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Show Concert slated Sunday by Utah Festival Renaissance musicians ,-.?', ',"11 n''s jC t) P ' - r - k - - SPECIAL TREAT. Utah Shakespearean Festival Consort musicians ready Sunday concert. from the Spanish musicians, ancient instrument players have been able to learn about playing many of the old instruments." Almost a dozen varieties of wind instruments are being used by the Festival Consort players, and string instruments are represented by a violin and a viol da gamba. The six musicians are all experienced ancient music players, and although they had never worked together until they began rehearsals for this summer's season, their offerings are proving an attractive at-tractive part of the Pre-Show activities. Jeanette Jones and Joanne Andrus are Brigham Young University students who play in an ancient instrument ensemble during the winter; Pat Lakin accompnaied Duane Thomas from San Diego, where i she also plays in Renaissance music groups. Sheryl Prescott is musical director in a children's theatre in Billings, Montana, Phillip Gerring joined the group as violinist, and is also the group's youngest member. "Although play, music represents only a tiny fraction of Renaissance music," Mr. Thomas concludes, "we are happy to find this much emphasis em-phasis being placed on authentic Renaissance music and play "ancient-type" music. We are delighted to find that the Cedar City Festival is using the real thing." The group will play a concert Sunday evening August 3, which is open to the public, in the SUSC Recital Hall, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Authentic Renaissance music, played on accurate reproductions reproduc-tions of 16th and 17th Century instruments, is contributing to the historical accuracy of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Six Festival Consort musicians, under the direction of Duane Thomas, a director of Renaissance music from San Diego, play compositions which were being played in Europe during Shakespeare's time, and the nightly performances are played on a variety of instruments in-struments such as recorders, krummhorns, kortholts, a cor-namuse, cor-namuse, a rackett, and a viol da gamba. "Most of these instruments." explains Mr. Thomas, "developed in Europe during the late 15th Century, as en-semble music became extremely popular. The need for variety of sound in instruments eventually produced the different kinds, several of them developed in some form from the German krummhorns." Mr. Thomas explained that a revival of Medieval music began in the 1930' s when the few old instruments found in museums were copied by musical instrument in-strument makers, notably the German Moeck Company, and musicians were challenged to determine how to play the old instruments accurately. "Fortunately," Mr. Thomas continues, "the shawm, an outdoor instrument, has remained in continuous use in northeast Spain since the Middle Ages. From observing these instruments in use and learning |