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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>CANTO APERTO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Plainchant Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2012 Edition: Chant from the Rhine and
Mosan Lands Sint-Truiden (B) 21-23.IX.2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Call for Concert Proposals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>In 2012, the first CANTO APERTO
Plainchant Festival will be organized in the city of Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
This new, bi-annual festival aims at exploring the rich history of plainchant
and its performance practices from the 7th century until today. The 2012
edition focuses on the chant traditions and repertory of the Mosan Area and the
Rhineland in the 12th and 13th centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We invite ensembles of young
(semi)professionals to contact us with (general) concert program concepts or
(specific) proposals related to the theme of the 2012 edition. Ensembles
interested in collaboration with the festival but with no previous experience
related to the Rhine-Meuse repertory are also invited to express their interest
and to send their applications. Musicological advice and guidance towards
relevant sources can be provided by CANTO APERTO. Similarly, musicologists and
other scholars studying the Mosan and Rhineland of the 12th and 13th centuries
are invited to collaborate with the festival as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Program proposals may relate to one or
more of the five strands outlined below. Applications should include a
curriculum of the ensemble, at least one letter of recommendation, and one
recent recording. Proposals and applications (by preference in English, but
proposals in other languages are also accepted) should be sent to Bart De Vos (</span><a
href="mailto:bart.devos@musica.be%3cmailto:bart.devos@musica.be"><span
lang=EN-US>bart.devos@musica.be<mailto:bart.devos@musica.be</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>>) before May 31, 2010. Please contact Pieter Mannaerts (</span><a
href="mailto:pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be%3cmailto:pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be"><span
lang=EN-US>pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be<mailto:pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>>) with musicological questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Proposed strands:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>1. A Network of Cities (Aachen, Cologne,
Liège, Tongeren, Maastricht)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2. Rhine and Meuse: transport and
transmission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>3. Keepers of the Carolingian Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>4. A Promised Land for Orders and
Communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>5. A Land of Saints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>More details on these strands and a
longer concept text on CANTO APERTO can be found on the websites of Musica (</span><a
href="http://www.musica.be%3chttp:/www.musica.be"><span lang=EN-US>www.musica.be<http://www.musica.be</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>>), Resonant (</span><a
href="http://www.muzikaalerfgoed.be%3chttp:/www.muzikaalerfgoed.be"><span
lang=EN-US>www.muzikaalerfgoed.be<http://www.muzikaalerfgoed.be</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>>), and the Alamire Foundation (</span><a
href="http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire%3chttp:/www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire"><span
lang=EN-US>www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire<http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The festival themes of the next editions
will be Chant in the Romantic Era (2014), Chant in the Baroque Period (2016),
Carolingian Chant (2018), and Chant of the Renaissance (2020).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#0D0D0D'>----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC'>Dr. Pieter Mannaerts</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><br>
<span style='color:#0D0D0D'>Postdoctoral Fellow | Research Foundation--Flanders
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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color:#0D0D0D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif";
color:#0D0D0D'>Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Musicology | Alamire Foundation<br>
<br>
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color:#0D0D0D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif";
color:#0D0D0D'>T +32 476 56 98 38 | M</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif";color:#262626'> </span><span
style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif";color:#0000CC'><a
href="mailto:pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be"><span style='color:#0000CC'>pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be</span></a>
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color:#0000CC'>www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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