KU Collegium Musicum presents holiday concert

LAWRENCE-he University of Kansas Collegium Musicum will present “Early Music for the Holiday Season, or, The Return of the Crumhorns” on Thursday, December 8, 2011, 7:30 PM in the Bales Organ Recital Hall. The Instrumental Collegium Musicum is directed by Paul Laird, professor of musicology, and the Vocal Collegium Musicum is directed by Chris Krampe, a doctoral student in choral conducting. The concert will include music for the holiday season from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries and feature the joyous sound of four crumhorns, a Renaissance-capped reed instrument with a distinctively raucous tone, as part of the ensemble in a suite of dances by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630). Other highlights include a performance of a movement from the Mass of Notre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut (c 1300-1377) and a recently “discovered” suite of dances from Handel’s Messiah.

Bales Recital Hall
1600 Stewart Drive Lawrence, KS 66045
(KU campus)
785-864-3436

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Professor Paul Laird at 785-864-9716 or the KU School of Music at 785-864-3436. http://www.music.ku.edu