Organist, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Kingston, Rhode Island Pianist and Harpsichordist -- Chopin 200th birthday commemorative recitals in Boston and Fall River in the spring, upcoming programs of Pachelbel's domestic music and the astonishing keyboard music of Baroque Valencia. Piano and harpsichord tuner and technician -- specialising in historical tunings Founder-Director of the Fall River Fipple Fluters, an amateur recorder-playing group, and the Delight Consort, a professional Renaissance and Early Baroque ensemble Cabaniilles Passacalle III Valencia Cathedral Altar -- Where Cabanilles' Boys Danced	Renaissance bass recorder by Alec Loretto
"The Muenchkin"! Kevin Spindler copy of the Anonymous c. 1590 clavichord in the Deutsches Museum Munich. Completed 2006!!! Tuned in quarter-comma meantone with split d-shap/ e-flat in all octaves.	Muenchkin at home Add your content here
the Fall River Fipple Fluters at the Fall River Public Library	The Delight Consort, founded in 1992 to commemorate the quincentenary of Columbus' 'Discovery' of America with some real period music and intelligent commentary, sings and plays music of the 14th through tthe 18th centuries on recorders, cornetts, sackbutt, cello, viola, harpsichord, organ and harp. In 2003 it performed music of Thomas D'Urfey in honor of the 200th birthday of Fall River, MA, founded by Durfees. cornett and sackbutt

	The clavichord is the most expressive keyboard instrument ever created. It is the premier instrument for expressing your innermost feelings, for yourself. Pascal, in his Pensees, suggests that 'All the troubles of the world come from being unable to sit alone in a quiet room'; Pascal should have owned a clavichord. It is also the instrument that speaks at the meditative volume level of quiet conversation, among people who know each other well and care about each others' feelings and opinions.
	I especially like to play fretted clavichords; they are the instrument that was the premier at-home instrument for four centuries or so in the Western World. The unfretted clavichord of the 18th century is lovely, there is none lovelier for Mozart or CPE Bach or the wonderful composers of the Bohemian 18th century; but it was a rather short-lived instrument, of importance for perhaps 60 years, mainly in north-central Europe. It is softer than the older instrument and perhaps almost created as a protest as the world got noisier and less connected.
	Triple-Fretted Clavichord by Andreas Hermert after the Jerzy Wojcek 1688 Swedish clavichord Clavichord by Owen Daly after Wroclaw Monastery instructions c. 1470 keyed monochord, built by me
	The Delight Consort with Judith Conrad, Harpsichord Judith Conrad, Director, harpsichord, recorder and sackbutt , Frank Fitzpatrick, recorder and flute. Paul Ukleja, recorder, Irish Whistle, cornett and trumpet, and Otto Guzman, cello and recorder Music of Thomas Luis da Victoria, William Byrd, Turlouch O'Carolan, Claudin de Sermisy, Marin Marais and Joseph Haydn TWO PERFORMANCES: Friday, September 16th. 2011 at 7:30 PM Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Old North Road, Kingston RI Sunday, September 25th, 2011 3:00 PM Christ Church, 57 Main St. Swansea MA (the first part of the program here will be played at the Christ Church Labyrinth, with concertgoers encouraged to walk it meditatively during the music) The opening group is by Thomas Luis da Victoria, the great Renaissance Spanish composer who died 400 years ago this year. At the Swansea performance that group will be played outside, where they have just installed a labyrinth in front of the church; the audience will be encouraged to walk the labyrinth meditatively to the strains of great renaissance religious motets. Another unusual thing on the program is a group of music by Turlough O'Carolan on Irish Whistle with harpsichord and cello; Irish music c. 1700, originally for harp, printed only as a single melody line, but here played in the style of the Baroque music of the time. Solo Harpsichord music will be a group from the Fitzwilliam Virginal book, c. 1600 England, a few of the 1532 Jacques Attaingnant transcriptions of Claudin de Sermisy Chansons with the group playing the originals, and Haydn's last keyboard sonata. The harpsichord was built for Ms Conrad in the Italian style by Montreal builder Yves Beaupre.

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