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ANNOUNCEMENT

It may be of interest to have certain background information on the Highland Park Recorder Society's "Music in the Age of Benjamin Franklin" concert series, especially the April 2 concert. (see concert listings on this website).

The selections for the concert were made collaboratively by Highland Park Recorder Society Conductor John Eisenhauer, who has a Master of music in Choral conducting from Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University, and the Practitioners of Musick, Professor Eugene Roan, Emeritus Professor of Organ and Harpsichord of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and John Burkhalter, independent scholar. Both are involved in this concert as performers and consultants.

As you know, the Practitioners of Musick ensemble was founded by Messrs Roan & Burkhalter to survey the musical riches of 18th century Great Britain - Ireland, and both Colonial and early Federal periods in America.

Eugene Roan is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Westmister Choir College, and has also studied at the School for Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. His teachers were Alexander
McCurdy and Alec Wyton.

John Burkhalter studied the performance of early music at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham and the performance practice of Baroque music at Harvard University with noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, conductor and scholar Frans Bruggen.

The music from which the selections for this concert were drawn was researched by Gordon Myers, Professor Emeritus, the College of New Jersey, one of the true pioneers in the study of early American music. The fruits of his labors were
heard nation-wide, including performances at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Two Rockefeller Foundation grants in 1969 and 1970 permitted Dr. Myers to visit major libraries where he collected copies of early American
music. For performances based on these investigations, Dr. Myers was honored by the Commission on the Bicentennial Celebration of the United States Constitution in Washington, D.C.

Recently, in an act of extraordinary generosity, Gordon Myers presented his entire performance archive of Music in early America to The Practitioners of Musick. Most of the music that will be heard in this concert was drawn from this treasury.