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.

 

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