2013
SALISH SEA
EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Your
generous additional donations to SSEMF/Concert Spirituel enable our 105
performances in 3 years around the Salish Sea - many thanks!
~ at performances the suggested donation (a free-will offering towards
expenses) is $15 or $20 ~
~youth 18 and under always free • university students $5 ~
Donations are devoted exclusively to SSEMF performances. Concert
Spirituel is a non-profit corporation in Washington State since 1996.
The third
annual Salish Sea Early Music Festival in 2013 presents six programs
of chamber music from 1550 through 1850 on Lopez,
Orcas, San
Juan Islands and in Tacoma, on Bellingham,Vashon and Bainbridge Islands and in Seattle with some of the finest performers of early music on period
instruments from the Northwest, elsewhere in the United States and Germany.
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May 28 - June 4, 2013:
Giulianiad
~ The Music of Mauro Giuliani ~
John Schneiderman ~ early 19th-century guitar
Jeffrey Cohan ~ 8-keyed flute (London, 1820)
The Giulianiad was a journal for guitarists published in London a few years after Giuliani's death.
Seattle: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 7:30 PM (not in June as previously scheduled) download flier
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
Vashon Island: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 7:30 PM download flier
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Tacoma: Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· Trinity Lutheran Church · 12115 Park Avenue South in Parkland (Tacoma) · (253) 537-0201
Bellingham: Friday, May 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM download flier
· St. Paul's Episcopal Church · 2117 Walnut Street · (360) 733-2890
Lopez Island: Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
Orcas Island: Sunday afternoon, June 2, 2013 at 1:30 PM download flier
· Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
San Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Sunday evening, June 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· San Juan Island Grange · 152 - 1st street · 378-6632
KING
FM announcer Sean MacLean will feature music relating to and
information about our "GIULIANIAD" performance on Classical KING
FM’s Northwest Focus program, and we hope you'll listen in! Please check here soon for updated details.
Wednesday, May 1
Corelli: Trio Sonata in G, Op.3/6 at approximately 9:53pm
Thursday, May 2
Telemann: Quartet E minor, TWV 43:e4 at approximately 8:04pm
Monday, May 6
Handel: Trio Sonata in B minor, Op.2/1, HWV 386b at approximately 8pm
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May 1-7, 2013:
Simphonie
~ Baroque Trio Sonatas and Quartets ~
Ingrid Matthews ~ baroque violin (Seattle)
Susie Napper ~ viola da gamba (Montreal)
Hans-Juergen Schnoor ~ harpsichord (Lübeck)
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute (Fir Island)
Great trio sonatas by Marais, Corelli, Telemann, CPE Bach and Handel with fabulous guest musicians from Germany, Montreal and the NW.
MATTHEWS: Dexterous
brilliance … a winning mix of flamboyance and subtlety (The Australian)
• Extraordinary virtuosity …
dazzling breadth of
movement and emotion (ArtsHub Sydney) • One of the lights on early
music’s international circuit (San Francisco Chronicle)
NAPPER:
A sincerity that takes your breath away. Absolutely everything is here:
the discourse, the dialogue, the intelligent musical direction, the
transmission of spine-tingling emotion (Pizzicato, Luxembourg) • The
highest quality of performance on early instruments that can be found
in North America (The Whole Note, Toronto) • A rare degree of eloquence
… immensely assured and stylish playing (Early Music, England)
SCHNOOR:
A stunning account of Bach's monumental "Goldberg Variations" … an
expressive freedom illuminating the music's subjective beauty (Cecelia
Porter, The Washington Post)
COHAN:
An expressive spontaneity and communicative intensity that kept a
listener consistently absorbed … can play many superstar flutists one
might name under the table (The New York Times) • Virtuoso flutist ...
astonishing time and time again (Der Bund, Bern, Switzerland)
Vashon
Island: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:30 PM download flier
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Tacoma: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· Trinity Lutheran Church · 12115 Park Avenue South in Parkland (Tacoma) · (253) 537-0201
Bellingham: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM download flier
· St. Paul's Episcopal Church · 2117 Walnut Street · (360) 733-2890
Lopez Island: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
San
Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Sunday, May 5, 2013 at
7:00 PM download flier
· San Juan Island Grange · 152 - 1st street · 378-6632
Orcas
Island: Monday, May 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM download flier
· Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
Seattle: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM download flier
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
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~ earlier performances this season ~
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January 8 - 13, 2013
The Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque
flute
Christine Wilkinson ~ baroque violin
Steven Creswell ~ baroque viola
Joanna Blendulf ~ viola da gamba
THE LITTLE EVENING CONCERTS FOR LOUIS XIV
recreates the regular evening performances given for Louis XIV by the
illustrious members of his Musique de la Chambre. Jeffrey Cohan came
across an elaborate and completely unknown manuscript of 770 pages by accident in Paris some years ago which had been meticulously prepared for
the "little evening concerts given for His Majesty" (Louis XIV), and
which he finally saw again in Paris and brought back last spring.
