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UPCOMING APPEARANCES
Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 7:30 pm We're delighted to share this very special program with our friends at the Lyceum School in their wonderful new home at Sacred Heart. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of sacred music from the 12th-16th centuries, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. We invite you to join us in the glorious acoustic of Sacred Heart of Jesus for a peaceful and reflective evening in celebration of Epiphany.  RECENT PERFORMANCES:
Mignarda returns to St. Thomas for our fourth annual benefit for the Caroline Food Pantry. We'll offer some of the music from our 2008 release "Duo Seraphim", together with a mix of new additions to our holiday repertory. We are very pleased once again to be able to help support St. Thomas' efforts on behalf of those in need in our own community. 100% of your donation, as well as a portion of our profits for the evening's CD sales, will go directly to the Food Pantry. We hope you'll join us in supporting this important work as generously as you can. Details below. St. Thomas' is an exceptionally nice space for this intimate music. Treat yourself to a lovely, peaceful afternoon before the holiday crush, and help us bring some warmth to our neighbors in need.
"...The Mignarda Duo, Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart, filled the room with -- from a review of our first benefit concert at St. Thomas'
Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 7:30pm Join our live studio audience for the taping of an hour-long broadcast on our local PBS television station. Reception begins at 7:30, followed immediately by an hour-long concert at 8pm featuring French, Italian, and English music from Divine Amarillis, Sfumato, and the forthcoming Dowland project, titled Pilgrimes Solace. We'd love to see you there! The show is scheduled to air on WSKG-TV on October 27th at 8pm.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011 at 3:00pm This special concert in the intimate Marian Transept of the Cathedral sanctuary will feature music from our latest CD, Harmonia Caelestis, highlighting the intense devotional imagery of 16th century Spanish composers including Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Tomás Luis de Victoria. In returning to the sacred polyphony that brought us together, we have arranged the program as an extended meditation, following the example of our forebears in selecting and adapting the best examples of polyphonic sacred music for private devotions. Virtually every surviving source of lute music from the 16th century contains arrangements of sacred polyphony scattered among the dances and fantasias, and it was common practice to use the lute, with its delicate sound and portable size, in private daily devotional music. Even Palestrina was known to have worked out his masses and other compositions with lute in hand, reflecting the typical use of what has in these times become quite rare. Join us for a peaceful and reflective afternoon in an inspiring space.
Mignarda returns to St. Thomas for our third annual benefit for the Caroline Food Pantry. We'll offer a mix of music from our latest CD, Harmonia Caelestis together with popular selections from our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. We are very pleased once again to be able to help support St. Thomas' efforts on behalf of those in need in our own community. 100% of your donation, as well as a portion of our profits for the evening's CD sales, will go directly to the Food Pantry. We hope you'll join us in supporting this important work as generously as you can. Details below. St. Thomas' is an exceptionally nice space for this intimate music, and will be beautifully decorated for the season. Treat yourself to a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness, and help us bring some warmth to our neighbors in need.
"...The Mignarda Duo, Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart, filled the room with -- from a review of our first benefit concert at St. Thomas'
Sunday, December 5th, 2010 at 1:30pm We're delighted to be appearing at the Danbury Library for an afternoon of rarities and seasonal favorites. Including music from our 2009 CD, Duo Seraphim, the program will feature our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with music that spans the seasons.
Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 8:00pm This program, featuring the music from our new CD, Harmonia Caelestis, highlights the intense devotional imagery of 16th century Spanish composers including Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Tomás Luis de Victoria. In returning to the sacred polyphony that brought us together, we have arranged the program as an extended meditation, following the example of our forebears in selecting and adapting the best examples of polyphonic sacred music for private devotions. Virtually every surviving source of lute music from the 16th century contains arrangements of sacred polyphony scattered among the dances and fantasias, and it was common practice to use the lute, with its delicate sound and portable size, in private daily devotional music. Even Palestrina was known to have worked out his masses and other compositions with lute in hand, reflecting the typical use of what has in these times become quite rare. Mignarda is delighted to be making our first appearance at the Lyceum School's new home at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. Co-sponsored by Sacred Heart of Jesus and The Lyceum School, this concert marks the official Cleveland release of Harmonia Caelestis.
Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 7:30pm Mignarda gave a special performance as part of the inaugural offering of CSMA's First Friday Chamber Music Series, coordinated by Thom Baker, CSMA faculty member, tenor soloist, and member of early music group, Pomerium. Sponsored by The Ithaca Sertoma Club, this series was initiated to showcase local professional musicans of note on the first Friday of each month.
Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Mignarda Duo was again featured in performance at the annual conference of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University. This year's topic was NEGOTIATING TRADE: Commercial Institutions & Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval & Early Modern World. Textiles, spices and other goods were far from the only commodities exchanged in the late medieval global marketplace. The international character of the sources of music, its composers, its purveyors, and its melting-pot amalgam of styles represent a clear example of the dissemination of an important cultural medium through trade. Our program highlighted music from the cusp between the Medieval and Renaissance periods, most of which originated in Venice, a crossroads for music as well as for trade and commerce. Prominently featured was music of the composer and singer Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c.1470-1535) and the lutenist Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl.1508), both of whom had Venetian connections. More information on the conference may be found at:
Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 12 noon Music was integral to Shakespeare's plays and is featured more prominently than may be immediately apparent to the casual reader. This program features many of the musical references in selected plays, presenting songs and ballad tunes - including both historical settings and our new settings of orphan texts matched to music from historical sources.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 12 noon Sponsored by the Hastings College Department of Music, this presentation featured a broad overview of Tudor music, specifics of how music was used in Shakespeare's plays, and a background discussion describing the musicians who performed it. Artful visual representations of historical sources were integrated into the lecture, along with performance of selected pieces from Twelfth Night and other plays.
September 16-19th, 2010 We presented an overview of music in Shakespeare’s plays at the 2005 Ashland Authorship Conference and, five years on, we built on that foundation with more specificity and a few amplifications pertaining to the Earl of Oxford's patronage, his poetry, music associated with specific poems, and a smattering of references that appeared in the plays and in late Elizabethan published musical sources. After our initial lecture presentation, which opened the four-day conference, we were featured in concert throughout the conference, performing music from our 2005 release My Lord of Oxenford's Maske: Edward de Vere and his circle, from our new edition, Shakespeare's Lute Book, and from our ongoing project to reconstruct settings of orphan texts by matching them to music from historical sources.
Sunday, September 12th, 2010 at 1 pm Music was integral to Shakespeare's plays. This program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library featured music from our new edition, Shakespeare's Lute Book. The program included many of the musical references from selected plays, presenting 16th century English songs, ayres, ballads and dance tunes - including both historical settings and our own new settings of orphan texts matched to music from historical sources.
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 4pm
The program will feature a richly-textured blend of the music, poetry and dance tunes of 16th century France, together with the haunting and lovely tunes of the early 17th century French court. The evocative 16th century songs, inspired by the eloquent grace and the passionate artifice of poets Marot and Ronsard, include Mignarda's own arrangements of chansons and psalm settings with music by Sermisy, Janequin, Crecquillon, Lassus, and Philip Van Wilder. The sparkling lute solos include dances from the publications of Attaignant, and exotic gems from Marco dal l'Aquila and 'il divino' Francesco da Milano. The tunes from the early 17th century French court known as airs de cour were the pop music of their day, with poetic themes dwelling upon one of three subjects: unrequited love, the sometimes inexplicable interactions of mythological deities, or idyllic scenes of nymphs and shepherds. This music has proven particularly accessible to modern audiences, and many people have remarked that it conjures a moment of serenity in their otherwise hectic lives.
Friday, March 5th, 2010 6-8pm We're delighted to be a part of the Johnson Museum's gala evening celebrating the exhibition of French renaissance culture: The evening's program will feature harpsichord music by David Yearsley, a short set of lute song by Mignarda, poetry readings, tours of the exhibition, and, of course, tastings of French wines and Renaissance delicacies. Come bring out your inner courtier!
6:00–6:30 tastings DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide  "...The Mignarda Duo, Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart, filled the room with lute music reminiscent of drops of water in a pristine Japanese pool
-- from a review of last year's concert
benefit concert: We are very pleased to be able to help support St. Thomas' efforts on behalf of those in need in our own community. 100% of your donation, as well as a portion of our profits for the evening's CD sales, will go directly to the Food Pantry. We hope you'll join us in supporting this important work as generously as you can. Details below. Mignarda returns to St. Thomas for a program of music from our our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. St. Thomas' is an exceptionally nice space for this intimate music, and we invite you to join us for a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness.
