A Night’s Tale: The Tournament of Chauvency

Anne Azéma & Eric Mentzel direct
Featuring Shira Kammen, vielle & harp,
and an ensemble of UO students

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Anne Azéma and Eric Mentzel direct
“A Night’s Tale: The Tournament of Chauvency”
Featuring Shira Kammen, Vielle & harp, and an ensemble of UO students
Saturday, June 2
8 p.m. Willamette Hall Atrium, University of Oregon campus
Free and open to the public

Le Tournoi de Chauvency is a seductive tale of the tournament and festivities held at Chauvency-le-Château in October 1285, reported by the poet Jacques Bretel. The Musicians and the Romantics--the students of MUS 4/507 and RL 4/507--will perform magnificent songs and poems of youth, chivalry, erotic intrigue and passionate romance, as celebrated in more courtly times.

Anne Azéma’s visit is co-sponsored by: the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; the Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education; the Robert M. Trotter Fund of the UO School of Music and Dance; the Giustina Family Professorship in Italian Language and Literature; the UO Department of Romance Languages; the UO Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; the UO Dean of Graduate Research; the UO College of Arts and Sciences; and the UO Department of Comparative Literature.

George Friedrich Handel’s “Agrippina”

Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, May 27 in Portland

Baroque Opera Workshop
presents
George Friedrich Handel’s
“Agrippina”

Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, May 27 • 7:00 p.m. Multnomah Arts Center Auditorium
7688 SW Capitol Highway • Portland, Oregon 97219 • 503-823-ARTS

'Agrippina' is considered Handel’s first operatic masterpiece; according to Winton Dean it has few rivals for its “sheer freshness of musical invention.” Grimani’s libretto has also come in for much praise: The New Penguin Opera Guide describes it as one of the best Handel ever composed, and praises the “light touch” with which the characters are vividly portrayed. 'Agrippina' as a whole is, in the view of scholar John E. Sawyer, “among the most convincing of all the composer’s dramatic works.”

Directors: David Kerr, Sue Jensen, David Rivinus
Singers:
Linda Tsatsanis • Agrippina
Catherine Olson • Poppea
Abraham Hardy • Claudio
Anna Rikli • Nerone
Beth Madsen Bradford • Ottone
Orchestra:
Linda Melsted, David Kerr, Elizabeth Doty, Byron Laing, Alberta Hardy • Violins Samuel Zacharia • Viola
Kohler Johnson, Keahi Horowitz • Cello Paul Pitkin • Oboe
Assisted by members of Portland Baroque Orchestra
Curtis Daily • Double Bass
Susan Jensen • Harpsichord
joined by
Hideki Yamaya • Archlute

Suggested donation: $20. Proceeds benefit the performers and the Multnomah Arts Center Association.

Candens Lilium: Vox Resonat Goes Medieval

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012   8:00 PM

Vox Resonat

Candens Lilium: Vox Resonat Goes Medieval
8:00 PM on Friday, May 18, 2012
Central Lutheran Church, 18th and Potter, Eugene

Vox Resonat, an ensemble of vocal solists directed by Eric Mentzel, presents a concert of rarely-heard medieval music for the first time in Eugene. The program title, Candens Lilium, evokes the image of the white lily to which the Virgin was often compared. The ensemble consists of 10 vocalists who sing together or in various smaller combinations. Repertoire includes music from Notre Dame de Paris, medieval Aquitaine, the Old Hall Manuscript and from the Spanish convent of Las Huelgas, as well as Italian laude, English carols, and motets from 14th century France.

Whether you come for the contemplative conductus or the ecstatic organa, there is no better way to celebrate Mary's month.

Suggested donation: $10 / $5 for students and senior citizens.
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Harpsichord and Viol

SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012,  4:00 p.m.
Joanna Blendulf and Julia Brown

Concerts at First presents “Harpsichord and Viol”, a concert of music for viola da gamba and harpsichord from the high Baroque with Joanna Blendulf and Julia Brown on Sunday, May 20 at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street, Eugene.  The program includes works by Marais, d’Hervelois, C. P. E. Bach, W. F. Bach and J. S. Bach.

Suggested donation $10.  The audience is encouraged to bring canned goods for Food for Lane County.

For more information: www.eugenefumc.org

Joanna Blendulf has performed as soloist and continuo player in leading period instrument ensembles throughout the United States. Ms. Blendulf holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University, where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Alan Harris. In 1998, she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments on baroque cello from Indiana University. Joanna performs with the Portland, Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists and has also been a member of Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra and the New York Collegium. Ms.  Blendulf is an active chamber musician, performing and touring with the Catacoustic Consort, American Baroque, Ensemble Mirable, Reconstruction, the Streicher Trio and Wildcat Viols. Her recording of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt Triemer with Ensemble Mirable can be found on the Magnatune label. Ms. Blendulf's summer engagements have included performances at the Bloomington, Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Aspen Music Festival as well as the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals.

Julia Brown is currently Director of Music and Organist at First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, while also maintaining a full schedule of teaching, performing and recording.  Brown has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe, having performed for American Guild of Organists Regional and National Conventions, Latin American Organist Conventions, the Oregon Bach Festival, and National Public Radio.  As a Naxos recording artist, her releases of Scheidemann and Buxtehude on Brombaugh and Pasi organs have received high critical acclaim.  Discography also includes “Christmas Concert” on the historic organ in Mariana, Brazil and “Bach Organ Favorites” on the Taylor & Boody in Indianapolis.  Brown is currently recording keyboard and organ works of W. F. Bach for Naxos.  Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brown studied piano, harpsichord and organ in her native Brazil before receiving her MM and DMA from Northwestern University as a student of Wolfgang Rübsam.

'Une aventure vos dirai': Performing Medieval Texts and Songs in the 21st Century

FRIDAY 11 MAY, 2012,  3:15pm

Anne Azéma

Anne Azéma, our distinguished artist in residence and Trotter Visiting Professor at the School of Music and Dance, will give a talk this Friday May 11th at 3:15 in the Collier House on the UO campus. Her lecture is part of the regular THEME series in SOMD, and is entitled

"'Une aventure vos dirai': Performing Medieval Texts and Songs in the 21st Century"

Anne's residency is sponsored by The Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education; the Oregon Humanities Center Visiting Scholar Fund; the Oregon Humanities Center Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; the Robert M. Trotter Endowment Fund, SOMD; the Giustina Family Professorship in Italian Language and Literature; the Department of Romance Languages; the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; the Departments of Musicology and Voice, SOMD; the Dean of Graduate Research; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the Department of Comparative Literature.