This
exciting new source of information about chamber music at the court of
Louis XIV is to be explored, almost surely for the first time since the
death of Louis XIV in 1715, at the very low pitch of Louis' court (more
than two tones below
today's pitch) on the instruments with which the king was familiar.
Seattle: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
Vashon Island: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Tacoma: Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Trinity Lutheran Church · 12115 Park Avenue South in Parkland (Tacoma) · (253) 537-0201
Bellingham: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· St. Paul's Episcopal Church · 2117 Walnut Street · (360) 733-2890
Lopez Island: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
Orcas Island: Sunday afternoon, January 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM
· Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
San Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Sunday evening, January 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· St. David's Church · 760 Park Street · (360) 378-5360
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January 14 - 20, 2013
The Sun King's Musicians
Joanna Blendulf ~ viola da gamba & pardessus de viole
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque
flute
John Lenti ~ baroque
guitar
THE SUN KING'S MUSICIANS explores the great spectrum of tonal and
emotional color for flute, pardessus de
viole, guitar and viola da gamba and which radiated from the illustrious musical establishment of
Louis XIV, and baroque techniques of embellishing the beautiful French
vocal melodies, the airs de cour, of which Louis XIII and Louis XIV
were extremely fond.
Members of the "Musique de la Chambre", one of the primary divisions of
the king's musical establishment, included flutists Rene Pignon
Descoteaux and Philibert Rebille, who seem to have been the first to
make fashionable the new baroque form of the transverse flute in
France. They serenaded Louis XIV from at least 1667, and were joined as
members of the king's "Musique de la Chambre" by viola da gambist Marin
Marais in 1679 and in 1680 by guitarist Robert de Vise, the king's
guitar instructor from 1695 who regularly played at the king's bedside
and in private concerts for Mme de Maintenon. Blendulf, Lenti and Cohan
will perform the music of Marais, De Vise and Jacques Hotteterre, the
most famous flutist from Louis XIV's last decades in this concert
featuring a three-piece copy of a flute made by Hotteterre in about
1700 (later baroque flutes are in 4 pieces and higher in pitch) which
plays more than two half steps below modern pitch, the sumptuous pitch
of Louis' court which is rarely experienced today. Several
unpublished late 17th-century manuscripts from the Library of Congress
and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris will be featured. Joanna
Blendulf is one of the foremost specialists upon the rarely heard
pardessus de viole, which emerged as a new soprano member of the viola
da gamba family in the late 17th-century.
Bainbridge Island: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM · presented by Arts at St. Barnabas
· St. Barnabas Church · 1187 Wyatt Way · Bainbridge Island · (206) 842-5601
Vashon Island: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM (snowed out last year)
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Stanwood: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM · presented by the Stanwood Area Historical Society
· Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center · 27130 102nd Ave. NW · Stanwood · (360) 629-6110
Anacortes: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM · presented by the Anacortes Arts Foundation
· Croatian Cultural Center · 801 - 5th Street · Anacortes · (360) 293-4930
Seattle: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 7:30 PM (snowed out last year)
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
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February 13-21, 2013:
Corelli and Handel's Soprano
Linda Tsatsanis ~ soprano
Jan Weinhold ~ harpsichord (Germany)
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Due to illness it was necessary to cancel these performances.
Celebrate Corelli's 300th anniversary and vocal works by Handel including Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise and Meine Seele hört im Sehen
from the 9 German Arias, the cantata Lucrezia and Sweet Bird from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.
Vashon
Island: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Leavenworth: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM: Valentine Baroque!
