AEM ONLINE Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, 2020 Join us for AEM ONLINE! Four online class sessions are offered using the Zoom meeting app, or your web browser. Register for any number of sessions, $25 per session. Instructors will be in touch ahead of time with music, Zoom meeting links will be sent out on Friday after registration has closed. All sessions run 90 minutes, with the first 15 minutes for introductions. If for any reason the session doesn’t work for you, we’ll refund your money. Tish Berlin will hold a Zoom tutorial on Friday, April 24, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern/1:00 p.m. Pacific time for any participants who would like help with Zoom. She will send out a meeting link Friday morning to all participants but only those who are new to Zoom or who need a refresher need to join the meeting. If you are an old hand by now you can ignore the invitation. Registration deadline for all classes is Friday by 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. SCHEDULE (Eastern Daylight Time) Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. PT) Viol Duets with Ros Morley 3:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. PT) Introduction to Baroque Opera with Dylan Sauerwald Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. PT) An English Banquet of Song with Emily Eagen 3:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. PT) Recorder Technique with Aldo Abreu CLASSES: Viol Duets: a tasting menu with Ros Morley Saturday, April 25, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) Tired of eating take-out alone? Sign up for this viol tasting menu of 16th and early 17th century duets for tenor and bass viols (treble will be able to play too). Sample musical delights by Gastoldi, Giamberti, Sweelinck, and Mico. Learn about phrasing, fingering and bowing in the context of these delightful duos. Download the music here! Pitch: A = 415. Open to: Viols, intermediate to advanced treble, tenor, bass viols. Introduction to Baroque Opera with Dylan Sauerwald Saturday, April 25, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (12:00 p.m. Pacific Time) The Baroque stage is a confusing place. Everyone is dressing up as everyone else, almost nothing is in English, and gods gavotte in and out like they're on Seinfeld. In a whirlwind tour, students will explore the wide and wonderful world of early opera, learning about the styles, ideas, forms, and forces that shaped this magical repertoire. The aim of this course is to give students deeper insight into, and appreciation of, the dazzling and baffling family of operatic genres that form the molten core of Baroque artistic expression. Materials for this class available here for download. We will examine the major styles within Baroque-period musical theater by studying representative excerpts from nine composers: Claudio Monteverdi, Pier Francesco Cavalli, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Purcell, Reinhard Keiser, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. Open to all! An English Banquet of Song with Emily Eagen Sunday, April 26 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) This class will begin with an invigorating vocal warm up and then dive right into repertoire! We will focus on simple songs (rounds, canons, duets) from the English Renaissance that you can learn either by ear or score and enjoy singing with those at home or with yourself - possibly using the magic of Garage Band! The English Renaissance offers a treasure trove of delightfully witty, achingly lovely, and magically crafted songs that will delight and intrigue you. Emily will share tips for making music with these songs, and share ideas about how to use this repertory to keep expanding both your vocal capacities and your musicianship. Music will be available for download here. Open to: All who like to sing Recorder Technique with Aldo Abreu Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (12:00 p.m. Pacific Time) In this class we’ll cover important aspects of breathing, sound production, articulation, and fingering, including correct use of the thumb and double hole technique. Exercises will be drawn from my published technique exercise books: Warm Ups and Technical Exercises, Finger Exercises, Articulation Etudes part I, Articulation Etudes part II, 4 Vibrato Exercises and 4 Sound Control and Silent Breathing Etudes. Open to: Recorders, upper intermediate to advanced. Pitch: A=440. Materials will be available for download here. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER CLICK HERE FOR ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS .