Andrew Arceci: Early Music & Modern Folk

From Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman Leah Roseman

Andrew Arceci is an Early Music Specialist who performs on the viol family and is also a founding member of Floyds Row ensemble. You’ll be hearing music excerpted from their new album The Carlisle Sessions and also from Andrew’s earlier album with soprano Elizabeth Hungerford Love and Lust of wonderful music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Andrew also speaks about the tragic loss of his father, a prominent paediatric oncologist and how Andrew established the remarkable Winchendon Music Festival in Massachusetts, which features series of free concerts of jazz, early music, classical, and world music with established artists.

It was fascinating to learn about Andrew’s path from jazz and classical bass to art history and early music scholarship which he studied at the Peabody Conservatory, The Julliard School and the University of Oxford. Andrew got into some fascinating specifics about the intricacies of reading different forms of notation while playing in different temperaments on many different instruments. On a personal note, he shared the joys of his nomadic life with his wife the violinist Asako Takeuchi, and some of the experiences they have shared living in Italy and Japan with their children.

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(00:00) Intro

(02:34) Italian heritage

(03:23) Floyds Row “The Carlisle Sessions” with clips from tracks 1, 5, 2

(12:20) Andrew’s art history background, discovering early music and viol family

(18:37) Floyds Row “The Carlisle Sessions” with clips from track 3, and 4, balancing family life, George Lernis percussion

(23:25) background in jazz, improv elements in early music, lute tablature, continuo

(27:25) Winchendon Music Festival, loss of his father

(36:20) Love and Lust with Elizabeth Hungerford with clips of Tobacco, Death, Life

(44:38) suggested episodes and ways to support this podcast

(45:35) Hume, Mark Cudek, Love and Lust project with clip of Amarilli track 5

(48:21) viola da gamba and viol family with clip of She Loves it Well and Chi Passa Per ‘sta Strada

(01:00:28) languages, Japan, Italy