Category Archives: Bulletin

Bulletin Number 46 | Fall 2020

Number 46, Fall 2020

  Le clavichord published in France

  Two clavichords by Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer

  Joan Benson Tribute

  Handel’s Attick

  Frances Conover Fitch Recital Review

Bulletin Number 45 | Fall 2019

Number 45, Fall 2019

  Four Hands at the Clavichord

  Exploring Chopin on the Clavichord

  Clavichord Events at the 2019 Boston Early Music Festival

  VIII Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival in Kuopio, Finland, May 21–29, 2019

Bulletin Number 44 | Winter 2019

Number 44, Winter 2019

  Meerbach Clavichord

  Fretting About Fingering: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Clavichords and Historical Keyboard Technique

  British Clavichord Society Newsletter

  The Jupiter Symphony: A Personal Experience

Bulletin Number 43 | Summer 2018

Number 43, Summer 2018

  Clavichord and Organ at Orgelpark

  A New “Leipzig 10” from Andreas Hermert

  Nordic Historic Keyboard Festival 2018

  Menno van Delft recording of Bach Partitas on Clavichord

  The Clavichord and the Cello

Bulletin Number 42 | Fall 2017

Number 42, Fall 2017

  Consistency and Inconsistency in Historical Keyboard Fingering

  An Interview with Maria Erdman

  Nordic Keyboard Festival 2017

  Katarzyna Kluczykowska, Polish Keyboardist

  Partitas by Georg Muffat

  Herbert Howells, Music for Clavichord

  Carole Cerasi in Recital and a New Clavichord by Douglas Maple

Bulletin Number 41 | Winter 2016

Number 41, Winter 2016

  CD Review: J.S. Bach French Suites
Played on Two Clavichords by Julian Perkins

  Teaching Clavichord Workshops

  A Visit to Weimar: Summer 2016

  Clavichord Studies at the Hochschule für Musik
Franz Liszt Weimar

Bulletin Number 40 | Spring 2016

Number 40, Spring 2016

  Becoming an Early Keyboard Technician: Elizabeth Harris in Boston

  What Makes It “Clavichord” (or not)?

  The Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival
May 29-June 10, 2016

  New and Old Music for Clavichord
(recording on CD)

  Susan Alexander Max: In Memoriam

  Building a Zuckermann Clavichord VI

  Exploring the Sykes Clavichord Collection, Part Two

  Research on a clavichord in Paris attributed to Johann Heinrich Silbermann

Bulletin Number 39 | Winter 2015

Number 39, Winter 2015

  Mersenne’s Clavichord

  Building a Clavichord

  Update on Research pertaining to Five Clavichords Attributed to Johann Heinrich Silbermann

  The Finnish Clavichord Society

  Kids and Keyboards

  C.P.E. Bach at Juilliard

Bulletin Number 38 | Spring 2015

Number 38, Spring 2015

  Schulenberg Recital: A C.P.E. Bach Retrospective

  Minimizing the Effects of Severe Weather on Keyboard Instruments

  Fourth Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

  Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014)

  The Clavichord at the Juilliard School

  Introducing Historical Keyboards at the Rivers Conservatory

  The Pedal Clavichord at Oberlin

Bulletin Number 37 | Winter 2014

Number 37, Winter 2014

  Clavichord for Beginners

  Peter Bavington: An Appreciation

  A C.P.E Bach Tercentenary Conference at Cornell

  Clavichord Instruction in Japan

  Michigan Clavichord Society in Formation

  A Gallery of Bavington Clavichords

  A Clavichord Conference in Germany

  Observations on three clavichords attributed to Johann Heinrich Silbermann: A Builder’s Perspective

Bulletin Number 36 | Spring 2014

Number 36, Spring 2014

  Appreciating the Music of C.P.E. Bach Today

  A Tour of Clavichords

  Tom Beghin at Houghton Library

  The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  C.P.E. Bach at Harvard

  Lebedinsky to Offer Workshop at AGO Convention

Bulletin Number 35 | Fall 2013

Number 35, Fall 2013

•  Eight is (Nearly) Enough

•  Clavichord Instruction in Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities, Part II

•  The Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival 2013

•  Crowell Photo Gallery

Bulletin Number 34 | Spring 2013

Number 34, Spring 2013

•  Clavichord Instruction in Conservatories, Colleges and Universities

•  Bach and Sons: Clavichord and Flute
Review of Steens/Bresch CD

•  Kids Encounter Historic Keyboards in Connecticut

•  Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival this August

Bulletin Number 33 | Fall 2012

Number 33, Fall 2012

•  The Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival; Kuopio, Finland, August 15-24, 2012

•  The Legacy of József Gát

•  A Clavichord Workshop at the Amherst Early Music Festival; Connecticut College, New London, CT, July 9-13, 2012

•  Alissa Duryee

•  XI International Clavichord Symposium September 3-7, 2013
Call for Papers

•  BCS Recital: Ulrika Davidsson at Gore Place, Waltham

Bulletin Number 32 | Spring 2012

Number 32, Spring 2012

•  Klavechord in Primetime: A Two-Part Belgian Clavichord Festival

•  18th Century Pedagogical Keyboard Music from Nordic Manuscripts: An introduction to a new repertoire of attractive & practical pieces
for clavichord

