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Complete Lute Songs of John Dowland

The Schoole of Night

The sixth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode, we will discuss all of John Dowland’s songbooks, their interrelationships and contexts.

JOHN DOWLAND
Complete Lute Songs

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597

The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600

The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Airs, 1603

A Musicall Banquet, 1610

A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612

The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano
Frank Pschichholz-lute

Recording: Julita Emanuiłow, Renate Wolter-Seevers, Michael Havenstein

Radio Bremen
Polskie Radio Dwójka

JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen

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A Farewell from the black kitchen

The Schoole of Night

The fifth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we will discuss the context and the history behind the song Farewell Too Faire from John Dowland’s Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres (1603). A Farewell to the dying Queen…


Farewell Too Faire

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Now O Now I Needs Must Part from the black kitchen

The Schoole of Night

The third episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you can hear the story behind Now O Now I Needs Must Part from John Dowland’s First Booke of Song or Ayres (1597) and its connections to the failed marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with the Duke d’Anjou in 1579.

Now O Now I Needs Must Part

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JOHN DOWLAND: Stories form the Black Kitchen. Episode II.

The Schoole of Night

The second episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you can hear the story behind Come Yee Heavie States of Night from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) and its connections to the Second Earl of Essex and to the story of Hamlet.

Come Yee Heavie States of Night

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Rehearsals of John Dowland’s Pilgrimes Solace

The Schoole of Night

The Schoole of Night has just finished rehearsing John Dowland’s Pilgrimes Solace.

A Pilgrimes Solace (1612) is Dowland’s fourth book of songs. It is dedicated to Theophilus, Lord Walden and it is a book of true renaissance magic.

The Schoole’s partner in this project ist the Kommen und Gehen festival

https://www.kommenundgehen.org/

Renaissance Dark Wave Night in December

The Schoole of Night

On December 21 The Schoole will perform at Gleis 1 – KulTourPunkt at the train station (Bahnhof) in Görlitz. 19.00

Photo : Sascha Röhricht

In the programme you will find the lute songs of John Dowland followed by our dark wave programme – songs written by Frank Pschichholz to the texts of John Donne, John Dowland and William Shakespeare. After that Djane Melanie will play for those who want to stay more and dance.

Lucy © The Schoole of Night 2024

ideenfluß e.V.
Bahnhofstraße 76
02826 Görlitz

Film production in the Nikolaikirche in Görlitz

The Schoole of Night

On August 4, 2024 The Schoole of Night (Maria Skiba & Frank Pschichholz) took part in the film reconstruction of the funeral of the co-founder of the Jakob-Böhne-Bund (1929-1924) Fritz Neumann-Hegenberg.

The funeral of the artist Fritz Neumann-Hegenberg, who had died of tuberculosis on August 2, 1924, could be relived on the basis of historical documents exactly one hundred years later, on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Neumann-Hegenberg’s death had been a turning point and at the same time the end of the Jakob-Böhme-Bund.


The Schoole of Night produced the audio tracks for the scene.

Photos Eleni Ioannidou

The film was produced by Jacob Böhme Bund and the Organisation zum Umwandlung des Kinos e.V. with the use of the analogue film techniques from the 1920s. The film artists were Klaus Weingarten and Jan Korthäuer.

https://www.verlagmagischeblaetter.eu/