The Calvert Volume
The Practitioners of Musick plan to perform and record many selections from a remarkable new source. A collection
of sheet music, published in London between 1790 and 1815, was acquired by and bound for one of the members
of the celebrated Calvert family of Maryland . Among the many felicities of the volume are keyboard arrangements of English and Scottish dance tunes.
Schaffner Manuscript
In the coming months, the Practitioners of Musick will begin a recording project highlighting the English and German
repertory found in the manuscript. The music will be performed on a series of historic keyboard instruments, most
notably a 1791 Kirkman harpsichord and a 1794 square fortepiano made by Longman and Broderip. In addition, the Practitioners will record music on a rare surviving instrument made by the Lancaster County Organ builder Conrad Doll in 1807.
The Old Barracks Fife and Drum Corps, Trenton, New Jersey
(photo courtesy of the Old Barracks Association)
We are happy to announce that the Old Barracks Fife and Drum Corps will release, in early 2009, a recording that includes
marches found in the Schaffner manuscript, arranged and edited by Steve Hudak, for the Corps, of which he is the distinguished director.
1704 Deerfield
The Practitioners provided the section of the 1704 Deerfield website devoted to the music of New France.
Fenton House
For a new CD and catalogue of the Benton Fletcher Collection, the Practitioners have supplied eighteenth century
printed music from their collection.
Music for Rockingham
Music for a new interpretive film.
