A Day Between Heaven and Earth
with the Farallon Recorder Quartet
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Date: Friday, April 11, 2025
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Registration and Fees: Registration opens mid January 2025. Fees available at that time. Please note that in-person attendance is limited to 40 people for workshops and 60 people for the concert. |
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Join the Farallon Recorder Quartet for an unforgettable journey through the musical styles and characteristics of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. This unique event features two concurrent classes for each historical epoch, tailored to different skill levels, ensuring an enriching experience for all participants. Alongside camaraderie and afternoon tea, you'll enjoy a fabulous concert by the Farallon Quartet, making this both a rewarding learning opportunity and a memorable event.
To learn more about the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the workshop, be sure to check out the interview with Vicki Boeckman in our BCRS Magazine.
The Farallon Recorder Quartet—comprising Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Vicki Boeckman, and Miyo Aoki—are renowned across North America for their spirited performances, thoughtfully chosen repertoire, and inspiring workshops. Many of us have traveled far and wide, often at great expense, to receive coaching from one of the members of Farallon, let alone all four!
This special event will be hosted by BCRS member Josine Eikelenboom at her spacious home on Westacre Farm, located just under an hour from downtown Vancouver.
To learn more about the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the workshop, be sure to check out the interview with Vicki Boeckman in our BCRS Magazine.
The Farallon Recorder Quartet—comprising Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Vicki Boeckman, and Miyo Aoki—are renowned across North America for their spirited performances, thoughtfully chosen repertoire, and inspiring workshops. Many of us have traveled far and wide, often at great expense, to receive coaching from one of the members of Farallon, let alone all four!
This special event will be hosted by BCRS member Josine Eikelenboom at her spacious home on Westacre Farm, located just under an hour from downtown Vancouver.
Schedule
Time |
Event |
10:00 - 10:30 |
Tutti - All Levels |
10:45 - 12:00 |
Music of the Early Renaissance Two concurrent classes: Intermediate I & II or Intermediate III & IV |
12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch (lunch not provided) |
1:00 - 1:50 |
Music of the High Renaissance by Palestrina & Lasso Two concurrent classes: Intermediate I & II or Intermediate III & IV |
2:00 - 3:00 |
Music of the Baroque by Telemann, Bach, and Pez Two concurrent classes: Intermediate I & II or Intermediate III & IV |
3:00 |
Break (tea and coffee provided) |
4:00 - 5:30 |
Concert |
Music of the early Renaissance
These three composers - Johannes Ciconia, a Franco-Flemish composer of the late 14th/early 15th century who spent most of his career in Italy, Guillaume Dufay, a Franco-Flemish early 15th century composer who worked in Italy and France, and Gilles Binchois, a 15th -century Franco-Flemish composer whose career was spent mostly in France – will guide us from the end of the Middle Ages in Italy to the beginning of the early Renaissance in Italy and France. Ciconia’s eclectic mix of Italian trecento style with the French Ars Nova led the way from late Medieval music to that of the early Renaissance. Binchois and Dufay, who both worked in the Burgundian court, were two of the most celebrated composers of the early Renaissance. Explore this fascinating period in music with us and these three wonderful composers!
Music of the high Renaissance
Alongside economic expansion and scientific advancements, art and music flourished in 16th -century Europe. Composers continued to innovate, creating new genres from older ones and nurturing a newly-developing interest in serious pieces composed specifically for instruments. With the recent invention of the printing press, music could be distributed and preserved more easily than before, and what survives today gives us a huge repository of fantastic music! From moving sacred works by that master of counterpoint, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, to intimate chansons by the musical polyglot Orlando di Lasso, we’ll immerse ourselves in the glorious music of the high Renaissance.
Music of the Baroque
Antonyms of the word Baroque include bizarre, elaborate, flamboyant, grotesque, convoluted, embellished to name a few! The 17th century was fertile ground for all forms of experimentation as composers, artists and architects liberated themselves from cultural boundaries of the past. In printed music we see an upsurge of treatises, handbooks and frontispiece pages with astute descriptions of essential and extemporal ornamentation, and suggestions on how to play music ‘tastefully’. In these classes we will play music by some of the greatest composers of the baroque era, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and lesser-known Johann Christian Pez.