of Europe, also Turkey & Russia..... fascinating.
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Barenreiter
Barenreiter@Baerenreiter·
A question to all of you fleeing over to where the skies are allegedly bluer. Is this also becoming a home for the orchestras, opera houses, music colleges etc? At the point when professional accounts start moving over to a new home we need to think where we are heading
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