This is the first official announcement of my concert season fast approaching. Here is it is to date:
Sep 29 - Clarksville, TN - Austin Peay State University
Oct 5 - Franklin, TN - Columbia State Community College, Williamson Campus
Oct 10 - Sumter Co., FL. - Odell Community Center, The Villages
Oct 19 - Sewanee, TN - All Saints Chapel, University of the South
Oct 20 - Murfreesboro, TN - MTSU
The big one for me is at All Saints. It's a magnificent cathedral in a very arts loving community, and likely my largest audience, and personally most import to me as it's my home community. This concert really is far overdue. It may very well be the first faculty guitar recital in that space in the 150+ yr history of the University.
I've planned a really colorful concert and at my home concerts, I will be using all 4 instruments in the above photo. The LK Brown "Hans Frei" 8 course Renaissance Lute, the standard Traphagen Spruce (face up), the Ruck cedar (on right) tuned to G, and the Zeb Turrentine lattice spruce (left) in "Turkish tuning". When I travel I'll take just 3 instrument and retune the Trap in the "Turkish tuning".
I'm playing a sizable lute set with 7 dances, 2 by Dalza to start then the rest Elizabethan ... Dowland and ending with Monsier's Amaine, the big piece of the set. Could take 15.
I decided just in the last few days to use the Ruck tuned to G for the Rameau variations, which I have not performed in 15 yrs. It's going pretty well. Why in G? Guess what, that was the pitch of Rameau's harpsichord. It is well documented that French Baroque harpischordists played in A=392. Down a whole step. Written in A, sounds in G. Perfect.
I'll be playing the Trap for the Spanish rep and the fingerstyle stuff, then end with the movt's 1,2,4 of Koyunbaba. I think it works better than playing that long droning 3rd mov't.
I've also volunteered to play at local churches and the local private school. I'm putting in at least 4 hrs practice a day, and it's going pretty well.
