Music Ensembles
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Lachrimae
Lachrimae is a select group of singers and players who perform, in period costume, the music and dance of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Students, faculty and staff are invited to sing or play any number of early instruments including recorder, cornamuse, sackbut, cornetto, harpsichord, Renaissance flute, rebec and harp. We perform regularly on campus and throughout the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. Lachrimae has been delighting area audiences with its unique blend of early music, dance and humor since 1979.
Defenestration
Defenestration is the newest ensemble at Franklin Pierce. Our name explains the simultaneous feelings of freedom and risk inherent in what we do. Defenestration explores new music, music by faculty, students, local composers and the musical avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. Students may participate instrumentally or vocally and are encouraged to try new things. Our most recent performance saw the world premieres of the following works*:
Recent Programs by Defenestration
2008:
Ensembles of Note by Larry Polansky
Song of Loving-Kindness by Joel Feigin
Wood, Skin and Rock by Moses Mark Howden Music Walk by John Cage Distant Hills by Thomas P. Miller Fanfare for Toys by Moses Mark Howden On Hearing the First Snowfall by Paul Scharfenberger
2007:
Anomalous 1-6 by Christian Asplund
Spectral Glow by Terry Winter Owens www.terrywinterowens.com
Sam's Dance by Adrienne Albert www.adriennealbert.com
Imitation II by Shigeru Kan-No www.musikerportrait.com/Kan-no
Trio for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Piano
The Five Elements II* by Paul Scharfenberger
2006:
Portraits of Personality* by John Desilets
Sustained Sounds, with percussion by Michael Parsons
Thomas Has a Girlfriend from The Moppet Songs by Jason Bahr
Sketches for Two by Frank Wallace
Dance of the Rose Remembered* by Bill Yonge
The Owl and the Blackbird* by Paul Scharfenberger
2005:
Ariadne's Crown by Terry Winter Owens ( www.terrywinterowens.com )
Reflections on Poems of Claude McKay* by Robert D. Polansky ( www.kalvos.org/polanrd.html )
Four Songs on Poems by Walter S. Landor by Martin Blessinger
( www.societyofcomposers.org/user/martinblessinger.html )
Out of Windows* by Quinn Collins
Dreams* by Paul Scharfenberger
2004:
Pearly Everlasting
for two voices and piano
by Frank Wallace www.gyremusic.com
words by Nancy Knowles
Entropy
for instruments
by FP
student Michael Bagtaz
Rehearsing
a theater piece for musicians
by FP
student Pete Williams
The Five Elements
for instruments
by Paul Scharfenberger
*World Premiere
Send questions and comments to:
Paul Scharfenberger
David Brandes
