For anyone planning to arrive early in Clevland, I have just scheduled in a pre-festival concert event for June 26th evening. The church venue is surrounded by any number of fine Italian restaurants for after the concert. Below is the special invitation from the co-director of the new ensemble, Ciaramella.
- Kenneth Be -------------------- Dear LSA Lute Festival 2004 Participant: You are invited to Ciaramella's concert on Saturday, June 26th at 7:30PM in Holy Rosary Church in Little Italy (a 10 minute walk from the LSA dorms). We would love to see you there as this is our warm up concert to a debut CD recording for Naxos label. Ciaramella, ( see: ciaramella.org ) is an ensemble for 15th-century music, presents "Komm Heiliger Geist," a concert of devotional music from manuscripts at the crossroads of Europe around 1500. Compositions by Paulus de Roda, Heinrich Isaac and Adam von Fulda, performed on shawms, trumpets, recorders, organ and high voices. Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Debra Nagy, Doug Milliken, recorder, shawm, bagpipes; Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz, slide trumpet and sackbut; Kris Ingles, trumpet; Mahan Esfahani, organ; Anna Levenstein, Brooke Randolph, Gail West, voice. _____________________________________________________________________ Saturday, June 26th, 7:30PM Holy Rosary Church, 12021 Mayfield Road (Little Italy), Cleveland, OH 44106. Tickets: Suggested Donation: $12 General/$5 LSA participants and Students Ciaramella takes its name from the Italian word for ³shawm² and from a girl of fifteenth-century song. Like the instrument, her clothes are full of holes, and when she opens her mouth, she knocks men flat. The ensemble brings to life late medieval and early Renaissance music from historical events and manuscripts. The members combine performing careers with historical research as doctoral students and professional musicologists. Ciaramella began in the ruins of a crusader castle in Israel with a staged commedia dell¹ arte production, and has participated in a reconstruction of the baptism of Emperor Charles V with Capilla Flamenca in Ghent’s St. Bravo Cathedral. In Spoleto, Italy, Ciaramella has collaborated with musicologist Gioia Filocamo to perform music from the manuscript Panciatichi 27, much of which has not been heard for centuries. In March 2004, the group participated in a fully staged production of the first Hebrew play A Comedy of Betrothal by Leone de Sommi (c.1550), at The Cleveland Art Museum under the direction of Anna Levenstein. Ciaramella was finalist in the 2003 Flanders Festival International Young Artist’s Presentation. As first runner-up in the Early Music America competition, Ciaramella will record its début CD on the Naxos label following this concert. Ciaramella Contact: Rotem Gilbert 90 Centre St., Mountain View, CA 94041 650-625-0635 ciaramella.org
