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Lunch Hour Series Kicks Off at UC

Opening Program Features Renaissance Music

Written By Ami Olson, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande @utica.edu

Utica, NY (01/24/2007) - Utica College offers listeners a rare musical experience as it begins its Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series on Jan. 31. The first installation of the series will be an instrumental performance of 16th and 17th century Renaissance pieces, performed on the instrument for which they were written: the “viol de gamba.”

The name viol de gamba refers to a family of string instruments that are played with a bow and held with the legs while played. The viol, as it was commonly called during the Renaissance, has 5, 6 or 7 strings and was one of the most popular instruments during that period. The viol was preferred over the violin, which was considered an instrument for the lower classes. The viol is available in several different sizes and ranges, though only the treble, tenor, and bass sizes were used in consort, or ensemble, music. For this performance, seven different Renaissance pieces were chosen, most written specifically for the viol.

Performing the pieces are Lawrence Day, Utica College associate professor of physics, on treble viol, Vicky Plotsky on bass viol and Jean Seiler performing treble, tenor and bass viols. The event begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Utica College Library Concourse, and is free and open to the public.

About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 32 undergraduate majors, 24 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.

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