español | français Cambridge Society for Early Music awards Bezuidenhout and Drake Two scions of the early music movement received just recognition at the Boston Early Music Festival this past June. Kristian Bezuidenhout, a South African keyboard player who began music studies at 10 and now plays all over the world, and Kenneth Drake, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, received the Erwin Bodky prize and the Arion Award, respectively, from the Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, president of the society presented both awards. The Bodky prize, named after the society’s founder, a Prussian keyboard child prodigy who came to the U.S. in 1938 to teach at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge and later at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, recognizes young musical individuals who promote programs of music before the nineteenth century. It is not awarded every year; Bezuidenhout is the first recipient since 2001.Winners of the Arion Award are established musicians who have focused on early music throughout their careers. The awards were presented at the First Lutheran Church in Boston. Kenneth Drake followed with a recital of Beethoven’s op. 110 and op. 111 sonatas on a beautiful 1817 Broadwood fortepiano much like Beethoven’s own. The instrument was simply covered in a warm, burled walnut veneer and accented with mahogany banding. Decorative ormulu lions acted as clips to hold down the lid. For more information on the recital, or to learn more about the Cambridge Society for Early Music go to www.csem.org. Kenneth Drake ABOUT US | CONTRIBUTE   web map - home page - cover Legal warning Copyright 2003, Goldberg. info@goldberg-magazine.com