More CCM feedback

Today I heard from Eiji Hashimoto, professor emeritus of harpsichord, who led the Ensemble for Eighteenth-Century Music at CCM (remember that??) for many years and was the founding conductor of the Lucca program.

"Yesterday you wrote that the Lucca Opera and Music Festival will no longer be a part of CCM's summer study program, and I was quite surprised and saddened. I was the music director of the festival during the first three years of its existence (1996-98) and have many wonderful memories of the beautiful city and of the kind people who were generous and warm to us and whose hearts we touched through music. Some of my former students who participated in the festival still write to me about their experiences."

And Joshua S. Nemith, piano instructor at Slater Music Academy, wrote an essay "from a student participant's point of view" about the summer program cuts, that can be accessed at his blog by clicking here.

Photos: Joel Hoffman leading an improvisation class at Accent06, a week-long comprehensive music program that is to be discontinued; and Clare Callahan leading a guitar workshop.

P.S. Eiji Hashimoto is still performing and writing. The fourth edition of his book, "A Performer's Guide to Baroque and Post-Baroque Music," published in Tokyo in late 2005, will be coming out soon here. He is at work on another book about baroque keyboard fingering.