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 The Feast of St. Lucy occurs on December 13th, at the intersection of several diverse mid-winter traditions having to do with darkness and light. Our 2nd annual concert in honor of St. Lucy will feature chant and polyphony for treble voices, harp, and lute, followed by lute song on Marian texts for the season of Advent. The candlelit splendor of the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus will make a fitting and dramatic backdrop for this haunting break from the hectic holiday season. Join us to dispell the darkness with the illumination of sound.
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 4:00pm
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:30pm A special cd release concert, featuring music from our brand new CD, Au pres de vous, as well as music from our award-winning 2006 release, Divine Amarillis. Au pres de vous is a richly-textured blend of the music, poetry and dance tunes of 16th century France, with songs inspired by the eloquent grace and the passionate artifice of poets Marot and Ronsard. The songs include our own arrangements of chansons and psalm settings with music by Sermisy, Janequin, Crecquillon, Lassus, and our favorite, Philip Van Wilder. The sparkling lute solos include dances from the publications of Attaignant, and exotic gems from Marco dal l'Aquila and 'il divino' Francesco da Milano. Divine Amarillis, featuring the haunting and lovely tunes of the early 17th century French court, was the 2009 winner for Best Classical/Vocal Album at the JPF awards in August. Join Mignarda for this dual celebration, presented in collaboration with our friends at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Slaterville Springs, New York and the Lyceum School in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at 4:00pm Join us as we travel through time and trace an ever-evolving musical style during the 118-year reign of England's Tudor monarchs. All the Tudors were trained in music from childhood and were accomplished lutenists, singers, and even composers. Using the framework of the Tudor dynasty - 1485 through 1603 - we present a broad range of musical styles reflecting the varied musical influences left by this musically gifted clan, all of whom employed legions of important musicians, French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian. Our samplings from the bounteous Tudor musical legacy begin with mesmerizing rondeaux from the time of Henry VII, romp through the familiar lusty fare of Henry VIII's tempestuous court, sample serene sacred music to please the devout "Bloody Mary", and indulge in the lush and familiar songs from Elizabeth's Golden Age.
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 7:00pm
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 4:00pm Join us as we travel through time and trace an ever-evolving musical style during the 118-year reign of England's Tudor monarchs. All the Tudors were trained in music from childhood and were accomplished lutenists, singers, and even composers. Using the framework of the Tudor dynasty - 1485 through 1603 - we present a broad range of musical styles reflecting the varied musical influences left by this musically gifted clan, all of whom employed legions of important musicians, French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian. Our samplings from the bounteous Tudor musical legacy begin with mesmerizing rondeaux from the time of Henry VII, romp through the familiar lusty fare of Henry VIII's tempestuous court, sample serene sacred music to please the devout "Bloody Mary", and indulge in the lush and familiar songs from Elizabeth's Golden Age.
DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide
benefit concert: A special program celebrating the release of our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. St. Thomas' is an exceptionally nice space for this intimate music, and we invite you to join us for a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness.
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 The Feast of St. Lucy occurs on December 13th, at the intersection of several diverse mid-winter traditions having to do with darkness and light. Mignarda and friends will perform sacred chant and polyphony proper to St. Lucy's Day, followed by a concert of music by John Dowland, aptly dedicated to 16th century patroness of musicians and poets, Lucy, Countess of Bedford. The candlelit splendor of the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus will make a fitting and dramatic backdrop for this haunting break from the hectic holiday season. Mark your calendars now for this very special event.
DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide
A very special program celebrating the release of our Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. We invite you to join us in the lovely acoustic of Pebble Hill Church for a peaceful and reflective antidote to the holiday madness.