•  Polonoise in G minor

•  Menuet Variation 18. Andante

•  BCS Recital: Andrus Madsen

•  The 25th Anniversary Jubilee Symposium of the Nederlands Clavichord Genootschap

Bulletin Number 31 | Winter 2011

Number 31, Winter 2011

•  A New Critical Edition of C.P.E. Bach’s Versuch

•  Some Observations on the Use of the Clavichord as a Practice Instrument

•  Carol lei Breckenridge in Recital

•  Tsalka and Spányi at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival Keyboard Mini-Festival

•  On Making a Pedal Clavichord

•  European Clavichord Tour

Bulletin Number 30 | Spring 2011

Number 30, Spring 2011

•  Virginia Pleasants at 100!

•  From One Keyboard to Another

•  The New Frescobaldi Edition

•  The BCS at the Boston Early Music Festival

•  Sylvia Berry in Recital

•  Mark Kroll in Recital

Bulletin Number 29 | Winter 2010

Number 29, Winter 2010

•  Notes from the Editor / BCS 15th Anniversary

•  My Clavichord Collection

•  Ursula Dütschler in Concert

•  Michael Tsalka in Concert

•  Benjamin Martinez: Painter, designer, BCS webmaster

•  Reminiscences from the Midwest

•  Woodshedding Widor and other practical uses for a clavichord

•  Tales of the Clavichord

Bulletin Number 28 | Spring 2010

Number 28, Spring 2010

•  The Clavichords of C.P.E. Bach & Haydn

•  Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s Keyboard Music

•  Ulrika Davidsson Plays Haydn

•  Els Biesemans, Clavichordist, at Gore Place

Bulletin Number 27 | Fall 2009

Number 27, Fall 2009

•  Owen Daly Ventures into Saxon Territory

•  The Clavichord and Classical Russian Keyboard Repertoire

•  The Clavichord at the BEMF Keyboard Mini-Festival

•  Maximilian Fleischman performs for the BCS at BEMF

•  The Oleskiewicz-Schulenberg Duo: Flute and Clavichord

Bulletin Number 26 | Spring 2009

Number 26, Spring 2009

•  Playing the Clavichord in Chamber Music: Some Preliminary Considerations

•  Promoting the Clavichord

•  Renée Geoffrion Recital

•  The Travel Clavichord

•  From “On Buying a Clavichord”

•  The Clavichord at BEMF

•  Lebedinsky in Recital

•  New Packard Institute Keyboard Volumes

•  Irwin-Brandon Clavichord Recital

•  Musica Antica a Magnano: Summer Courses

Bulletin Number 25 | Fall 2008

Number 25, Fall 2008

•  An Interview with Kevin Spindler

•  Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier

•  Benjamin Alard Recital

•  Van Delft & Root Recital

•  Composing for the Clavichord: A Short Guide

•  Magnano Reminder

•  Richard Kramer on C.P.E. Bach

Bulletin Number 24 | Spring 2008

Number 24, Spring 2008

•  Keyboard Study in Amsterdam

•  Figured Bass Arpeggi in the Fantasias of C.P.E. Bach

•  BCS Fall Recitals

•  Van Delft & Root in Concert

•  Ergonomics of the Keyboard, Part Two

•  Magnano Announcement

•  Troeger on Early Clavichords

Bulletin Number 23 | Fall 2007

Number 23, Fall 2007

•  Ergonomics of the keyboard

•  Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance

•  Joan Benson Visits Indiana University

•  The BCS at the Boston Early Music Festival 2007

•  The Restoration of a Swedish Fretted Clavichord

Bulletin Number 22 | Spring 2007

Number 22, Spring 2007

•  The Harpsichord vs. the Clavichord: Historical and Polemical Perspectives

•  Autograph Manuscript by Froberger Emerges, Only to Disappear Again

•  C.P.E. Bach: New Keyboard Volumes Published

•  The Clavichord at Eastman

•  Alexander-Max Recital

•  Yearsley Joined by Sykes in Spring Clavichord Recital

•  Sykes & Irwin-Brandon at BCS BEMF 2007

•  BCS Clavichord Day, January 20, 2007

•  BCS 2007-2008 Season

•  VII International Clavichord Symposium

Bulletin Number 21 | Fall 2006

Number 21, Fall 2006

•  Haydn and the Clavichord

•  Earliest Clavichord Piece Performed

•  Spring 2006 BCS Recitals

•  Symposium on the Clavichord, Edinburgh, 2006

•  Clavichord Labeled M. J. Schramm, München

•  The Clavichord at Oberlin

•  René Geoffrion Residency

Bulletin Number 20 | Spring 2006

Number 20, Spring 2006

•  C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works

•  An Interview with Lothar Bemmann

•  Fleischman & Sykes Present Benefit Recital

•  Renée Geoffrion in Recital at First Church, Cambridge

•  Andrus Madsen at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge

•  Troeger Recording of The Art of Fugue

•  Turnabout is Fair Play or Repertoire Theft for Fun and Profit, Part 2

•  Magnano Events

Bulletin Number 19 | Fall 2005

Number 19, Fall 2005

•  Howard Schott (1923 – 2005)

