Here you may find video recordings of Bram’s work leading rehearsal and performance.
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- Carissimi – Jonah (collegiate ensemble and soloists; professional continuo players)
- Mozart – Overture, The Marriage of Figaro (upper-division collegiate and graduate performers)
- Bernstein – Chichester Psalms (upper-division collegiate performers; visiting professional organist)
- Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (an even mix of students [mostly undergraduate] and young professionals)
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The Musical Rhetoric Workshop: Carissimi – Jonah
The Musical Rhetoric Workshop, Bram’s practicum on emotive techniques in early music, convened at Ohio State to perform Carissimi’s Jonas, on the story of Jonah and the whale. The soloists and ensemble were volunteers — currently enrolled or recent graduates of OSU — almost none of whom had encountered Baroque performance practices before. Sean Ferguson, Michael Delfín, and Aidan Sullivan played continuo. Recorded on February 27th, 2023.
Performance: Carissimi’s oratorio Jonah.
Lecture: Bram gave this lecture and demonstration of Baroque performance practices preceding the performance.
Mozart – overture to The Marriage of Figaro
As part of his “rotation” in the Conducting department at Ohio State, Bram began studying under orchestral conductor Miriam Burns and working with the school’s flagship Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2022. He chose the overture to Figaro for the ensemble’s mid-semester concert.
Performance: The overture in concert, October 20th, 2022.
Rehearsal: Bram rehearses the overture’s drama and character with the OSU Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 11th, 2022.
Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
The OSU Chorale performed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms under Bram’s direction as his first doctoral recital, on March 10th, 2022. Bram coached the sixty-voice chorus along with instrumentalists from the university’s harp and percussion studios; guest artist Raymond Nagem played organ, and Dr. Lee Thompson, rehearsal piano.
Performance: The first movement of the Chichester Psalms.
Rehearsal: Movement ii, in which Bram addresses issues of expression and technique in music of two entirely opposite characters.
The Musical Rhetoric Workshop: Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
The inaugural repertoire of Bram’s Musical Rhetoric Workshop, in the autumn of 2019, was Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Most participants were collegiate and graduate students and young professionals. The rehearsal and performance shown here, from the inaugural Workshop, took place the week of November 10th, 2019, at the Watkinson School in Hartford, Connecticut.
For information on how to take part in the Musical Rhetoric Workshop, please visit our website!
Rehearsal: Work during the first evening of the inaugural Musical Rhetoric Workshop, discussing affect, rhetorical gesture, and the union of the two. Focuses on nos. 36 and 14 in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Performance: The concluding chorus from Act I and the beginning of Act II of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.