Today his observations are used as  important guidance to eighteenth-century performance. The week’s music project is Handel’s oratorio, The Triumph of Time and Truth.  

The second week of workshops (22-28 June) is for individual and group instruction: voice, viol, lute, recorder, cornetto sackbut and reeds. The program’s faculty, with notable exceptions (including Bruce Dickie, cornettist, from the Bologna-based brass ensemble, Concerto Palatino) are mostly local. For more information or to register for instruction go to www.sfems.org