BLEMF 2009
Fringe events are listed below the main events on this page.
Friday May 15, 7pm | Buskirk-Chumley Theater
BLEMF Festival Orchestra; Stanley Ritchie, director, Shuann Chai, fortepiano
Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 10, in B Minor
Haydn: Symphony No. 31, in D Major, 'Hornsignal', Hob. I:31
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, in C Major, Op. 15
Fortunata
REMÈDE DE FORTUNE, Machaut
Wednesday 5.13, 7pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
Concerts Doux
Music from the Court of Louis XIV
Tuesday 5.19, 3pm
SoFA Gallery
Early Music Institute
Concentus Ensemble
The Recorder in the Cantatas of
J. S. Bach
Tuesday 5.19, 7pm
Recital Hall in Merrill Hall (Music Bldg)
Ein Musikalischer Spaß
Mozart Trios
Wednesday 5.20, 4pm
Monroe County Public Library
Pent-à-vent
Classical Woodwind Quintets
Thursday 5.21, 4pm
Monroe County Public Library
Fénix de los Ingenios
Early Music Ensemble
Vísperas de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
Joseph Ruiz-Samaniego
Sunday 5.24, 7pm
St. Thomas Lutheran Church
Saturday May 16, 3pm | St. Thomas Lutheran Church
Nigel North, Lute
Weiss: Sonata "L'Infidele"
Bach: Suite in B-flat Major (after BWV 1010); Sonata in G Minor
Saturday May 16, 7pm | First Presbyterian Church
L’AURA; Bernard Gordillo, director
"por selebrar" (To celebrate) - 17th Century Mexican, Spanish & Colombian music
SATURDAY EDUCATIONAL EVENTS
10am | MCPL Room 1 B/C: a musical hour with Brent Gault (Associate Prof. of Music Ed., IU JSoM and director of the IU Children's Choir). An hour of singing and movement. Best for pre-school and younger elementary children.
1:30pm | MCPL Room 1 B/C: a musical story hour with children's librarian, Mary Frasier. Stories with a musical theme masterfully told with accompaniment by BLEMF musicians; time for making a take-home craft. Best for pre-school and younger elementary children.
Sunday May 17, 2pm | Ford Hall
Shuann Chai, fortepiano
Schubert: Variations in F Major, D 156
Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata"
Czerny: Variations on "La Ricordanza"
Beethoven: An die Ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
Schubert: 3 Klivierst, D 946
Monday May 18, 7:30pm | Unitarian Universalist Church
2009 Early Music Institute Prize Winner Recital
This year's prize winners are Maho Sone, harpsichord and Antonio Santos, voice. Congratulations!
Music of Bach, Purcell, Froberger, García, Clérambault, Handel and more!
Tuesday May 19: Fringe Concerts
Wednesday May 20, 4-5pm | Monroe County Public Library Auditorium
BLEMF/MCCSC art/music project
exhibition and reception (see Education page)
Please come and support these fine young artists and their teachers!
Wednesday May 20, 7pm | Oliver Winery
The Universal Piston Horn Quartet
Featuring: R. J. Kelly, John Boen, Paul Avril,
Richard Seraphinoff, Frech Horn
Thursday May 21: Fringe Concert
Friday May 22, 7pm | First United Church
Hesperus
Ecco la primavera: A Medieval Italian Spring
Aspects of Love; Three by the Stork; One for Spring
Music, Love and the Virgin; Laude and Dances
Saturday May 23, 9:30-noon | Trinity Church, Great Hall
Medieval Studies Roundtable
9:30 with coffee, and presentations and discussion between 10 and noon
Roundtable participants & topics
Samuel N. Rosenberg: Old French lyric poetry
Rega Wood: Bartholomew's Word
Shannon Gayk: late medieval reliegious literature
Wolodymyr Smishkewych: medieval music TBA
Saturday May 23, 7pm | St. Thomas Lutheran Church
Chatham Baroque
Music of the German Baroque by Finger, Erlebach, Giovanni, Kapsperger, Biber, Schmelzer, Buxtehude, and Bach
SATURDAY EDUCATIONAL EVENTS
10am | MCPL Auditorium: Hesperus presents a musical program about Robin Hood. Best for elementary schoolers; fine for all with adult accompaniment.
1-3pm | MCPL Room 1 B/C: a Wonderlab Mini-fest. Bloomington's premier science museum for children brings 5-6 activities to the library for children of all ages and their caregivers to explore and discover elements of sound and music.
Sunday May 24, 2:30pm | Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
Hesperus
Live score of English renaissance music for Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 silent film 'Robin Hood'
Monday May 25, 2pm | First United Church
¡Sacabuche!
Linda Pearse, director
Vocal and baroque trombone music by Usper, Monteverdi, and others
