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Early Music Month Festival Broadcast

March is Early Music Month. Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network for the first of two Noontime Concerts featuring highlights from the 2016 Guild for Early Music Festival.

Each year, the festival is held at Grounds For Sculpture, the not-for-profit sculpture garden, museum, and arboretum, located in Hamilton, NJ. This year’s festival will take place on the two stages of the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, with possible supplementary performances held outdoors by strolling musicians, weather permitting, this Sunday, March 18, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. To find out more about this year’s Early Music Festival by the Guild for Early Music, look online at guildforearlymusic.org.

Or tune in: I’ll be joined today by Judy Klotz and Patricia Hlafter and on Friday by John Burkhalter and Janet Palumbo – all Guild musicians and board members – as co-hosts for music from the Medieval through Classical Periods. The fun begins today at noon.

Following today’s broadcast concert, stick around for a complete performance of “The Canterbury Pilgrims,” George Dyson’s choral music masterwork inspired by Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” Take a pilgrimage back in time from noon to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Early Music America

March 13, 2018
Early Music Festival at Grounds For Sculpture

You don’t have to be a Libra, have a grasp of “astrological houses,” or even know that the moon will be full on Sunday in order to reap the benefits of the zodiac. All you need to know is that the Guild for Early Music will be presenting its 12th annual Early Music Festival at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton from 12:15 to 5 p.m.

“Our theme this year is ‘The Zodiac and the Night Sky,’ which was chosen to reflect the 12th festival,” says Judith Klotz, the Guild’s president. “We felt we had to do something with the number 12. Many of the groups will give nods in the titles of their pieces or the texts of their pieces to this theme. There are also many sculptures at the Grounds that relate to it. As always, there will be free sculpture tours to coordinate with the music.”

The festival will feature over a dozen ensembles in performances of vocal and instrumental works from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. The mini-concerts will take place in the East and West Galleries of the Seward Johnson Center for the Performing Arts. The event is free with admission to the park.

Radio hosts from WWFM – The Classical Network will introduce and take part in the performances. An Early Music “petting zoo” will provide an opportunity to become familiar with instruments of yore such as the vielle, the viola da gamba, the dulcian and the cornetto. The atmosphere will be informal and relaxed, so feel free to take a break to stroll the grounds and enjoy the sculpture, the peacocks, the food and the foliage.

Interested in learning more? The details are not in our stars, dear Brutus, but in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/10/classical_music_12th_annual_ea.html

Lutenist John Orluk Lacombe will be among the featured performers at Sunday’s Early Music marathon

October 14, 2016
Early Music Fest at Grounds For Sculpture

It looks like the Guild for Early Music has taken care to make the appropriate sacrifices to Apollo, since the Sun God will again be smiling on the annual Early Music Festival at Grounds For Sculpture on Sunday (with mostly sunny skies in the forecast and highs in the lower 50s).

The concerts will be held indoors in two galleries at the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, but the nice weather ensures that recorder players will stroll the grounds and that visitors will be able to take in the sculpture tours, luxuriate in a glorious autumn day, and receive inquiring looks from the peacocks, always on the alert for a potential handout.

14 Early Music groups will present music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Colonial Eras. The event will take place from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Grounds For Sculpture is located in Hamilton, on the site of the former New Jersey State Fairgounds. You’ll know you’re close when you start to encounter surreal roadside attractions like the 15-foot tooth and the sidewalk bicyclist.

Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/10/11th_annual_early_music_festiv.html

October 16, 2015
Early Music Fest at Grounds For Sculpture Sunday

Clear skies on Sunday, with temperatures in the lower 60s. It looks like the Guild for Early Music may have lucked out again, weather-wise, for this weekend’s Early Music Festival at Hamilton’s Grounds For Sculpture. The event will take place on Sunday, from 12:30 to 5 p.m. ET.

For the tenth year, the Guild will present music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Early American eras at the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, performing on often exotic stringed and wind instruments. In recent years, the event has grown to encompass two auditoriums. Representatives of the Guild will also stroll the grounds in costume.

Over 150 of Johnson’s outdoor sculptures are currently on display, including a 26-foot tall, 36,000 pound likeness of Marilyn Monroe, captured in her iconic pose atop a subway grate from “The Seven Year Itch.” Johnson’s three dimensional recreations of famous paintings like Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party” continue to be popular attractions.

WWFM’s Alan Kelly, host of the early music program “Distant Mirror” (which can be heard Fridays at 10 p.m.) and David Osenberg, recipient of this year’s ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Radio Broadcast Award for his program “Cadenza” (which can be heard Thursdays at 10 p.m.), will emcee the afternoon of mini-concerts. WWFM, of course, can be heard at 89.1 FM or online at http://www.wwfm.org.

Autumn is a lovely time to visit GFS, established by Johnson on the site of the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds, with its 42-acre sculpture garden, replete with fountains, peacocks and turning leaves.

The event is free with admission to park. Read more about it in my preview in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/10/classical_music_guild_for_earl.html

October 10, 2014

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