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cover: Albrecht Diirer, The Men’s Bath, 1496/1497, woodcut, Albertina, Vienna

The Seventy-first Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,945th Concert

Capella de la Torre

Katharina Bauml, founder and director

May 6, 2013

Monday, 12, 2, and 4 pm

East Building Mezzanine

Admissionfree
Program

“Music from the Time ofAlbrecht Diirer”

Presented in honor of

Albrecht Diirer: Master Drawings, Watercolors,

and Printsfrom the Albertina

This concert is made possible by support from the

Embassy ofthe Federal Republic of Germany

The musicians will announce their selections from the stage.

The Musicians

CAPELLA DE LA TORRE

An ensemble comprised of experts in the field of historical performance

practice, Capella de la Torre brings to life the prized musical repertory ofthe 

Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The name “de la Torre” can be understood in multiple ways. The ensemble specializes in music for historical 

woodwind instruments—shawms, dulcians, sackbuts and cornets, known

collectively in the sixteenth century as “Capella alta”—and the most famous

sixteenth-century piece for such an ensemble, Danza alta, was written by

Spanish composer Francisco de la Torre. The name can also refer to the 

place where this type ofmusic was most often played. “De la torre” means

“down from the tower,” and Renaissance wind ensembles usually performed

from towers and balconies. Known in Spain as ministries, wind ensembles

were called pijfari in Italy and Stadtpfeifer in German-speaking countries. In

Renaissance England, they were referred to as waits, sometimes spelled

waytes, a term derived from the even more ancient practice of equipping the 

watchman (wait) with a horn.

Since its founding in 2005, the ensemble has recorded five cds:

Musicfor Emperor Charles v; Mater Matris Christi—Musicfrom the Annaberg

Choir Books; Waits, Pijfari, Menestrels; The Guard on the Battlements; and Feliz

Navidad—Mediterranean Christmas Music. Its recordings and live performances have been broadcast on all ofthe regional radio networks in Germany.

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KATHARINA BAUMI

Bom in Munich, Germany, Katharina Bauml studied modern oboe in the

conservatories of Hannover, Hamburg, and Mannheim. Among her accomplishments on the modern oboe, she has been a soloist in the Gustav Mahler

Orchestra and has taught oboe at the School of Music of Hamburg. Expanding her interests to include historical woodwind instruments, she studied

with Renate Hildebrand in Hamburg and Katharina Arfken at the Schola

Cantorum in Basel. As an early music specialist, she has performed with the

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, L/ Arpa Festante, Barockorchester 1/Arco,

Dresdner Instrumentalconcert, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ministries de

Marsias, Musica Fiata, and Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla.

In addition to establishing Capella de la Torre in 2005, Bauml and

accordionist Margit Kern founded the ensemble Mixtura, which specializes 

in contemporary music for shawms and other instmments. Bauml currently

teaches at the music conservatories ofAmsterdam and Geneva.

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Program Notes

Today’s concert inaugurates the second week of events in the Month of European Culture, which includes twenty-nine concerts in various Washington, DC,

venues that represent all twenty-seven countries in the European Union

as well as symposia, films, and other events throughout the month of May.

Representing the Federal Republic of Germany, Capella de la Torre presents

a program of Renaissance music as it might have been heard in the fifteenth 

and sixteenth centuries in the places where Albrecht Diirer lived and worked.

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Upcoming Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Vlach Quartet Prague

Music for violin, viola, cello,

and piano by Dvorak

In collaboration with the

Delegation ofthe European Union

to the United States

Made possible in part by support from the 

Embassy ofthe Czech Republic.

May 12, 2013

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Robert Berkman, pianolist

Music from ballets performed by

the Ballets Russes

In honor of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929

When Art Danced with Music

Sponsored in part by the 

Billy Rose Foundation

May 15, 2013

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

East Building Mezzanine

Alexandria Symphony Orchestra

Kim Allen Kluge, music director

Bowen McCauley Dance

Music by Rimsky-Korsakov

and Stravinsky

In honor of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929

When Art Danced with Music

Sponsored in part by the

Billy Rose Foundation

May 19, 2013

Sunday, 6:30 pm

East Building Mezzanine

Meri Siirala, soprano

Marja Kaisla, pianist

Music by Saariaho, Sibelius,

and other Finnish composers

In collaboration with the

Delegation ofthe European Union

to the United States

May 22, 2013

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

West Building, West Garden Court