THE CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY OF ORGAN STUDIES

The Summer Course in 2008 runs from July 28 to August 1.

It will follow the pattern of previous years with a mixture of group sessions, individual tuition on participant’s own choice of repertoire and personal practice time.

Accommodation comprising bed, breakfast and evening meal is as before at Sidney Sussex College.

The tutors are again David Ponsford and Anne Page.

The proposed special study topic this year is French music - the grand narrative from French classical to Messiaen, with all stations in between!

A selection of Cambridge organs suitable for the repertoire will be available.
 
The price is £450 for residential and £250 for non-residential participants.
 
If you are interested in joining the Summer Course this year please either e-mail

to roger@lander.powernet.co.uk  telephone 01223-240026

or use the booking form

Further programme details will be posted here as soon as they are available
 

Outline of CAOS summer course, July 28 to August 1 2008. 

French music from before the Grand Siècle to the modern age.

 Evening sessions (Monday to Thursday) will include recitals and lectures:

David Ponsford discusses his work on the forthcoming new edition of de Grigny, performs part of Couperin's Messe pour les Paroisses and elucidates Messiaen's organ works.

Anne Page plays a recital on the new Jesus College organ (by Kuhn) and on a Mustel harmonium and talks about the romantic century and early modernism in French organ music.

 Morning sessions for the class (Tuesday to Friday) will focus in turn on the 17th/18th, 19th and 20th centuries allowing a more detailed look at topics such as use of plainsong, sonority, editions and performance practice.

Students are encouraged to bring their own discoveries of pieces to play and talk about to the group.

Individual lessons on students' own choice of repertoire will also take place in the mornings.

Organs available for private practice during the afternoons

 Afternoon sessions (Tuesday to Thursday) 4-00 pm to 6-00 pm take the form of performance classes on instruments as appropriate as possible in style for the period of the music.

 The culminating event is the students' concert before lunch on Friday morning.

 Composers well-known and not so well-known who might figure in choices of

repertoire: Titelouze, Racquet, Roberday, Louis and Francois Couperin, Gigault, Lebègue, Nivers, Geoffroy, D'Angelbert, Raison, Boyvin, Jullien, Dandrieu, Marchand, Corrette, de Grigny, du Mage, Clérambault, Guilain, Daquin, Calvière, Balbastre, Beauvarlet-Charpentier (J-J and J-M), Lasceux, Séjan, Boëly, Thomas, Alkan, Lefébure-Wély, Gounod, Batiste, Franck, Loret, Salomé, Saint-Saëns, Guilmant, Dubois, Widor, Gigout, Boëllmann, Pierné, Tournemire, Vierne (René and Louis), Roger-Ducasse, Mulet, Alain (Albert and Jehan), Bonnet, Dupré, Duruflé, Langlais, Messiaen, Litaize, etc.

 Notes:

1. No bar facilities available at Sidney Sussex, but many bars and pubs in
the immediate area.
2. Luggage storage will be arranged in college as rooms need to be vacated
before the 9am session on Friday.
3. Parking by special arrangement on the college playing fields at 162A
Huntingdon Road (on the left as you come into Cambridge along the Huntingdon
Road). Go through the first set of gates but not the second set - park
somewhere suitable between the two sets of gates. Buses are quite frequent
along that road but I don't know their route. Or taxis - tel. 01223 715715,
01223 711111, 01223 242424 gives a selection of local companies.
4. Contact numbers: Sidney Sussex College Porters Lodge 01223 338800.
CAOS Office  01223 240026.

 

Last modified: 22-Oct-2007