Rudi Seitz, a Boston-area composer, has just released an album of nine canons for clavichord, performed by his collaborator Matthew McConnell.
» The album is available online here.
Friends of the BCS may contact the composer directly to receive a complimentary digital copy of this new clavichord album along with an earlier album of forty-five canons for harpsichord. Please mention “BCS – canons” in the subject line. This offer is valid through October 2019.
Voicing the Woods: Jeremy Adams, New England Instrument Maker
Cape Ann Museum,
Gloucester, Massachusetts
capeannmuseum.org
October 22, 2016 – February 26,2017
This exhibition includes a one-stop chamber organ, a demonstration organ chest,
a 1995 clavichord and a selection of harpsichords.
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance
by Peter Bavington
Published by Keyword Press 2007; ISBN 978-0-9555590-0-6
Second updated edition available from the BCS for $35,
postage included. Orders should be sent to the BCS at P.O. Box 540484, Waltham, MA 02454. Payment by check or money order.
“Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance is a long-awaited must-have book for every person owning or building a clavichord. It brings together for the first time a wealth of practical tuning information (with just enough of a theoretical basis to ground the information without complex mathematical explanations), and is richly supplied throughout with drawings, diagrams, and tables explaining everything very clearly. Written in a friendly, conversational tone, it will go far in encouraging clavichord owners to take care of their instruments rather than to shy away from the possibly onerous duties of tuning and maintenance.”
January 13 – April 5, 2014
Harvard University | Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library
C.P.E. Bach, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, became one of the most prolific and influential composers of the eighteenth century. His oeuvre encompassed virtually every musical genre of the time, except opera, and he wrote one of the most important and enduring music treatises on keyboard instruments. During his lifetime, he enjoyed a high reputation, and his music was widely distributed in print and in manuscript.
Drawing on a wealth of materials at Harvard, with a selection of important items generously lent by other institutions and individuals, Houghton Library and the Loeb Music Library are mounting complementary exhibitions to celebrate the 300th birthday of C.P.E. Bach. The Loeb Library exhibition focuses on the editorial challenges and current editorial practice behind the ongoing publication of Bach’s complete works. The Packard Humanities Institute — in cooperation with the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, the Sächsische Akademie zu Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, and Harvard University — is producing a critical edition, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, projected to run to 115 volumes, with more than half that number now in print.
The Houghton exhibition explores Bach’s intellectual and musical background by documenting the Bach family heritage, his service in the court of Frederick the Great, his interactions with authors, his important keyboard treatise, his reputation in his lifetime, his standing with his contemporaries, his later career in Hamburg, and his musical legacy.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788):
The Intellectual and Musical Life and Legacy of an Original Genius
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
January 13 – April 5, 2014
Editing C.P.E. Bach’s Complete Works
Richard F. French Gallery, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
January 13 – April 5, 2014
Peter Sykes, clavichord
Na’ama Lion, traverso
Sarah Paysnick, traverso
(Click here for Peter’s website.)
Sunday, January 26, 2014 | 3.00 p.m.
Private venue in Wellesley
Program
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
First Church of Christ | Farmington, Connecticut
Friday, November 1, 2013
6:30 p.m. wine and hors d’oeuvres | 7:30 p.m. concert
An intimate evening of wine, delectable nibbles, and Baroque music performed by the American-born French artist Alissa Duryee. Features the music of Iberia and Germany ~ “intimacy to brilliance.”
$25 | Reservations required | Limited to 40 concertgoers
Send checks for reservations to First Church of Christ by Friday, October 25th.
Phone: 860.677.2601
Alissa Duryee
(Click here to read Alissa’s bio.)
Sunday, November 3, 2013 | 3.00 p.m.
Gore Place | 52 Gore Street | Waltham, MA
Click here for directions.
Music of Iberia and Germany:
Intimacy to Brilliance
• Carlo de Seixas
• Padre Antonio Soler
• Johann Kaspar Kerll
• Johann Kuhnau
• Johann Joseph Fux
• Georg Friedrich Händel
Voicing the Woods:
Jeremy Adams, New England
Instrument Maker
Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester, Massachusetts
capeannmuseum.org
October 22, 2016 – February 26, 2017
This exhibition includes a one-stop chamber organ, a demonstration organ chest, a 1995 clavichord and a selection of harpsichords.