Regarding our own Columbus Guitar Society (CGS)
8:00 pm, Saturday, 12 March 2011 will find the Columbus Guitar Society Members’ Ensemble (Waverly Wilkerson, Director) delivering a tasty program of guitar ensembles and solos, “A Winter Evening of Guitar Music”, at Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. In addition, the Suzuki guitar students of Lewis Charles will be warming up the crowd at 7:45. Even more affordable than most of our ridiculously affordable concerts, admission to this one the scant sum of $5! If you’re not playing there, shouldn’t you be there to listen? …And bring all your friends to bolster our coffers and help ensure the future of our professional series? There really is no excuse to not.
As I suspect you, my plucky brethren and sistren, know, the old host of our informal, monthly gatherings, Borders Books and Music, has filed for bankruptcy and is closing their Ohio stores. Shortly after that announcement, I was assured they would be open and able to host us through March. Yes, they will still be open, but I learned only at the beginning of this week that they have sold off their furniture and are not able to host our meeting. After some brief consultation with our members and some very hasty discussions with potential venues, the situation has been resolved through a new host. So…
This here is to serve as all you lot’s monthly informal reminder of the monthly informal meeting of the Columbus Guitar Society. March’s meeting falls on Saturday, 19 March 2011, from 1 pm until we get tired of being there, the new there being the Barnes & Noble at the Lennox Town Center, 1739 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43212, 614-298-9516. Members of the ensemble, come on out and relive the glory of the previous week’s performance; as always, your absence will earn my ridicule. Any other readers who so desire, swing by with your 6-string guitar (of course), requinto, 5-course guitar, 4-course guitar, vihuela da mano, viola da terra, oud, renaissance lute, baroque lute, cittern, theorbo, charango, archcittern, Neapolitan mandolin, mandolino, gittern, English guittar, chitarra battente, (heaven forefnd…) banjo, strumento a pizzico ad infinitum and play us some art music of any era on whatever you happen to be pining to pluck, or just come out to chat and listen. The setting is casual and supportive in the extreme. I’d love to meet all you lot out there.
Hopkinson Smith, venerable overlord of early plucked strings, will be giving a concert cosponsored by our own Columbus Guitar Society and Early Music in Columbus. That concert, entitled “De los Castillos y Calles de España: Spanish Guitar Music of the 17th Century”, will be performed entirely on five-course guitar. The 1 April 2011 concert begins at 8:00 and is preceded by a brief lecture at 7:30 pm. It all takes place at Capital University’s Mees Auditorium and tickets are available in advance from Early Music or Ticketmaster.com. (Of course, I’ll write more on that event as April approaches.)
In addition, at 2 pm on 2 April, I have committed Hoppy to offer a master class in Capital University’s Kern’s Religious Life Center, Columbus, OH. The fee to participate will be US$60. If you can make your way to Columbus, OH come April—lute or early guitar incarnation in hand (or even modern guitar if you’d really like)—and would like me to hold a performance spot for you, please reply to this e-mail ASAP. After I confirm available space, a check made out to the Columbus Guitar Society will confirm your spot. Act fast: there are only three performance spots remaining! The fee to simply attend as an auditor will be $15 at the door. Feel free to also reply with any questions you may have.
Elsewhere in the vastly sophisticated pluckland of Ohio
8:00 pm, Friday, 11 March 2011 (yes, this very evening): Columbus’ own early-music band, the Early Interval, presents “Spanish Splendor” on the concert series of Early Music in Columbus in Capital University’s Mees Auditorium. See links for detail.
2:00 pm, Saturday, 12 March 2011: Ronald Pearl (previously of the world-renowned Gray-Pearl Duo) will give a master class for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Auditing the master class is free. See the Cleveland society’s event page for detail.
2:00 pm, Sunday, 13 March 2011: Ronald Pearl will be delivering an exciting recital for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Again, see the Cleveland society’s event page for detail.
8:00 pm, Friday, 18 March 2011: Past Guitar Foundation of America champion Martha Masters will be performing at the University of Dayton’s Sears Recital Hall. Admission is free. Click here for detail. I’ll actually be speaking about carp at a conference in Celina that day, but am hoping to make the drive down to Dayton for this one. Care to join me on site?
Until then, plonk!
Eugene
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