AU PRES DE VOUS: 16th century French chansons for voices & lute
Saturday, September 13th at 7:30 pm Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors & students, kids under 12 free Mignarda Lutesong Duo returns to Syracuse and Ithaca to present a concert program of 16th century French chansons, entitled 'Au pres de vous'. The concert will include chansons in settings from one to five voices, solos with lute accompaniment, and a sprinkling of rarely-heard lute solos. For this performance, the duo is joined by an ensemble of five Ithaca-area singers, who will add texture and variety to this unusual program. The program traces the development of the 16th century Parisian chanson from Claudin Sermisy to Orlando Lassus, with the music of Philip van Wilder as the centerpiece. Philip van Wilder, who was master of music to England's Henry VIII, was a prominent musician and composer of chansons and sacred music. His instrument was the lute, but van Wilder's fame rests with his corpus of chansons, published on the continent and found in several English manuscript sources. Ranging from the sensitive and nuanced interweaving of five parts, to the rustic dance-like voix de ville (precursor to vaudeville), the program will feature several chansons that have not been performed for nearly 500 years.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Mignarda Duo will be featured in performance at the annual conference of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University. This year's topic is VENUS AND THE VENEREAL: Interpretations and Representations from Late Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century. More information on the conference may be found at:
Two area performances:
Saturday, March 29th at 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 30th at 4:00 pm
A special concert of Italian and English songs and lute music from 1560-1620. Join us for an Italian-flavored musical banquet, spiced with ingredients that influenced the music of Elizabethan lute virtuoso John Dowland. The program will also feature the original lute solos that were later transcribed by Ottorino Respighi in his popular "Ancient Airs & Dances".
A very special concert celebrating the release of our new Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Please join us in one of our favorite spaces for a peaceful afternoon prolonging the joys of the season once the stresses and obligations are safely over. The music on our new CD stretches from the seasons of Advent to Epiphany, as will this program. Join us! Thanks once again to Lyceum School Headmaster Mark Langley, and to the entire extended Langley and Lyceum families for their hospitality.
4:00 pm First Unitarian Society corner of Aurora & Buffalo in Ithaca, New York
Admission: $12, students & seniors $8 The Mignarda Duo is delighted to welcome special guests soprano Jaime Kibelsbeck, tenor Adam Perl, and bass Geoffrey Royall for an afternoon which will begin with a taste of Dowland's legendary melancholy, in a program of rarely-heard part songs - including the first published song cycle in the English language. The duo will then "purge melancholy" with a selection from our popular program of Scots and English ballads and folk tunes. Join us!
FREE: all are welcome
Thanks yet again to Lyceum School Headmaster Mark Langley, and to the entire extended Langley and Lyceum families for their wonderful hospitality and generosity in hosting these concerts.
The Stone Mill Bakery 10751 Falls Road in Lutherville, Maryland Freewill offering Internationally acclaimed lute virtuoso and Baltimore native Ronn McFarlane presents an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of old and new lute songs and solos. Joined by the Mignarda duo, McFarlane will perform his own compositions for voice and lute, together with music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Blending ancient and modern styles, he creates new music that is tonal and rhythmic in structure and played with consummate skill. Reviewers have described Ronn McFarlane as "probably the finest living exponent of his instrument" (The Times Colonist, Victoria, B.C.), and his playing as possessing "...a timeless charm and pith that are captured with effortless grace..." (TIME Magazine).
The Smart Monkey Organic Cafe 335 Elmira Road in Ithaca, New York Admission: $15 general, $10 seniors & students, kids under 12 free The first concert of the series will highlight the duo's collaboration with special guest artist and lute virtuoso, Ronn McFarlane, of the Baltimore Consort. Join us for a summer evening of Elizabethan songs, 16th century lute solos and duets, traditional ballads and folk music from the British Isles, and vibrant and touching new music for lute and voice composed by Ronn McFarlane. NOTE: Concerts in the Sunday Evening series are presented after the cafe's regular hours so that we may enjoy the unique acoustics of the space without distraction. A special selection of the Smart Monkey's famous coffees, teas, and delectables will be offered for sale at intermission. 
MI FA MORIRE: English and Italian Renaissance lutesongs
Morrison Center Recital Hall at Boise State University 1910 University Drive in Boise, Idaho Tickets: $10 general, $5 students A special concert of Italian and English music from 1560-1620. Join us for a program that includes dazzling music by little-known composer, Hippolito Tromboncino as well as an Italian-flavored musical banquet by Elizabethan lute virtuoso John Dowland. Also featured will be lute solos that were later transcribed by Ottorino Respighi in his popular "Ancient Airs & Dances".
This performance is sponsored by Joe and Jan Baldassarre & the Boise Early Music Society, with the co-operation of the Boise State University Music Department and the Boise State University Guitar Society.
