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5 pm - Early Music Now

  • 17 Mar 2012
  • 5:00 PM
  • UWM, Helene Zelazo Center
“New Waves in Ferrara: Two Bands, Fresh Sounds” University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee’s
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 17 th, 2012 at 5:00
.

Preceded by EMN’s annual
Silent Auction and Chocolate Reception
beginning at 3:00

Admission sections may be purchased online at www.earlymusicnow.org ,   by phone at 414.225.3113, or from the UWM Box Office at 414.229.4308. Available ticket prices are adult/senior $25-$40 and student $10-$20.

Milwaukee's Early Music Now continues its 25 th anniversary celebration with a program combining two long-time favorite groups, combining 13 of the most respected and active early music performers in the United States. The five members of Piffaro , a Renaissance Wind Band from Pittsburgh, and the seven members of King’s Noyse , a Renaissance string ensemble centered in Chicago, will be joined by renowned soprano Ellen Hargis in an exploration of the music and cultural life of Ferrara – one of the greatest centers of the courtly arts in Renaissance Italy.

This program was originally conceived and performed a year ago as a combined project of these two well-known ensembles as part of the celebration of Piffaro’s own 25 th Anniversary. The organizations were delighted to have the opportunity to bring the program to Milwaukee for Early Music Now’s 25 th Anniversary Celebration. This concert has received funding from the Performing Arts Fund of Arts Midwest.

The string ensemble King’s Noyse includes director David Douglass, Brandi Berry, Robert Mealy, David Morris, and Shira Kammen, who also performed in EMN’s most recent program. The members of Piffaro include co-directors Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken, Grant Herreid, Greg Ingles, Christa Patton, Priscilla Smith, and Tom Zajac, all of whom perform on multiple wind and/or percussion instruments including bagpipes, shawm, dulcian, recorder, harp, and pipe & tabor. Each of these virtuosic performers, including soprano Ellen Hargis, has performed several times previously on the Early Music Now series, often as members of other early music organizations.

Promoted by Early Music Now as “Celebrating Renaissance Grandeur I,” the program focuses on courtly entertainments that would have been composed for the pleasure of princes or popes, including music by Carlo Gesualdo, Giorgio Mainerio, Pierre Phalese, Cipriano de Rore, Gasparo Zanetti, and, of course, Anonymous. (A later concert on April 22 nd , “Celebrating Renaissance Grandeur II,” will be performed by two European ensembles new to EMN: Quartet New Generation (QNG) and Ensemble Calmus Leipzig.)

This Saturday, March 17th performance at the UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard in Milwaukee, begins at 5:00, and will be preceded by a silent auction and chocolate reception beginning at 3:00. Premium seating is sold out, but tickets in the preferred and general admission sections may be purchased online at www.earlymusicnow.org ,   by phone at 414.225.3113, or from the UWM Box Office at 414.229.4308. Available ticket prices are adult/senior $25-$40 and student $10-$20.

For further information about this Saturday, March 17th event, visit www.earlymusicnow.org , call 414.225.3113, or email info@earlymusicnow.org .


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