Please note that this schedule is provisional; a full schedule will be published as soon as it is available.
Date |
Time |
Activity |
Wednesday 15 July |
from 12.00 |
Conference Registration Open |
15.30 |
Informal welcome activity: Professor Jamie Savan invites conference delegates to join him in a rehearsal and scratch performance of music from Ignazio Donati’s Salmi boscarecci (1623): bring your instruments and your voices and let’s see how many parts we can muster! Informal performance at 16.30 |
|
17.00 |
Opening Concert: John Butt plays Bach and Couperin |
|
18.00 |
Drinks Reception |
|
Thursday 16 July |
9.00–17.30 |
Parallel sessions with lunch and refreshment breaks |
18.00 |
Public Concert: Fretwork Viols and Ex Cathedra Scholars (dir. William Hunt) perform English consort anthems |
|
Friday 17 July |
9.00–16.00 |
Parallel sessions with lunch and refreshment breaks |
13.00–14.00 |
Public Concert: The Musical and Amicable Society present a programme of music from provincial music societies in eighteenth-century England. (This concert is kindly sponsored by the Handel Institute: https://handelinstitute.org) |
|
16.00–18.00 |
Business Meeting |
|
19.30 |
Conference Banquet (at Birmingham Council House) |
|
Saturday 18 July |
9.00–17.30 |
Parallel sessions with lunch and refreshment breaks |
19.30 |
Public Concert: Ex Cathedra, 'Harmonic Spiritual Theatre': music by Monteverdi, Carissimi, Charpentier, Bouzignac and Anerio. |
|
Sunday 19 July |
9.00–12.45 |
Parallel sessions with refreshment break |
13.00–20.00 |
Excursion Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon with visit to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Choral Evensong in Holy Trinity Church, performed by Ex Cathedra Scholars and RBC Cornetts and Sackbuts. |