Amherst Early Music Historical Harp Conference

Marlena Schilke (schilke@husc.harvard.edu)
Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:01:45 -0400 (EDT)

Amherst Early Music Festival Historical Harp Conference
Saturday and Sunday, August 10-11, 1996
Amherst College Campus, Amherst Massachusetts

Saturday, Aug 10, Converse Hall
9:00 Registration and Playing Sessions
Informal reading of medieval, renaissance and traditional music
(all levels welcome)

noon Lunch, Instrument Makers Fair

Buckley Recital Hall, Music Building
2:00 Historical Harp Concert
3:30 AEM first week student concert
evening AEM first week faculty concert

Sunday, Aug. 11, Converse Hall
9:00 Registration
9:30 William Taylor: "A Wire Strung Pictish Harp"
10:30 Nancy Thym-Hochrein: "The Krogharpe (the Norse Harp)"

noon Lunch Break & Instrument Maker's Fair

1:30 Siohban Armstrong: "The Musical Environment of 18th Century
Dublin"

2:30 Reception and English Country Dancing

Registration fee $35 includes both days and all Concerts
(no fee to visit just the Instrument Makers Fair)
Meals available on and off campus
Single night rooms on campus at $30 per night
(Please e-mail 73140.3727@compuserve.com now to reserve a room)
To find Converse Hall, follow signs from Route 9 and Amherst College
campus.