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soundbytes Don’t forget: March is Play-the-Recorder Month! (Visit www.americanrecorder.org/events/ptrm.htm.) Compiled by Mark Longaker Schola Antigua of Chicago Scoring Grants Portland Baroque Orchestra has received grants total- ing $52,500 from three private foundations since October. Grants from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation ($25,000), the Roy and Diane Martin Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation ($20,000), and the Herbert A. Templeton Foundation ($7,500) will help support PBO’s development of artistic programming and new accessibility, education, and outreach initiatives. 4 Spring 2013 Early Music America only U.S. entrant in the prestigious contest, which featured 16 groups from countries that also included Germany, the Philippines, Finland, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Latvia, the U.K., and the Ukraine. Mallarme Chamber Players in Durham, NC, received a Challenge America Fast-Track grant in the amount of $10,000 in December. The money will support the North Carolina Historically Informed Practices Festival, Handel and Haydn Society Receives Gifts Totaling $2 Million Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society recently received gifts totaling $2 million to endow its chorus and educational programs. A gift of $1 million from Jane and Wat Tyler will fund the society’s chorus, and a gift of $1 million from Karen Levy will support the Karen S. and George D. Levy Educational Outreach Program. These milestone gifts are the largest in Society’s 198-year history and come as the organization approaches its bicentennial in 2015 and prepares for a campaign to fund new strategic initiatives and endowment. Board chairman Nick Gleysteen said, “Wat Tyler and Karen Levy have each given many years of service and support to Handel and Haydn. These remarkable gifts are a testament to their leadership, passion, and dedication, and will help support the artistic and education excellence of H&H for many years to come.” PHOTO: KYLE T. HEMINGWAY nalists for outstanding print, Schola Antigua of Chicago, broadcast, and news media a vocal ensemble specializing coverage of music. Anderson, the artistic director of Schola in music from before 1600, Antigua of Chicago, was rechas received the 2012 Noah ognized for his article “Fire, Greenberg Award, given by Foliage, and Fury: Vestiges of the American Musicological Society. The award recognizes Midsummer Ritual in Motets for John the Baptist,” pubefforts between scholars and performers to foster outstand- lished in the journal Early ing contributions to historical Music History by Cambridge performance practices. Schola University Press. Harry Christophers, the Antigua won for a proposal titled “Sounding the Neuma- artistic director of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, tized Sequence.” With guidhas been awarded the title of ance from University of OreCBE (Commander of the gon music historian Lori Order of the British Empire) Kruckenberg, the group will to honor his service to music. record and archive a set of The founder and conductor of special liturgical sequences the U.K.-based ensemble the that feature melodies both Sixteen, Christophers received with and without words his award during a December (called “neumatized 13 ceremony at Buckingham sequences”). Michael Alan Anderson, an Palace in London. The Rose Ensemble assistant professor of musicology at the Eastman School of received ﬁrst prize in both the sacred and secular music catMusic, won the 2012 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, present- egories at the 44th Tolosa Choral Contest (Certamen ed annually by the American Coral de Tolosa) in Spain last Society of Composers, fall. Based in St. Paul, MN, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to authors and jour- the Rose Ensemble was the Awards http://www.americanrecorder.org/events/ptrm.htm

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Spring 2013

Editor's Note
Reader Forum
Sound Bytes
Profile: Peter Nothnagle Early Music Engineer
Musings: Best of the Year
Recording Reviews
"Skillful Singing" and the Prelude in Renaissance Italy
Almira: Handel's Fountain of Youth?
Tempesta di Mare: Making a Splash with Fasch
2013 Guide: Workshops & Festivals
What I Did at Summer Camp
Book Reviews
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Teaching Recitative in Mexico

Early Music America Spring 2013