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Arts-related Research & Aesthetic Education

   
   

I have been involved actively in the fields of aesthetic education and historical music. While many of my colleagues engage in arts-based research in the field of education, I have found myself more active in arts-related research and, with my background in aesthetic education (as the founder and director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in Education at Ohio State University), I am active in the presentation of research in arts settings.

 

        
 

I serve as a columnist and editor of the Historical Instrument Section of the ITEA (International Tuba Euphonium Association) Journal and as coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass, an advocacy-related music ensemble.

Presently, I am involved in the preparation of a bass horn entry for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instrument.

  

with members of Berlioz Historical Brass
at the premiere of Mendelssohn's Seasons,
2009 Historical Brass Festival, Connecticut College, with conductor Wim Becu
 

For more information about Berlioz Historical Brass, go to berliozhistoricalbrass.org
To see my Historical Instrument columns in the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal, go to berliozhistoricalbrass.org/itea

  

Publications:

Chapters and recordings:
Craig Kridel, “Gabriel in Black Paradise,” in New Directions in Historical Brass Research, edited by S. Carter, (New York: Pendragon Press, 1998), pp. 263-270.

with Douglas Yeo, "The World of the Serpent"), Le Monde du Serpent; released October 2003; recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston and The Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, Massachusetts, April 2002, March and May 2003.

 


with Peter Schickele at his 2005 40th anniversary holiday concert, New York City
photo credit: R. Termine, New York Times


Articles:
“Resurrecting the Bass Cornetto,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 37:4, Summer 2010, 86-88. 
“New wine for old bottles,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 37:1, Fall 2009, 48-50.
“What Does the Serpent Sound Like,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 36:2, Fall 2008, 115-117.
 “From Spectator to Player: A Tuba Player’s Encounter with the Serpent,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 35:3, Spring 2008, 70-72.
 “The Original Intent of the Serpent,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 34:3, Spring 2007, 74-77.
“America's First Serpents: Travels through the Moravian Communities of Pennsylvania,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 34:2, Winter 2007, 84-86.
Craig Kridel and Dick Fuller, “Serpent Exaltations: Pedagogical Advice form Past and Present,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 32:3, Spring 2005, 85-87.
“The Biennial Dispatches: Serpent Events and Occurrences,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 31:2, Winter 2004, 79-81
Program notes for the Berlioz Historical Brass concert, King’s Chapel, Boston; October 2003.
“Bass Horns and Russian Bassoons,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 30:4, Summer 2003, 73-75.
“Kenny Carr and the Tigers: An Introduction to Pentecostal Brass Shout Bands,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 30:1, Fall 2002, 64—65.
“Streams of Recent Serpent Occurrences,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 29:2 Winter 2002, 83-85.
Craig Kridel, “Streams of Recent Serpent Occurrences,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 29:2, Winter 2002, 83-85.
“Serpent Dispatches,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 26:2, Winter 1999, 67-68.
“Reflections,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 25:2, Winter 1998, 98.
“New and Reconsidered Recordings,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 24:2, Winter 1997, 38-39.
“The Serpent at Amherst,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 23:2, Winter 1996, 40-41.
“Serpent Dispatches,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 23:1, Fall 1995, 38.
“Dispatches,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 22:3, Spring 1995, 52-53.
“Parisian Travels,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 22:1, Fall 1994, 40-41.
“Serpent,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 21:1, Fall 1993, 24-25.
“Serpent,” International Tuba & Euphonium Association Journal 20:2, Winter 1992, 30-31.
                         

I must admit that one of my more enjoyable experiences, albeit somewhat unrelated to arts-related research, was my participation in the Celebration of Tom O’Horgan at La MaMa, New York, May 2009. I had become close to Tom through the years and, from our shared love for the serpent, I even helped to coordinate his last public music performance, occurring in New York City in 2005. At the Celebration event, I was asked to close the evening in what proved to be one of the oddest introductions I have ever received and certainly one of my most surreal moments. After my performance, I chatted with André De Shields and posed for the occasion.


with André "The Wiz" De Shields
 


Presentations
Presenter, “Presentation-performance on the basse de cornets” for the National Music Museum Board of Trustees. This bass cornetto is the first exact copy made in modern times based on Mersenne, in his treatise Harmonie Universelle (Paris: 1636). NMM's Southern satellite  Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection of Brass Instruments and Institute for Brass Studies,  June, 2010.http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/News/Newsletter/August2010/TrusteesInSC.html

Presenter with Douglas Yeo, “In medias res: Considering the sounds of the bass cornetto,” The 25th Early Brass Festival, Conneticut College, August, 2009.

Presenter, “The Serpent and the Moravian Bass Horn in the early 19th century Northern Province of the Moravian Church,” The 8th Annual Moravian Music Conference, Moravian College, Oct., 2008. 

Presenter, “Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination: Engagements and Encounters,” Keynote Session, Spoleto Teacher Institute, Charleston, May 2004.

Presenter, “Serpent and Bassoon: A Forgotten Friendship,” International Double Reed Society Conference, Greensboro, June, 2003.

Presenter, “An Introduction to Pentecostal Brass Shout Bands,” International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, Greensboro, June, 2002.