· Faith Lutheran Church · 224 Benton Street · (509) 548-7010
Seattle: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
Mount Vernon: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Immaculate Conception Catholic Church · 110 South 5th Street, on Division in Mount Vernon · (360) 336-6622
Tacoma: Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Trinity Lutheran Church · 12115 Park Avenue South in Parkland (Tacoma) · (253) 537-0201
Bellingham: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· St. Paul's Episcopal Church · 2117 Walnut Street · (360) 733-2890
Lopez Island: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
Orcas Island: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
San Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· San Juan Island Grange · 152 - 1st street · 378-6632
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March 15-24, 2013:
Broken Consort Quartet
Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance transverse flute
Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin
Steven Creswell ~ baroque viola
Kyobi Hinami ~ harpsichord
The Broken Consort in Milan, London and Paris
During
the decades before and after 1600, Milan, London and Paris were vibrant
centers of chamber music activity that holds many mysteries. Between
1580 and 1628 in Milan and the surrounding region, a center of
compositional activity rivaled in Italy only by Venice, the
instrumental canzona blossomed in print and performance concurrently
with intense development among violin makers and players. In France the
airs de cour and extravagant court ballets from the 1570's represented
a new Italian-influenced French model of dramatic expression, which
followed an increased appreciation in France earlier in the century for
the interpretation of vocal music by transverse flutes and other
instruments. Broken consorts of all sorts, made up of instruments from
different families, were ubiquitous throughout Europe and celebrated in
particular by early 17th-century English composers. The virtuosic
embellishment of vocal melodies was highly cultivated by
instrumentalists, particularly in Italy, as a new concept of chordal
accompaniment evolved, but was resisted for decades by many composers
who chose to intensify the dynamic interaction of independent
instrumental voices in the earlier manner, ever more with violinistic
flair. All of these aspects of this great chamber music from the
decades around the turn of the 17th century are to be illustrated in
"The Broken Consort in Milan, London and Paris", with Venice thrown in
for good measure.
As in January's "The Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV", this
program explores a unique musical palette and language of expressive
nuance from another all but forgotten musical arena, performed on
instruments such as the renaissance transverse flute that are seldom to
be heard today. Among the composers to be represented are Giovanni
Paulo and Andrea Cima, Giovanni Bassano, Girolamo Frescobaldi, William
Byrd, William Lawes, Thomas Morely and Pierre Guédron.
A consort is considered "broken" when instruments from different
families (in this case wind, string and plucked) are brought together,
and a "broken" melody is an ornamented one.
Tacoma: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM
· Trinity Lutheran Church · 12115 Park Avenue South in Parkland (Tacoma) · (253) 537-0201
Seattle: Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Christ Episcopal Church · 4548 Brooklyn Ave. NE · (206) 633-1611
Bellingham: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· St. Paul's Episcopal Church · 2117 Walnut Street · (360) 733-2890
Vashon Island: Friday, March 22, 2013 at 7:30 PM
· Bethel Church · 148th Ave sw & 119th St. (14736 SW Bethel Lane) · (206) 567-4255
Lopez Island: Saturday afternoon, March 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM
· Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
Orcas
Island: Saturday afternoon, March 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM Shakespeare's Broken Consort!
· Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
San
Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 7:30 PM (pre-concert lecture at 7:00)
· San Juan Island Grange · 152 - 1st street · 378-6632
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PREVIOUS FESTIVALS: 2011 • 2012
| Seattle | Tacoma | Bellingham | San Juan Island | Orcas Island | Lopez Island | Vashon Island |
From 1725 until 1790, the Concert
Spirituel in Paris offered outstanding sacred, orchestral and chamber music
performances presented by the leading instrumentalists and composers of Europe,
often featuring the most innovative new music of the day. Since the early 1980s
Concert Spirituel performances in Seattle and then Chicago and back to Seattle again have featured
harpsichordists Elisabeth Wright, George Shangrow, Hans-Juergen Schnoor
(Germany), David Schrader and John Whitelaw (Belgium), violinists Stanley
Ritchie, Ingrid Matthews and Jorg Michael Schwarz, lutenists Stephen Stubbs and John Schneiderman,
gambists Susan Napper and Mary Springfels and cellist Elaine Scott
Banks. Unpublished works from the Library of Congress and other libraries and
unusual instruments and instrumental combinations that were familiar in earlier
times are given particular attention. We are excited to present the third Salish Sea Early Music Festival!
Joanna Blendulf · Jeffrey Cohan · Steven Creswell · Kyobi Hinami
Courtney Kuroda · John
Lenti · Ingrid Matthews
Susie Napper · John Schneiderman · Hans-Jürgen
Schnoor
Linda Tsatsanis · Jan Weinhold · Christine Wilkinson
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