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Announcing a solo recital and a master class:
The Annual McFarlane Weekend Lute Seminar of DC
in cooperation with
The Washington Conservatory of Music
present
UNCHARTED WATERS: NEW AND ANCIENT MUSIC FOR LUTE
Ronn McFarlane, lutenist/composer
Friday, May 19, 8:00 PM
Admission: $15
LUTE SONG MASTER CLASS (followed by an open demo-rehearsal)
for singers and lutenists (classical guitarists also welcome)
with Barbara Hollinshead and Ronn McFarlane
Saturday, May 20, 10:00 AM
Performers: (2 spaces left) $25, Auditors: $15
Location:
Briggs Memorial Baptist Church, Founders Hall (side entrance)
5144 Mass Ave., Bethesda (near Westmoreland Circle)
call: 202-244 4765
for reservations
for info about the concert or the master class,
for info about the Weekend Lute Seminar (May 19-21).
About Ronn McFarlane:
One of the most outstanding lutenists performing today, Ronn McFarlane is
largely responsible for bringing the lute into the musical mainstream and
making
it accessible to a larger audience. He has toured extensively throughout the
United States, Canada and Europe both with the Baltimore Consort and as a
soloist. He has made numerous recordings, including one with his own works
which
will be released soon. Ronn McFarlane is an enthusiastic and sought-after
teacher of the lute and lute-related subjects. From 1984 until 1995 he was a
faculty member of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where he taught
Lute, Lute Tablature and Repertoire, and Lute History. This is his seventh
year
teaching the Annual McFarlane Weekend Seminar in Washington, DC.
The American Record Guild says of him: "...Inimitable clarity, tone, grace,
wit and phrasing culminate in Renaissance lute playing at its very, very
finest." Like the music written by lutenist/composers of the Renaissance, Ronn
McFarlane's original compositions for lute tread the borderline between
popular,
folk and classical music. Some drawing heavily from Renaissance and Baroque
styles, while others are written in a completely modern musical language.
About Barbara Hollinshead:
Mezzo-soprano Barbara Hollinshead, professor of Voice at American University,
is one of the Washington, DC, area's finest and best-loved early music
singers, who has taught numerous master classes on both Renaissance and
Baroque-style singing. She performs recitals of lute songs accompanied by
Howard Ba
ss,
with whom she has also recorded. She has performed frequently with the Folger
Consort, La Rondinella, Washington Chamber Symphony, and Washington Bach
Consort, as well as having appeared with Tafelmusik, Chatham Baroque, Opera
Lafayette, the Four Nations Ensemble, and The New York Collegium, Recent solo
performances have taken her from New York and Boston to Venice and Vicenza in
Italy
,
and have covered works ranging from medieval Byzantine chant to 20th-century
song cycles.
The Washington Post has described Barbara's singing as =E2=80=9Cprecise in
pitch,
varied in color as the occasion requires, agile in the ornaments intrinsic to
baroque music and deeply expressive of intense, conflicting emotions."
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