 AU PRES DE VOUS: Petrarch's 'Canzoniere' and 16th century French lyric verse
McKenzie Theatre at Eastern Oregon University One University Boulevard in La Grande, Oregon Tickets: $5 all seats This program of song settings of 16th century French lyric verse will highlight the poetry of Ronsard and Marot, and will trace the influence of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the courts and intellectual circles of 16th century France. Mignarda duo is pleased to be appearing in La Grande as part of the International Language and Cultural Festival.
This performance is sponsored by the Eastern Oregon University Language Department and the Community School of the Arts.
The School House Retreat and Cultural Center 8448 Wagner Creek Road in Talent, Oregon Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors, $5 students, kids under 12 free
Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 8:00pm Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors and OSF employees, $5 students, kids under 12 free A very special concert of music from the duo's latest CD, My Lord of Oxenford's Maske, featuring music and poetry centered around Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and his circle. We're thrilled to be joined for this concert by internationally acclaimed lute virtuoso, Ronn McFarlane.
This concert celebrates the release of Mignarda's new CD,
7:30 pm The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland, Ohio The Mignarda Duo is delighted to return once again to the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus to present a concert of music by Elizabethan composer and lute virtuoso, John Dowland (Orpheus Anglicus), and his successor to the title, Henry Purcell (Orpheus Britannicus). Dowland, well-known as a master of melancholy music, also composed several brilliant love songs, some of which will be performed in our special concert program in honor of Valentine's Day. The program will also feature a personal selection of later 17th-century songs by Henry Purcell.
Join us in Trumansburg for a program including some of our favorite music: ballads known to have caused grown men to cry and quirky Scots tunes demonstrated to have caused persons with two left feet to actually tap them in time to the music!
LECTURE/RECITAL: Nicholas Lanier and Constantin Huygens
John Carroll University 20700 North Park Blvd in University Heights, Ohio
8:00 pm St. Luke Lutheran Church 109 Oak Avenue in the Collegetown neighborhood of Ithaca, New York A special mini-concert featuring music from a new program in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the first published book of lute music. (Preceded at 7:00pm by a short vesper service featuring a performance of Bach's Cantata 150 by the St. Luke choir & chamber orchestra. Join us for the entire evening, or come at 8pm for the lutesong duo only.)
THE KING'S MUSIC/DIVINE AMARILLIS
7:00 pm The Lyceum School 2062 Murray Hill Road in Cleveland, Ohio's Little Italy $12 admission; discount for students & Lyceum families The first half of the program, called 'The King's Music,' will feature music centered around the court of Henry VIII, whose appetite for music matched that of his more famous tastes. The second half of the program will feature the sumptuous music from 17th century France heard on their new CD Divine Amarillis, which has been selected by Cleveland classical radio station WCLV as a Choice CD for the month of July 2006. The Mignarda Duo are delighted to be returning to the Lyceum, an independent Catholic school providing a Classical education focused on forming the intellect, the imagination, and the emotions of students so that they are able to respond to and delight in the beautiful.
RONDEAU: A FRESH LOOK AT MUSIC OF THE 15th CENTURY suggested donation $12 The Mignarda Duo return to St. Stanislaus to present the enchanting results of their immersion into the earliest examples of lute songs from 15th century France by composers Ockeghem, Busnois, Ghizeghem and Morton. Also featured will be Italian lute solos from the earliest surviving lute manuscripts and published sources, and the dynamic frottole of Tromboncino and Cara.
3:00 pm at the Danby Town Hall 3649 Route 96B in Danby, New York, just south of Ithaca Free Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart are delighted to be appearing in their new home town. They'll present a program of their favorite music from England, Scotland, France and Italy from the period 1500-1620.
This concert also celebrates the release of our new CD, Divine Amarillis: Airs de Court 1570-1620. The concert series is sponsored by the Danby Community Council, and is made possible in part with public funds from the community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County/NYS Council on the Arts Decentralization program.
8:00 pm The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland, Ohio's Slavic Village Join the full ensemble as we return to one of our favorite Cleveland venues to present a new program we're calling Mi fa morire, (or, 'Fun with the Hexachord'). We'll feature English & Italian music for lute and voices by Elizabethan lute virtuoso and composer, John Dowland and his Italian contemporaries Luca Marenzio, Angelo Notari, and Claudio Monteverdi.
