[147] Renaissance Ensemble Known As The City Musick Plays MTSU Oct. 21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 14, 2009
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, School of Music, 615-898-2493

RENAISSANCE ENSEMBLE KNOWN AS THE CITY MUSICK PLAYS MTSU OCT. 21
Free Concert Offers Music Fans Chance to Hear Instrumentation of Yore in Action

(MURFREESBORO)—The five-member Renaissance ensemble known as The City Musick will perform an open concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The City Musick performs Renaissance wind band music featuring cornetts, sackbuts, dulcian, shawms, flutes, recorders, crumhorns, bagpipes and organ. The player’s music explores the diverse repertoire performed by professional musicians known as 'Waits' who were employed in towns and cities throughout Europe—and especially London—from 1500 to 1700.
"This is a great opportunity for all of us to hear Renaissance instrumental music performed on instruments from the time the music was written," said George Riordan, director of the MTSU School of Music. "This will be quite a sonic experience."
Titled "The Topping Tooters of The Town, Music of the London Waits 1550-1650," the performance will feature early music specialist and the group’s organizer, William Lyons (dulcian, recorder, bagpipes), as well as Paul Bevan (sackbut, recorder), Gawain Glenton (cornett, recorder), Tom Lees (sackbut, recorder) and Richard Thomas (cornett, recorder, bagpipes).
Sponsored by the MTSU College of Liberal Arts, the Departments of History and English, as well as the university’s music school, the Oct. 21 concert is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
For more information, please call the MTSU School of Music at 615-898-2493.



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