If you're considering coming to the Lute Festival, I have scheduled in a special pre-workshop concert for those who arrive a day earlier: - Kenneth NEWLY ADDED TO THE LSA LUTE FESTIVAL 2004:A SPECIAL PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERT!!! June 26, 2004 7:30PMHoly Rosary Church, on Mayfield Rd in Cleveland's Little Italy (10 minute walk from the LSA campus dormitories) The ensemble "Ciaramella" will perform"Komm Heiliger Geist" - German music for winds and voices, c.1500 - (Adam Gilbert, Debra Nagy, Greg Ingles, Anna Levenstein, Doug Milliken, and Rotem Gilbert)
Special admission price for LSA attendees and students: $5.00General admission: $12.00 Ciaramella: Ciaramella takes its name from the Italian word for "shawm" and from a girl in a 15th-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 an 11th-century Crusader castle in Israel with a staged Commedia dell'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 Italy, Ciaramella has collaborated with musicologist Gioia Filocamo to perform music from the MS. Panciatichi 27, much of which has not been heard for centuries. Ciaramella was a finalist in the 2003 Flanders Festival International Young Artist's Presentation. As first runner-up in the 2003 Ear! ly Music America competition, Ciaramella will record its debut CD in Toronto on the Naxos label in June 2004 (just after this concert is performed)
