Announcements
Bavington book now available
Available from the BCS for $35.00, postage included.
Clavichord Tuning
and Maintenance
By Peter Bavington
Published by Keyword Press 2007,
ISBN 978-0-9555590-0-6
From the review by Peter Sykes in issue #23 of Tangents: "Clavichord
Tuning and Maintenance is a long-awaited must-have book for every person
owning or building a clavichord. It brings together for the first time
a wealth of practical tuning information (with just enough of a theoretical
basis to ground the information without complex mathematical explanations),
and is richly supplied throughout with drawings, diagrams, and tables
explaining everything very clearly. Written in a friendly, conversational
tone, it will go far in encouraging clavichord owners to take care of
their instruments rather than to shy away from the possibly onerous
duties of tuning and maintenance."
Geoffrion
CD now available
The BCS is now offering a new CD by Renée Geoffrion for U.S. $12,
postage included.
This clavichord CD was recorded in 2006 and contains the following works:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Sonata No. VI in A minor
C.P.E. Bach, Sonata in C minor (Wq 65/31) and Sonata in G major (Wq 62/19)
J. Haydn, Sonata in C major (Hob XVI:21)
W.A. Mozart, Modulierendes Praeludium (KV 624) and Fantasy in D minor
(KV 397)
Orders should be sent to the BCS at PO Box 540515, Waltham, MA 02454.
Payment by check or money order.
The Worcester Art Museum has taken out of storage and hung the picture featured in the fall 2003 BCS Newsletter: Young Woman Playing a Clavichord by Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
It is in a second floor gallery behind a door saying "Italian Art Seventeenth Through Eighteenth Century" (The painting is in fact a sixteenth century painting.) The painting is well worth viewing, as one can see details not apparent in any reproduction. The description next to the painting notes: "The clavichord is perfect in every detail, as can be judged from surviving ones like it...The painting is frequently consulted by historians and musicologists as an accurate document of the past."
Information about the Worcester Art Museum, including hours and travel directions, can be found at www.worcesterart.org. At the home page, click on "information."
For further information, contact the BCS at 781-891-0814 or P.O. Box 540515, Waltham, MA 02454