Presenter, “The Serpent,” International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, University of Kentucky, 1992.

Select Performances (adbridged)
World premiere performance of Mendelssohn’s Seasons by Clifford Bevan; with Berlioz Historical Brass, Jeffrey Snedeker, natural horn; David Loucky, trombone;  Craig Kridel, English bass horn; Douglas Yeo, ophicleide;  The Anglican Singers of New London, CT with Wim Becu, guest conductor; 2009 Early Brass Festival, July 19, 2009.

“Re-premiere” performance of Kommt, ach kommt ihr Gnadenkinder by Johann Christian Bechler (1784-1857) and Heiger Schauer deiner Nahe by Andreas Jakob Romberg (1767-1821);The 8th Annual Moravian Music Conference, Moravian College, Oct., 2008.

Peter Schickele's 40th anniversary concerts in New York City, “P.D.Q. Bach: A 40-year Retrogressive, An Overview of Classical Music's Underbelly,” staged at Symphony Space, December 27, 28, 29, 2005. A photograph appeared in the December 29, 2005 edition of The New York Times.

Messes Royales, Premier Ton, by Henri DuMont, premiered at St. Etheldreda's Church, London, realized in late 19th century chant sur le livre, neo-Gallican chant by Peter Wilton of The Gregorian Association, for choir and two serpents; performed by Berlioz Historical Brass members Phil Humphries and Craig Kridel (serpents) June 2003; June 2006.

Performer in Berlioz mass, Concilium Orchestra, The Dartington Music Festival, Dartington, Devon, England, August 2001.

Director, University of South Carolina Fanfare Française (performances: 1988: Early Music in Columbia Concert Series; 1989: Southwest Society for the Study of French History Conference, New Orleans; International Serpent Festival, Columbia; 1992: Gambrell Hall Memorial Service for Dr. Amy Millstone; 2006: S. C. State Museum.

Soloist, “Call to Service,” Pope John Paul II’s American Ecumenical Service, Columbia, SC, 1987.

Performances at the Amherst Early Music Festival and the Historic Brass Festival, periodic from 1980-

 
                       
 

with Peter Schickele, Douglas Yeo, and Steven Silverstein
at the NYC PDQ Bach 40th Anniversary Concert, 2005
                       
 

Service:
Coordinator, The Clifford Bevan Award, I.T.E.A. Association, 2007-
Board of Directors, The Utley Foundation, 2001-
Member of Columbia Museum of Art’s Education Committee; 1995-1998; 2005-2008.
Founder and coordinator, Columbia Museum of Art’s 12th Night program, 2001, 2007.
Director of the International Serpent Festival, University of South Carolina, October 1989 (with appearances on NPR’s Morning Edition).
Founder and Director of the Early Music in Columbia concert series, University of South Carolina 1987-1990.
Advisory Board, Historic Brass Society, 1986-2000.
Founder and Director of the Serpent Workshop and world premiere of The Amherst Suite, Amherst College, August 1986 (with appearances on ABC radio).
Founder and Director of the Early Music in Columbus concert series, Capital University, 1980-1984; the Early Music in Columbus continues to present concerts.
Founder and Director of the Ohio State University Renaissance Festival, 1975-1984; the Renaissance Festival continues to this day.

Grants:
2004, Author, shout band performances at ITEC 2004 Budapest, Szentendre Festival and Valley of Arts Festival, Hungary, Arts International, New York, NY, $22,600.00
1998, Author, The Shout Band Tradition, North Carolina Arts Council, $6,200.00
1996; Author, Historical Brass Symposium, National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretive Conferences, $17,000.00
1989‑1990; Author, Project Director, “The First International Serpent Festival”; South Carolina Arts Commission, $2,000.00
1987‑1989; Author, Project Co‑Director, “18th Century French Military Band”; U.S.C. Venture Fund, $6,100.00

 
 
I continue my research in late 18th and early 19th century harmoniemusik


In 2009, I was Weinstock Artist-in-Residence at Lehigh University where I participated in a wonderful British harmonie project with specialist Professor David Diggs.

 
 
 


My career has been defined by my friends and mentors. Ken Wollitz, former member of the New York Pro Musica Windband and author of The Recorder Book, has been an important figure in my career and has, since my graduation from college, helped me to define myself as a person and professional. Here we are in Boston in 2009 at the Boston Early Music Festival where Ken received the American Recorder Society's Distinguished Achievement Award.
 
Local efforts in aesthetic education
   

Twelfth Night Concerts and the Columbia Museum of Art


l-r: Susan Parker Shimp, Craig Kridel, Jerry Curry, Janice Cook, Ron Cook, Christopher Berg

In 2001, I organized a group of early musicians who came together to form the Hawley Consort and to stage a Twelfth Night music concert in Columbia.  This ensemble, now known as the Arlecchino Consort, returned in 2006 to perform Twelfth Night: An Italian Festival at the Columbia Museum of Art. While the concerts were quite well attended, I have been unable to develop this into an ongoing program and, unfortunately, for this reason the ensemble is postponing further 12th Night performances.


 
                     
   

Craig Kridel
Department of Educational Studies
Wardlaw Hall; University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
office: 803.777-7257; fax: 803.777-7741
craig@sc.edu

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