7:00 pm First Unitarian Society Corner of Aurora & Buffalo in Ithaca, New York Admission: $12 The Mignarda Duo will perform their popular program "Goe Nightly Cares", featuring the music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as French dance tunes and courtly airs from circa 1620.
Mignarda Duo will appear in a master class with lutenist Hopkinson Smith at the Longy School of Music's Pickman Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Longy School of Music and the Cambridge Society for Early Music join forces to present a dynamic master class with one of the world's great lutenists. This event is open to the public and will feature Longy students and guest participants. Admission: $10 general; Longy students admitted free with Longy ID. For tickets or more information, contact the Longy School of Music at (617) 876-0956 ext. 500, or the Cambridge Society for Early Music at (617)-489-2062.
Mignarda Duo will be special guest artists at the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society's second annual benefit concert. Proceeds will support the 2005-2006 JCGS Concert Series, which will feature three world class concert guitarists in concerts and master classes. General admission tickets are $15, and can be purchased in advance at "CD Or Not CD", 343 East Main St., in Ashland or at Central Art Supply, 101 N. Central Ave, in Medford. Tickets will also be available at the door. For more information, call 552-9515 or visit the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society.
Mignarda Duo will be featured in performance and in a lecture-recital at the Ashland Authorship Conference. Co-sponsored by The Shakespeare Oxford Society and the Shakespeare Fellowship, the conference will take place at the historic Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival. More information on the conference may be found at
7:30 pm Grace Lutheran Church 1120 Walker Street in Port Townsend, Washington Suggested donation: $12 The Mignarda Duo will perform their popular program "Goe Nightly Cares", featuring the music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as French dance tunes and courtly airs from circa 1620.
8:00 pm Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 87 Fourth Street in Ashland, Oregon
Tickets: $12, $8 Students In our Ashland debut, the Mignarda Duo will present a program featuring the multi-layered Jacobean era music and poetry of John Dowland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Nicholas Lanier, as well as lighter fare in the form of French dances and courtly airs from circa 1620.
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens 714 North Portage Path in Akron, Ohio
Tickets: $22, $18 Stan Hywet Members Join us in the opulence of the Music Room at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens for a sumptuous and entertaining pastiche of mid-sixteenth century Italian vocal music by Verdelot, Festa, de Rore, Palestrina, Tromboncino, and Marenzio. The program will also feature solo songs from the Bottegari lute manuscript and lute solos that were later arranged by Ottorino Respighi in his popular Ancient Airs & Dances suites.
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PSALMS & MEASURED VERSE: MUSIC OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE (Mignarda Duo)
The Lyceum School Corner of Murray Hill and Paul, one block south of Mayfield Road in Cleveland's Little Italy
Tickets: $12 to benefit the Lyceum available at the door The Mignarda Duo, in collaboration with The Lyceum School, presents a special program of music from 16th-century France, featuring psalm and song settings of the poetry of Marot and Ronsard.
The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street in Cleveland's Slavic Village The Mignarda Duo returns to St. Stanislaus to perform 16th-century music from the courts of the Valois kings. Featured composers include Sermisy, Clemens, LeRoy and Morlaye.
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ITALIA MIA (full ensemble) (program as described above)
A series of three 35-minute sets of solo lute song, featuring Mignarda Duo: mezzo soprano Donna Stewart and lutenist Ron Andrico. These very informal concerts of 16th century Italian songs and dance tunes will be offered three times during the Feast of the Assumption, but the two Saturday sets are completely different programs, so come more than once if you like. A freewill offering will be taken to benefit the school.
Dowland's finest masterpieces of melancholy from 'A Pilgrim's Solace', his last book of songs. Most of the songs were published for solo voice with lute accompaniment, but many can be performed with four or more voices, a seldom-heard option which was offered during this program.
Featuring 16th century music of Polish composer Jakob Reys, with courtly French airs from the same period by Jean Baptiste Besard, Antoine Boesset, Pierre Guedron, and others. | ||||||
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HARMONIA CAELESTIS: 16th century Spanish Motets for Voice & Lute
NOEL NOUVELET: Lute songs and solos for the winter season
AU PRES DE VOUS
