Bergen Community College students, faculty, and other guests of international acclaim will present music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance on Thursday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ender Hall Laboratory Theatre, at Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus. All tickets are $5, and available by phoning 201-447-7143, or by purchasing tickets at the door the night of the event.
Award-winning guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist, John La Barbera, of Teaneck, is sure to enchant audience members with his eclectic musical talents. Performing on Renaissance instruments such as the ud, lute, guitarra and the tricabalaca, La Barbera will aim to take audience members on a historical journey to the past, performing the music of the Renaissance masters who contributed so much to music and creative artistry as a whole. La Barbera will perform classics such as Athanasius Kircher’s Antidotum Tarantolae, Alfred Reed’s Tarantella, and the anonymously composed, La Manfredina et la Rota.
Other Performers Will Include:
Bill Madden (recorder), of Ridgewood, and Michelle Temple (theorbo, guitar) will perform the anonymously composed, Psaalterellos and Istampita Ghaetta, and Francisco Landini’s Ecco La Primavera.
Ardis Cavin (harp), of Englewood, and Dr. Linda Marcel (harp), of Glen Rock, will perform a harp duet of Richard de Lion’s Je Nus Hons Pris.
Bronwen Eastwood (soprano), of Ridgewood, will be leading ARS Nova’s 2006 Renaissance madrigals.
Bergen Community College drama students will deliver readings from the student production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 14,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs, and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, and the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack. Information about the College is available at http://www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at 201-447-7200.
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