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Early Bird reminder

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For some of you, this is a gentle reminder that if you are planning to come to NORVIS this summer, you can save yourself some money simply by applying in the next couple of weeks. Applications received before 1st April get a £20 discount.
For others of you, it is a request to pass on the word about NORVIS and the early application discount.
As you know, the dates for NORVIS XLVI are Saturday 30 July to Saturday 6 August 2016 and applications can be made by post or electronically. All the information is on our website norvis.org.uk and may still be lurking in your incoming mail.
Please accept my apologies if neither of these apply and thank you to all those people who have already sent in their applications. I have acknowledged them all, so please contact me if you have not heard back.
If you would like any printed copies of the brochure to distribute to your friends and playing colleagues, just let me know your address and how many you need.
Hoping (if applicable) to receive your application soon!
Best wishes.
Harriet

NORVIS News 4

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New Year – new website!
It is with great pleasure that we have launched our new NORVIS website in time for New Year 2016. The address remains norvis.org.uk but when you click on it you will see something different.
Try it!
Then contribute to it! The editor, Mark Lawrence, welcomes contributions, specially photographs and short comments. Up to date material is always the best, so look back over your pictures from last summer – maybe there is one for a caption competition? All additions to the site will be at the editor’s discretion, but it would be lovely for him to have lots to choose from. (Send to norvisweb@gmail.com please.)
Many thanks to Linda Hill, who has provided us with a super website for many years, and to Jil Segerman for her photographic contributions. Linda has been a great help during the transfer and we are grateful to her and also to Mark for all the work he has put into creating the new site.
Hopefully I’ll be emailing again soon to let you know that brochures are out and applications open.
Best wishes for health and happiness and lots of music-making in 2016.
Harriet Gilfillan
NORVIS Applications Secretary
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Welcome, Oliver Webber

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Welcome to our new baroque strings tutor, Oliver Webber, who will join us at NORVIS for the first time in 2016, following the sad death of Duncan Druce.

OW photo 2sOliver Webber is the director of the Monteverdi String Band, known for their innovative work on string consort repertoire, and a principal player and guest leader with the Gabrieli Consort and the London Handel Festival. He is an expert in historical gut strings, while other research interests include ornamentation, historical bows, and Italian poetry and its influence on the music of the 17th century.

Duncan Druce (1939-2015)

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Duncan Druce, long-standing and beloved baroque strings tutor at NORVIS, passed away on 12th October after a short illness. You may like to read more about Duncan in his obituary.

Obituary by Stephen Plaistow in The Guardian.

Duncan Druce, who has died aged 76, was an exceptional musician whose gifts as composer, string player, musicologist, teacher and writer fed into each other and ran deep. He was of a naturally quiet demeanour, but is likely to be remembered for a big project: his imaginative reconstruction and completion of the Requiem Mass left unfinished by Mozart when he died in 1791. (Read more in The Guardian.)