Feb 21-23 Kassel
Music of the Josquin Generation, with probably an invitation to sing in the
lovely little chapel of the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe on the Sunday afternoon.
Applications to me.
Feb 28 to March 2 Cambridge
Sadly not yet confirmed, and we don't yet know where we shall be. PLEASE let me
or Selene know if you are interested and we will let you have details as soon as
possible. Selene's email on the Website.
March 14-16 Akademie Klausenhof
Lenten music, concentrating on the Penitential Psalms, an inexhaustible supply
of wonderful music. Applications to Klausenhof - see website for contact
details.
April 25-27 Munich
An Eastertide weekend, probably again looking at repertoire from the Bavarian
Court, and of course including Lassus. Applications to me.
May 10-11 Kilburn
The TVEMF weekend, Repertoire probably overlapping the Munich course, but
including the High Mass at St Augustine's, which is always a splendid occasion.
Applications to Vicky Helby (see Wesbite)
May 17-25 VENICE.
The course this year, back under my own direct control at last, is (not for that
reason) quite a bit more expensive. The Palazzo has increased its charges by 20
per cent, and these will be shared by fewer singers, since I am determined to
keep the group down to 26. In the past
we were often nearly 40 - in an attempt to keep the price down. Details will be
available within days; it looks like being about 800 pounds each in a twin room
ensuite. Repertoire 'Sacred music of the madrigalists', probably including the
great 7-voice Missa Praeter rerum seriem of Rore, but I am on the track of
something possibly even finer...! Applications to me - there is a dedicated
email address:
Venice Academy@aol.com (Venice Academy
two words!)
June 27-29 Wickham
Music for St Peer and St Paul A further weekend with the Indian Franciscan
sisters at Park Place, Wickham near Fareham. It will be good to be there in the
early summer, after our wet weekend in December. I do hope we get a group
capable of tackling the Palestrina Tu es Petrus mass and the magnificent but
very challenging 6-part Propers from Byrd's Gradualia! Applications to me.
August 9-17 Summer Academy at Mondaye, near Bayeux in Normandy.
This year, exceptionally, we are there for the Assumption, which is a
tremendous celebration - AND a chance to devote ourselves quite deliberately to
Mary music. Our main theme will be Salve Regina, but again in music from as wide
a period as possible. The pricing policy will be changed to reflect compromises
on the part of the new 'management' at the Abbey, and in an attempt to keep the
group to a reasonable size...
Applications to the Institut für Kunst, Musik & Sprachen at
InstKMS@aol.com
Sept 25-27 Celle
A new course in St Ludwig, next to the Französischen Garten in the centre of
this attractive historic town. Provisionally a reconstruction of Venetian
vespers (Cavalli Vespero... of 1675) for the Feast of St Michael Archangel.
Applications to Susanne Behr (see Website)
October 24-26 Wickham - our third course in the centre near Fareham.
The Josquin Generation: A close look at the music of the composers born
around 1440 - Josquin, Isaac, Obrecht, La Rue... an extraordinary explosion of
talent within a few years and within a tiny geographical area. Difficult music,
requiring something other than a standard (modern) SATB group - I would like to
think we can find the right people to tackle some wonderful music. Applications
to me.
December 12-14 Wickham
Advent course. It seemed last year that we had indeed found just the right
place for the annual Advent gathering - and it was good to look for once at real
Advent music, and not Christmas music. Let's hope this becomes a regular
meeting. Applications to me.
December 28 to January 2 2004. Mont Ste Odile, Alsace
Early days, I know, but the Christmas Octave course in Alsace is obviously
here to stay, and I am going to see whether Ryanair cannot be a little more
helpful with their flights to Strasbourg - that would really open the course up
for Brits. Please note the dates anyway and - watch this space! Applications to
me.
AUTUMN
PURCELL PROJECT
This has suffered badly from my recent illness, and I am far too late getting it
tied up. I hope to offer similar weekends in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Kassel and
Karlsruhe looking at some of the splendid Purcell repertoire for choir with
continuo, including soloists. Obviously the Funeral Sentences, obviously Jehova
quam multi, but there is so much Purcell which nobody sings... Watch the website
for details!
Please let me have your questions, suggestions, complaints, applications...
Michael Procter
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