Judith Conrad, Harpsichordist, with the Delight Consort (Paul Ukleja, Cornett, Recorder, Irish Tinwhistle
Otto Guzman, Cello, Cornett and Recorder Frank Fitzpatrick, Recorder, Sackbutt)  will be Welcoming Old Christmas to the Loring Greenough House, with ample opportunity for audience participation in familiar music. There will also be Christmas music of Tomás Luis de Victoria, who died 400 years ago this year and was the most famous composer of the 16th century Golden Age in Spain, a first start at next years' 300th anniversary of the death of Juan Baptists Cabanilles, preeminent composer of Spain's Silver Age, some brass music from Renaissance Italy and Germany and a Sonata from Wales in Imitation of Bird Song, on Sunday, December 18 at 3:00 p.m., at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA.

Meet the artists at afternoon tea following the program.

Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

The Delight Consort, founded in 1992, was named for the flagship of an expedition founded by Sir
Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 to search for a northwest passage through North America to China (via the
St. Laurence River!). He brought along with him from England a fabulous assortment of “Landlubberly
musicians” with which to entertain the natives along the way,and beguile them into giving up their
riches. Unfortunately, the musicians also beguiled the captain into failing to reef the sails when a
violent storm blew up, and it was reported from the companion ships that “like the swan that singeth
before her death, they continued in sounding the trumpets with drums and fifes. Also winding the
cornetts and hautboys, and in the end their jollity left with the ringing of doleful knells” as the Delight
rammed onto the rocks, August 29th, 1583.

Frank Fitzpatrick, here playing recorders and sackbutt, has a BS in Music from Rhode Island College
and teaches music in a school for autistic children. He lives in Cranston.

Otto Guzman, a native of Guatemala now living in Pawtucket, is the principle cellist in the Fall River
Symphony. He is playing cello, cornetto and recorder today but also plays viol, sackbutt and lute. He
has built many of his own instruments, including the cornett he is playing today.

Paul Ukleja, a retired physics professor at the University of Massachusetts -- Dartmouth, has been in
the Delight Consort since its inception in 1992. He is playing recorders, IrishWhistle and cornetto
today. He lives in New Bedford. He also plays trumpet, flugelhorn and penny whistle and plays with,
among other groups, the New Era Jazz Band (Bristol, RI), the Strathspey and Reel Society of New
Hampshire, and the Leeds Waites (Yorkshire, UK).

Judith Conrad studied piano with International Concert Pianist Theodore Lettvin in Boston, and
with Freeman Koberstein at Oberlin Conservatory, and holds a degree from Harvard University. She
has recently played at the Cabezon500 festival in Almeria, Spain. She is Organist/Choir Director at
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Kingston RI. A specialist in early music and performer on
clavichord and harpsichord, she is the Founder/Director of the Delight Consort and of the Fall River
Fipple Fluters, an amateur recorder-playing group. She is also the originator of the conceit
“Clavichordists for World Peace”. For further information call (508)674-6128, write to her at 106
Warburton St. Fall River MA 02720 or e-mail judithconrad@mindspring.com.

The Loring-Greenough House is wheelchair accessible. For more information on the Loring-Greenough House, see www.loring-greenough.org.