The Ancient & Celtic Concert, in 2007, was the revival of the ancient concert series established down at the Redlands church with ten annual productions. It had been 7 long years since the last one at RCC, and for good reason: the concert is so arduous to mount that it was necessary to plan up to the last year we were all together at Immanuel to make the attempt. The difficulty in presentation is easy to fathom: if the chorale is the meat and potatoes of an ancient concert, then the early consort of historic instruments is the dessert. Assembling an ensemble of early instrumentalists is a momentous challenge, even more so than raising up the chorale to accurately sing the motets, madrigals, and medieval plainsong. Michael Roy called upon his early music friends in South Florida, and members of the Miami Recorder Society, and the consort was staffed. It may have been the first time in Miami that one church building had three kinds of bagpipes sounding in one concert: the Great Highland pipes; the Galician pipes, and the uilleann pipes were all there. We even tried to play a tune together, but that proved troublesome considering that the Highland is in Bb, the Galician in C, and the uilleann in D. The concert was a tremendous success, and represented the swan song of the Immanuel Singers, which were disbanded at the end of 2007, with the coming of a change of administration in the church.
This two-fronted banner was erected three weeks before the concert. A poignant fact: somewhere under the overgrown grass of this area, the inset pipes for the banner poles lie unused and abandoned for all time. They were even hard to find when the concerts were going on. MR used a nearby manhole cover and a complex series of vector lines using sites lines across the street to locate the holes. Now, they are only known to God.
An inclusion of names is seen on this same photo in "Ancient & Celtic Concert" audio files.
This two-fronted banner was erected three weeks before the concert. A poignant fact: somewhere under the overgrown grass of this area, the inset pipes for the banner poles lie unused and abandoned for all time. They were even hard to find when the concerts were going on. MR used a nearby manhole cover and a complex series of vector lines using sites lines across the street to locate the holes. Now, they are only known to God.
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MR says: This slideshow has photos of the Ancient & Celtic Concert, one of the last two concerts given by the Immanuel Singers before the choir program was discontinued.It shows the St. Andrews Pipe and Drum Band, the early consort of historical instruments, which included recorders, viols, krummhorns, cornamusen, gemshorns, sackbut, serpent, all manner of bagpipes, lute, harpsichord, and organ. For the Handelian choruses, we also used violins and cello. In the audience-pipe band photo (13 / 20): I tried unsuccessfully to purloin that can of soda from the kid in the front row, but he wouldn't fork it over.