Second Sunday: Early Music Ensemble

Music from middle ages, Renaissance, and Baroque

The March 14 Second Sunday Concert sponsored by the Department of Music, WAUS and the Howard Performing Arts Center will feature the Andrews University Early Music Ensemble Directed by Linda Mack. Enjoy an afternoon of music bringing to life music from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance to the Baroque. The music will be played on original instruments, viols, recorders, harp, krumhorns, wooden flute, harpsichord and percussion, by musicians reviving performances of the past.  The program will include works by: Monteverdi, Gibbons, Byrd, and Praetorius. This concert is free of charge.
 

Early music has been a part of the Andrews University musical scene since the early 1970's.  The first serious group Capella da camera was established by musicologist Hans-Jargen Holman. The current group performs in concerts, school assemblies, church services, lecture-recitals, benefits, weddings, and other events around the Michiana area. The ensemble has presented its popular "Blast from the Past," a school field trip program that has introduced early music and its place in society, to over 4,000 Michiana school children. Andrews University Early Music Ensemble members, all musicians with professional training, are currently or retired teachers or librarians.
Director Linda Mack was a member of the original group Capella da camera and had been a member of the current group for several years before taking the directorship.  In 1972 she earned her Master of Music in Organ Performance from Andrews University. Moving to Salt Lake City, Utah, she expanded her career as an ensemble keyboardist performing with vocalists and instrumentalists, early music and brass ensembles, choruses and orchestras, for radio broadcasts as well as concerts. In 1987 she completed her Master's of Library and Information Science and returned to Andrews as a librarian. Since 1993 she has been the director of the Music Materials Center of the James White Library. In addition to her library work and research, Mack continues to perform extensively specializing in ensemble work and church music. She is currently organist/choir director at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Dowagiac, Mich., and is program annotator and keyboardist for the Andrews University orchestras.


Personnel
Linda Mack, director, harpsichord, recorder
Lynn Bayley, viol, recorder
Richard Bayley, viol, recorder
Sharon Fekete, recorder, krumhorn
Lauren Matacio, viol, recorder, flute
Takako Matychuk, viol, recorder, krumhorn
Debra Parker, harp, recorder, krumhorn, voice