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Viola da Gamba Dojo: A Cross-Generational Community Learns to Love the Viol PHOTO: SUSAN DAILY A recent Dojo session at the apartment of Martha Bixler in NYC. HERE DID YOU first run across early music? Did you take viol or recorder lessons at a community music school from someone like Grace Feldman, who has taught for more than a half century at New Haven's Neighborhood Music School? Did your music camp have an early instrument program, like the one that Mark Cudek has directed at Interlochen National Music Camp for four decades? Or did you wander into a collegium rehearsal at college as I did 45 years ago at Oberlin, when I dropped into Dean Nuernberger's office to retrieve a book and left with a tenor viol? In Manhattan, it could happen some Saturday morning if you were to knock on the door of Martha W Bixler's Upper West Side apartment, to find more than a dozen viol players of all ages and abilities participating in John Mark Rozendaal's Viola da Gamba Dojo. A viol player and Baroque cellist, Rozendaal started the Viola da Gamba Dojo in 2001 as a class at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois. When he moved to New York in 2004, he brought it with him. He and his enthusiastic students were interviewed at the bi-annual Dojo Play-In held in June. Adopting learning styles from Suzuki, karate, intergenerational choirs, and ballet school, John Mark Rozendaal is a guru of the viol in New York City By Tina Chancey First of all, why group classes? JMR: Music students do best when given the chance to meet each other and to have the pleasure and edification of ensemble playing. Choirs, orchestras, Early Music America Fall 2014 37

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Fall 2014

Editor’s Note
Baroque Competition
Sound Bytes
Musings: Ave Atque Vale
Musings: Ave Atque Vale
Recording Reviews
Recording Reviews
Aetas Aurea: An Early Music Macbeth
Aetas Aurea: An Early Music Macbeth
Mysterious Titles, Hidden Meaning
Mysterious Titles, Hidden Meaning
Viola da Gamba Dojo
Viola da Gamba Dojo
A Joyful Noise: Highlights of BFX 2014
A Joyful Noise: Highlights of BFX 2014
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
EMA Donations
EMA Donations
Ad Index
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Sam Franko and the Origins of the Early Music Movement
In Conclusion: Sam Franko and the Origins of the Early Music Movement

Early Music America Fall 2014