Madison has an excellent early music festival that includes a number of concerts by major early music groups plus a week of classes taught by the members of the performing groups. I attended a couple of years ago (it drew over 100 students) and enjoyed it immensely. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially if you are interested in ensemble work or play other instruments as well as lute (it tends to be light on stuff for solo lute, but I'm also an early brass musician).
Guy -----Original Message----- From: Eugene C. Braig IV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 5:31 AM To: Daniel F Heiman; [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: Extravaganza (OT) This is a fine tale and thank you for it, Daniel. However, the whole of the US's creamy center isn't necessarily that desert-like (or dessert-like). Consider Indiana U. and their early-music festival in Bloomington, IN. Here in Columbus, OH, we have a thriving, obscenely well-attended early-music concert series. Cleveland has a successful baroque orchestra and tends to host the LSA convention every other year. Etc. Best, Eugene At 02:10 AM 4/18/2008, Daniel F Heiman wrote: >The center part of the US tends to be an early music desert compared to >either of the coasts, but lately the Chicago area has begun to perk up a >bit, with a few more local musicians putting on relatively high-quality >performances. In addition, there are sometimes outreach events designed >to engage young people and the general public. I participated in >something last Sunday that, while not superb musically, was still just a >lot of fun to do. Pictures here: >http://earlymusichicago.org/photoalbum_MICEarlyMusicExtravaganzaApril2008 >.htm >Some of you who attend LSA Seminars will recognize a singer.at the center >of the group in the second picture from the right in the top row. > >Daniel Heiman To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
