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IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Early
Music Studio presents</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><font size="5"><b>Before
Gadgets: Music of 17</b></font><sup><font size="5"><b>th</b></font></sup><font size="5"><b>
Century France</b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><b>When:</b>
Sunday April 19, 7:30 p.m.</font></font></p>
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Mary Irwin Theatre at the Rotary Centre for the Arts</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><b>Tickets:</b>
<a href="tel:250-717-5304" value="+12507175304" target="_blank">250-717-5304</a> <a href="http://www.selectyourtickets.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><u>www.selectyourtickets.com</u></font></a></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><i>17th
Century French court music for lute, theorbo, guitar and harpsichord
Couperin, Le Roux, d’Angelbert, de Visée and Dufaut, played by</i>
<i>Clive Titmuss and Susan Adams</i></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">KELOWNA,
BC, April 1, 2015 – Most people think that cult figures in music
are a recent phenomenon, but near the end of the 1600’s in France,
a group of musicians rose to become the best-paid performers of their
time. The aristocrats of France had long before given up playing
music themselves, but had long evenings to fill, creating a market
for a class of great composers and players of solo music for the
harpsichord, the lute and a new toy – the guitar.</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">In
upcoming concert by at the Mary Irwin Theatre, in the Rotary Centre
for the Arts, <b>Early Music Studio</b> gives this period new life.
Professional musicians Clive Titmuss and Susan Adams specialize in
this virtuoso music, created for wealthy patrons and their
discriminating ears. The music languished in obscurity for centuries
until it was recently re-discovered. According to Titmuss, “Very
few people were privileged to hear these extraordinary works when
they were written, but anyone may enjoy them now.”</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">The
harpsichord was the most important keyboard instrument –
sophisticated technology, full of resources, elegant and commanding.
It inspired an entire generation of composers to write works of art
intended to highlight its power. Just then, the French lute style
reached its peak, just as the guitar began to gain favour. The trends
crossed over: Guitar tricks showed up in lute music – and the
elevated mood of the lute was heard in the best guitar music. Flashy
music for the harpsichord copied both instruments and contributed new
tricks of its own.</font></font></p>
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<font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">Audiences
will be able to hear just how this brilliant cross-pollination
worked, when lute, theorbo, early guitar and harpsichord share the
stage on April 19, at 7:30 p.m.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">Early
Music Studio is a not-for-profit society, which has called Kelowna
home for 13 years, advancing the knowledge of 17<sup>th</sup> and
18<sup>th</sup> Century music in the community. The musicians play
live, make recordings, act as a cultural bank and promote awareness
of live music on period instruments, having won national and
international attention as performers, teachers and scholars.</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">Tickets
are available from the Rotary Centre Box Office or online at
<a href="http://www.selectyourtickets.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><u>www.selectyourtickets.com</u></font></a>,
by phone at <a href="tel:250-717-5304" value="+12507175304" target="_blank">250-717-5304</a>. For m</font></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ore aditional information about visit </span><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium"><u><a href="http://earlymusicstudio.com/" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium" target="_blank">Early
Music Studio</a></u></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium"> at www.</span><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="3"><a href="http://earlymusicstudio.com" target="_blank">earlymusicstudio.com</a> or call</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium"> <a href="tel:250-769-2884" value="+12507692884" target="_blank">250-769-2884</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="font-size:large;line-height:100%">About
Early Music Studios</b></font></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">The
Society of Friends of the Early Music Studio is a registered
non-profit organization dedicated to the performance of and education
about music written before 1800. Principals Susan Adams and Clive
Titmuss, of Early Music Studios, produce concerts and recordings on a
variety of instruments that display the beauty of this period music
for audiences.</font></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:100%"><b>Susan
Adams </b></font><font size="3" style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:100%">was
born in Ottawa into a family that encouraged music study. She began
playing at the age of five, and started taking lessons when she was
six years old. Adams studied the piano privately in Ottawa with
Jaromey Anderson and then under Boris Roubakine at the University of
Calgary. Later she studied early keyboard instruments at the Schola
Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, majoring in harpsichord with
Jean-Claude Zehnder. Adams studied early piano with Klaus Linder, and
her travels to Holland offered her the opporunity to receive coaching
from Gustav Leonhardt. Returning to Canada, Adams has continued to
perform the works of Bach, Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti on
harpsichord, and the music of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and J.C. Bach
on the early piano.</font><br></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:100%"><b>Clive
Titmus</b></font><font size="3" style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:100%"><b>s</b>
was born in London, England arriving in Canada in 1955. He studied
music history and guitar at the University of Calgary. Later Titmus
studied the lute in California and England, and finally at the Schola
Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland with Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson
Smith. Titmuss began his studyof lutherie in 1980 and since then has
concentrated on building instruments from the 16th-19th centuries,
performing hundreds of recitals using instruments he has rafted.
Musicians from around the world play on instruments Titmus has made.
As a scolar, he has produced editions of early lute and guitar music,
made freely available on the web.</font><br></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><i>For
high-res images, to access previous recordings, or to arrange an
interview please contact:</i></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><b>Media
contact:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">Joshua
Desnoyers</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">Phone:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"> </span><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><a href="tel:250-863-5319" value="+12508635319" target="_blank">250-863-5319</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:joshdesnoyers@gmail.com" target="_blank">joshdesnoyers@gmail.com</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><b>Performer
contact:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font size="3" face="georgia, serif">Clive
Titmus and Susan Adams</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">Phone: <a href="tel:250-769-2884" value="+12507692884" target="_blank">250-769-2884</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium">Email:</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:medium"> </span><font size="3" face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:clivesu@uniserve.com" target="_blank">clivesu@uniserve.com</a></font></p>
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