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Show Music for Festival provides added color I " - ,' i- f 0 (, Five carefully selected musicians music-ians have prepared more than 60 different pieces of music for performance before and during plays to be presented this season sea-son at the twelfth annual Utah Shakespearean Festival. Rr. Thomas Dudgeon and Virginia Vir-ginia Britten Dudgeon, San Diego, Calif., Paul Hart and Cheryl Hart, Duchesne, Utah, and Margaret Johnston, Kenll-worth, Kenll-worth, 111. are all specialists In early music and play many of the Renaissance Instruments needed for the Festival productions. produc-tions. Dr. Frederick K. Gable, returning re-turning for his fourth year as ' director of Festival music, said that singing will be emphasized empha-sized more In this year's pre-show pre-show performances. "We will present four-part madrigals, lute songs, and French Chansons from the 15th century, as well as consort songs for solo voice, recorders, and viols." "This year we have added cometto, sackbut, and natural trumpet to the more usual krummhorns, recorders, viols, and lute," Dr. Gable said. He explained that the cor-netto cor-netto is slightly curved wind Instrument with f 1 n gerholes like a recorder but played with ; a mouthpiece like a trumpet. j "It Is very difficult to control but has a delicate penetrating tone when played well," he said, "and was a virtuoso Instrument In-strument In the late Renaissance." Renais-sance." Dr. Gable described the sack-but sack-but by saying that it Is an ancestor an-cestor of the modern trombone, but has a narrower bore and less flared bell which gives It a smoother, mellower, softer tone. He said that the natural trumpet has no valves, so the player is able to control the pitches only with his lips. "It's the kind of trumpet used In all music before the early 19th century. The sound Is especially especial-ly clear and brilliant In the upper up-per registers," he explained. Dr. Gable is an associate professor pro-fessor or music at the University Univer-sity of California at Riverside where he directs the Collegium Muslcum and teaches music history courses and seminars In the performance of early music. He received his PhD in music-ology music-ology from the University of Iowa. Since 1963 he has taught at Arizona State University, the University of Wisconsin, and UCR. With this year's Festival productions pro-ductions he has now selected and directed Elizabethan music for twelve Shakespearean plays in fifteen different productions. Festival musicians Include Thomas Dudgeon, who received his BA In music education and his MA in music performance from California State University Univer-sity at San Diego. While there he received the Outstanding Music Major award and the associated students award for music. He has performed with the Aspen Festival orchestra and the Aspen Jazz-Rock Ensemble. En-semble. He is currently prlnci-pal prlnci-pal trumpet with the LaJolla Civic Orchestra and Is a freelance free-lance trumpet player In the Southern California area. He is PAUL HART I DR FREDERICK X. GABLE DR. THOMAS R. DUDGEON MARGARET JOHNSTON I V ; I also a founding member of the Ars Antiqua Consort and a music educator at San Dleguito High School. In the Festival he will be performing on cometto, recorder, krummhorn, natural trumpet, and voice. Virginia Dudgeon Is a senior at California State University, San Diego, where she Is principal princi-pal trombone with the Symphonic Sym-phonic Band and also has per-formed per-formed In the Wind Ensemble, Collegium Muslcum, brass and Jazz ensembles. She has twice toured Europe with the All American Youth Honor Band and Is principal trombone with the LaJolle Civic Orchestra and a founding member of Ars Antiqua Anti-qua Consort. Mrs. Dudgeon will be performing on sackbut, krummhorn, recorder, and raus-chpfeife. raus-chpfeife. Paul Hart attended Brigham Young University where he played recorder, viols and lute with the Ancient Instruments Ensemble. He has also played cello in the University of Utah Symphony. Paul is now a maker of early and modern string instruments. in-struments. In the Festival he will be playing his own lute an viol as well as krummhorns GINGER DUDGEON I (4 ) 1 j CHERYL HART and recorders. Cheryl Hart, a senior at BYU, has played and sung with the BYU Ancient Instruments Ensemble En-semble for several years. In 1971 she was part of the Utah Festival Consort. This year she will be singing and playing recorders, krummhorns, shawm, cittern, and percussion. Margaret Johnston is returning return-ing to the Festival for her second sec-ond season. She has just completed com-pleted her BA at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. and will graduate school at Yale University this fall. At Welles-ley Welles-ley she was awarded the Billing Bill-ing Prize as the outstanding musician in her clasg. She has performed early music throughout through-out the Boston area with Col-legiums Col-legiums of Wellesley and New England Conservatory and the Wellesley Chamber Singers. She will be performing in the Festi-val Festi-val on viols, recorder, krummhorn, krum-mhorn, rauschpfeife, percussion, percus-sion, and voice. The Consort of musicians will present a free concert of Medieval, Medi-eval, Renaissance, Baroque, and 20th century music In the Re-cutal Re-cutal Hall of the SUSC Music Building Sunday evening, Aug. ust 5. |