•  The Clavichord in the Education of a Keyboardist

•  The Clavichord as the Key to All Other Keyboard Instruments (II)

•  Clavichord Symposium at the 2005 Boston Early Music Festival

•  Turnabout is Fair Play or Repertoire Theft for Fun and Profit

•  Tannenberg Clavichord Symposium

•  Fortino Plays at BEMF

•  Two Duos at BEMF

•  Lebedinsky and Sansom in Recital

•  Website Additions

Bulletin Number 18 | Spring 2005

Number 18, Spring 2005

•  The Clavichord as the Key to All Other Keyboards

•  A Tannenberg Clavichord Identified

•  A Very Small Dolmetsch

•  The BCS at BEMF, 2005

•  A Publishing Project by Sally Fortino

•  Irwin-Brandon & Sykes Present Benefit Recital

•  Schulenberg and Oleskiewicz in a Duo Recital

•  Andrus Madsen at Spring House

Bulletin Number 17 | Fall 2004

Number 17, Fall 2004

•  The British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition, 2004

•  Postscript: The American Competitors

•  The Electro-Acoustic Clavichord

•  Teaching the Clavichord to a Child

•  Revisiting the 1928 Art of Recording the Clavichord: Comparisons and Comment

•  Audley Green Introduces Three Composers

Bulletin Number 13 | Fall 2002

Number 13, Fall 2002

•  The Fate of a Virtuoso: a Clavichord-Song by Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth

•  Sally Fortino at the Shirley-Eustis House

•  Comments on Kirkpatrick

•  Clavichord kit building

Bulletin Number 12 | Spring 2002

Number 12, Spring 2002

•  An Interview with Paul Irvin, Part II

•  An Introduction to D.G. Türk

•  Igor Kipnis 1931-2002

•  A Look at Owner-Built Clavichords in Finland

•  Announcement: The Hubert Clavichord Data Book

Bulletin Number 10 | Spring 2001

Number 10, Spring 2001

•  The 2001 Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition

•  From the President

•  Pedal Clavichord Day

•  An Important New Museum Catalogue

•  Clavichord Celebration in Finland

•  Interview with Pekka Vapaavuori

Bulletin Number 9 | Winter 2000

Number 9, Winter 2000

•  Clavichord Weekend at Brandeis

•  Keyboard Lessons with Arnold Dolmetsch

•  The Eye of the Historical Needle

•  Concert by Steve Barrell

•  A Conversation with Steven Barrell

Bulletin Number 6 | Summer 1999

Number 6, Summer 1999

•  Report from Edinburgh

•  Maintenance Report, I

•  Bach on the Pedal Clavichord

•  J.S. Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias, Duets

•  C.P.E. Bach conference at Cornell University

Bulletin Number 5 | Fall 1998

Number 5, Fall 1998

•  Playing Mozart on the Clavichord, Part II

•  Report on the clavichord workshop at Magnano

•  Three recent clavichord recordings
[C.P.E. Bach, 5 Flute Sonatas; Pekka Vapaavouri plays clavichords built by himself; C.P.E. Bach, The Solo Keyboard Music I]

•  An Interview with Mark Kroll

Bulletin Number 4 | Spring 1998

Number 4, Spring 1998

•  Playing Mozart on the Clavichord, Part I

•  Clavichords in America: Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer, 1796,
in the collection of the Musem of Fine Arts, Boston

•  John Barnes: 1928-1998

Bulletin Number 3 | Fall 1997

Number 3, Fall 1997

•  Capturing the Gerstenberg “1982”: Recollections of the Pedal Clavichord for Chico State University

•  Teacher’s Corner

•  Report on the Boston Early Music Festival

•  Report on the Third International Clavichord Meeting, Magnano, 1997

•  CD Review: Paul Simmond’s recording of Wolf’s sonatas

•  New music: Franz Seydelmann’s keyboard works

Bulletin Number 2 | Spring 1997

Number 2, Spring 1997

•  Reconstructing Silbermann’s Cembal d’Amour

•  Hugh Gough, In Memoriam

•  House Music: The Beginning to the Mid-Seventeenth Century

•  Clavichord Day at Mount Holyoke College

Bulletin Number 1 | Fall 1996

Number 1, Fall 1996

•  A Letter from the President

•  Clavichord Day at Brandeis

•  Some Thoughts on Clavichord Repertory

•  Teacher’s Corner

•  House music: C.P.E. Bach

•  The International Centre for Clavichord Studies at Magnano

Bulletin Number 0 | Spring 1996

Number 0, Spring 1996

•  Letter from the President

•  Report on the second international clavichord conference, Magnano, 1995

•  A Collection of Reprints

•  For the Newcomer: Selecting a Clavichord

•  An Interview with Karin Richter

•  Performance Practice from 18th C. Sources

•  Clavichords in Britain, No. 1

•  Review of the Proceedings of the Magnano Conference 1993