Our Eighth Annual Central PA Early Music Festival is going to be held on June 8 (concert) and June 9 (workshop) in Lancaster, PA. Workshop faculty includes Gwyn Roberts, Mark Rimple, Frank Oberschelp, and Rainer Beckmann. The concert features recorder virtuoso Frank Oberschelp from Germany together with La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. Please click here for the Festival brochure and a registration form for download.
We very much look forward to another great Early Music Festival and hope to see you there!
Thank you very much,
Edy Sarnoff President Pommerian Early Music Guild
Rainer Beckmann Festival Steering Committee


Early Music News in South Central PA and Northern Maryland

Piffaro Comes to Central PA for a week-long celebration of education and great music!

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, will be visiting students at Gettysburg Middle, Fairfield Elementary and Upper Adams High School with an artist residency this next week (mid-September) sponsored by Adams Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Touchstone Energy. The ensemble recreates the elegant sounds of the professional wind bands of the late medieval and renaissance periods, as well as the rustic music of the peasantry. Piffaro's collections of shawms, sackbuts, ducians, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars and a variety of percussion, are careful reconstructions of the instruments from the period.

Adams County Arts Council and the Gettysburg College Sunderman Chamber Music Foundation Concert Series are excited to have Piffaro present a wind symphony workshop (Sept. 21, 4-6p.m., Majestic Theater main stage), music history class (Sept. 22, 2:25-4 p.m., Majestic Theater Cinema 1), Renaissance dance workshop (Sept. 22, 8-10 p.m. Luella Musselman Paul Recital Hall), and a workshop in performance practices (Sept. 23, 3-4 p.m., Luella Musselman Paul Recital Hall) . For more details see www.adamsarts.org. Piffaro, The Renaissance Band will perform on Sept. 23, at 8 p.m., at Luella Musselman Paul Recital Hall in the Schmucker Memorial Hall, at Gettysburg College. The community is invited to attend these free workshops and concert.

Funding support comes from PNC Bank, Brobyn Charitable Trust, Liberty Mountain Resort and Sunderman Conservatory. This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Heinz Endowments, the William Penn Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, and The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by MidAtlantic Arts Foundation.

 

 

Third Annual History Through the Arts Summer Camp
Traveling Through Time!
June 25-29, 2012 at the Menallen Friends Meetinghouse in Aspers, PA for children ages 7-17.
Five wonderful days filled with travel adventures across the ages.

There will be:
Art, music, drama, dancing, and games
Fieldtrips to explore train rides, canoeing, antique cars and swimming!

Student fees are $95 for the whole week!
click here to see the registration form
Please call (717)677-7072 or email: earlymusik@embarqmail.com to register or for more information

Here's what families' are saying:

History Through the Arts Camp was a unique opportunity for my children to personally experience history. They are still talking about entering the time machine and finding a soldier under the tree. They participated in a wide variety of leisure activities that enthralled all three of my children and made the past very real and understandable.
Cady A

History Through the Arts camp was fun for my daughter and a purpose for me. She had a terrific time while learning history and experiencing the arts through talented and caring camp leaders. Thanks so much for continuing to offer this camp! Shirley M