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Dr. Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.)
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Box 90665
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What Can a Modern Singer Learn from Early Instruments?
March 28, 2008
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
Penelope Jensen
with Deborah Hollis, Rebecca Troxler, and Brenda Neece
What did those singers who performed the music of their contemporaries, Bach and Schubert for instance, sound like? How did they use their voices? We can begin to answer that question by listening to the instruments of their time. Soprano Penelope Jensen will be joined by Deborah Hollis playing a Baroque-style portative organ and a piano from DUMIC’s Eddy Collection built by Muzio Clementi in London c.1810. Rebecca Troxler will bring her baroque flute and Brenda Neece her 5-string cello piccolo to play arias of J.S. Bach. With the Clementi, you will hear songs written in London c.1810 by William Linley and lieder of Schubert from that era.