Friday, June 25th 2010
10h-19h Informal talks & music at the Café À Propos
Making Publics (MaPs) researchers from McGill and across Canada invite Festival-goers to a day of music & fascinating talks about the creation of new publics in the late Renaissance, an era of unprecedented scientific advancement and incomparable artistic achievement.
10h “Music and Publics”; post-graduate students from the Schulich School of Music (J. Hatter, D. Donnelly, R. Chiu; mod. J. Cumming, Assoc. Prof. of Music and MaPs co-investigator)
12h “Kepler, Galileo & the Dance of the Heavenly Spheres; L. Cormack
(This conference will be presented at the Château Ramezay)
14h “Baroque music, improvisation & the law”; E. Söderström (viola de gamba), D. Manderson (MaPs)
15h30 "Venice: Art, music, and literary publics"; MaPs’ B.Wilson, J. Cumming, W. Folkerth, M. Eberhart
17h “Shakespeare’s music”; P. Yachnin
2PM French Renaissance dance class at the Château Ramezay
Michel Landry
Saturday, June 26th 2010
12:30PM English Renaissance dance class at the Château Ramezay
Michel Landry
Sunday June 27th 2010
10AM Masterclass at the Château Ramezay
17th century Italian improvisation
Viva BiancaLuna (Italy)
1:00PM Talk at the Château Ramezay
"L'harmonie des sphères”; François Filiatrault, Festival's artistic advisor
