Lectures and Workshops
Return to the Oleskiewicz-Schulenberg Duo home page.
Listed below are descriptions of some recent lectures, workshops, and other public events that we have led for musicians, scholars, and the general public. We are happy to give similar presentations either individually or in conjunction with recitals or concerts.
Bach's Musical Offering: Instrumentation and Realization: a presentation on choice of instruments, tuning and temperament, and other aspects of realization and performance practice, together with performances of the complete work (or selections), to the Kanto section of the Musicological Society of Japan, Hiyoshi, Jan. 12, 2002, and the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society, Dayton, Ohio, May 14, 1999
Flutes, Fakes, and First Impressions: a talk with slides and performance examples on the authenticity of historical instruments and how this affects performance practices today, sponsored by the Iowa City Early Keyboard Society, Nov. 12, 2000.
The Bach Family Circle: a presentation about music, education, and life in the Bach family, with live examples of pieces by J. S. Bach and his sons, given for Houston Early Music, April 14, 2000.
Bach on Old Instruments and New: a discussion and performance of movements from J. S. Bach's Partita in A minor for unaccompanied flute, BWV 1013, and Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, BWV 1034, as part of a Bach Symposium: The World and Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, presented by Great Performers at Lincoln Center in conjunction with the American Bach Society, Saturday, February 5, 2000, at 2 p.m. in the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center, New York.
Bach Goes to Court: J. S. Bach and His Royal Patrons and Recycled and Revised: How Bach Kept His Concertos and Cantatas Up-To-Date: two pre-concert lectures with live and recorded musical examples, given for the American Bach Project (Milwaukee), March 21-2, 1997 (sponsored by the Historical Keyboard Society of Wisconsin)
Instrument Collections--The Twenty-First Century is Here:: a panel discussion co-sponsored by the Boston Early Music Festival and Early Music America (Boston, Mass., June 10, 1999)
PRIMARILY FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE FLUTE AND ITS MUSIC
Masterclasses for modern and baroque flutists
The Quantz Flute: Aspects of Performance Practice, Repertory, and Flute Design: a lecture-demonstration for the Galpin Society, Edinburgh, July 11, 1999
The Quantz Flute and Its Dresden Context: Ramifications for Eighteenth-Century Performance in Germany: a lecture-demonstration at the York Early Music Festival (York, England, July 2, 1999), sponsored by the National Early Music Association
Bach, Quantz, and the Transverse Flute: Interrelationships and Influences: a lecture-recital for the American Bach Society (New Haven, Conn., April 24, 1998)
The Flutes and Musical Style of Johann Joachim Quantz: a pre-concert lecture-demonstration for the Library of Congress's Flute Fest (Washington, D.C., February 27, 1998)
PRIMARILY FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR MUSIC
Masterclasses for harpsichordists and for pianists playing early keyboard music--including basso continuo accompaniment
Composition and Improvisation in the Bach Circle:: a lecture-recital for the Festival International de Clavecin Bach (Montréal, May 3, 1997)
Performance Problems in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music: a lecture-recital given for the American Guild of Organists (Dallas, 1994), the First Annual Symposium of the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies (Northampton, Mass., 1994), and the American Musicological Society (New York, 1995)
Fingering and Ornaments: a panel discussion as part of a Byrd Performance Symposium at the Boston Early Music Festival (June 19, 1993)
