SAN
JUAN ISLAND
BRICKWORKS
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Donation:
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(a free will offering - everyone
welcome)
•
18
and under FREE •
SSEMF
presents outstanding early chamber music on San
Juan Island thanks to your support.
The
Salish
Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be
an affiliate organization of Early Music
America, which develops, strengthens,
and celebrates early music and
historically informed performance in
North America.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is a
501(c)3 organization and all donations
are fully tax deductible in accordance
with the law. Your donations are
welcomed at
https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate
.
✣
With special thanks
✣ to
Brickworks
2024
Salish Sea Early Music Festival on San Juan Island ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries on
San Juan Island and around the Salish Sea ~
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✣Thursday,
May 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM at
Brickworks ✣
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RENAISSANCE
PSALMS,
IRISH
BAROQUE & FOLK
Oleg
TImofeyev
renaissance
lute, English guitar
&
7-string guitar (1820)
Jeffrey Cohan
renaissance
& baroque flutes
&
8-keyed flute (1820)
17th
Century
Nicolas
Vallet
Jacob
Van Eyck
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
18th
Century
James
Oswald
Francesco
Barsanti
Turlough
O'Carolan
19th
Century
Mauro
Giuliani
Louis
Drouet
Charles
Nicholson
This
program, in three parts, opens with
settings of Psalms and variations on
folk melodies by early 17th-century
flutist Jacob Van Eyck, lutenist
Nicolas Vallet and others performed
on renaissance
descant, tenor and bass transverse
flutes and lute. Then,
baroque flute and the rare
but once quite popular wire-strung
English Guitar of the 18th century
is to be heard performing the folk
tunes of Scotland and Ireland as
interpreted and varied by the early
18th-century composers Francesco
Barsanti, Turlough O'Carolan, James
Oswald and others. Finally, an
Eastern European 7-string guitar
made in 1820 in Russia alongside an
eight-keyed flute made in London in
the same year bring to life
variations on popular tunes by Mauro
Giuliani, Louis Drouet, Charles
Nicholson and other virtuoso
flutists and guitarists of
Beethoven’s day.
~
Earlier concerts this season
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✣
✣JANUARY 20 at
Brickworks in Friday Harbor ✣
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THREE
CENTURIES:
GUITAR,
THEORBO & FLUTE
Michael
Freimuth
~
renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th
Century
Diego
Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni
Bassano
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
17th
Century
Giovanni
Paulo Cima
Girolamo
Frescobaldi
Giovanni
Battista Fontana
Giovanni
Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
18th
Century
Arcangelo
Corelli
• André Chéron
Robert
de Visée
Join
us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and an unusual and
expansive journey through the music for
guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, including elaborate
jazzed-up versions of well known songs of
the time, published by the incredible wind
instrument virtuosi of the late 16th
century, along with canzonas, sonatas and
suites from Spain, Italy, England and
France. The instruments include the
renaissance guitar, which is considerably
smaller and more mellow-toned than its
modern descendant, theorbo (an extremely
long-necked lute), the one-piece
cylindrical renaissance flute along with
the bass renaissance flute, and the
one-keyed baroque flute.
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✣Saturday,
February 17, 2024 at 7:00
pm in Friday Harbor
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SIMPHONIE
NOUVELLE:
LOUIS
XIV & J.S. BACH
Stephen
Stubbs
~ baroque
guitar ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
guitarists
Diego
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) Robert
De Visée (c.1655-1733) viola
da gambists
Monsieur
de Sainte Colombe
(c.1640-c.1700) Marin
Marais
(1656-1728) Jacques
Morel (c.1680-c.1740) flutist
Michel
de la Barre (c.1675-1745) composers
Élisabeth
Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
(1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733) Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Louis
XIV gathered the finest musicians
of France at his court in
Versailles and this program
features many of the late 17th and
early 18th-century guitarists,
viola da gambists, flutists and
other composers associated with
his illustrious musical
establishment, alongside the
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 of
Johann Sebastian Bach.
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✣Sunday,
February 25 at 2:00
pm in Friday
Harbor✣
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GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Quadri
a violino, flauto
traversiere, viola da gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento
(1730):
Concerto
II in D Major
Sonata
II in G Minor
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites
(1738):
Premier
Quatuor in D Major 4e.
Quatuor in B Minor
Having been invited by
several of the most
prominent French
musicians to visit
Paris, Telemann composed
and published the first
set of his remarkable
"Paris Quartets" in
1730, and left Hamburg
for Paris seven years
later, where all 12 of
the quartets were
performed, almost surely
with Teleman himself on
the harpsichord. The
second set of quartets
was published in Paris
during this visit in
1738. Two years later
Telemann related the
following:
"The admirable
performances of these
quartets by Messrs
Blavet (transverse
flute), Guignon
(violin), the younger
Forcroy [i.e. Forqueray]
(viola da gamba) and
Edouard (cello) would be
worth describing were it
possible for words to be
found to do them
justice. In short, they
won the attention of the
ears of the court and
the town, and procured
for me in a very little
time an almost universal
renown and increased
esteem."
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✣Sunday, March
24, 2024 at 2:00 PM in
Friday Harbor ✣
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FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed
flute ~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
As the most
celebrated
composer in all of
Europe for much of
his career, Franz
Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809) was
Mozart’s mentor
and friend as well
as Beethoven’s
tutor. The program
will include three
trios for flute,
violin and cello
by Haydn,
selections from a
1795 arrangement
for these
instruments of
Mozart’s opera
“The Magic Flute”,
and a trio by
Franz Anton
Hoffmeister, a
friend of Haydn,
Mozart and
Beethoven who
published music by
all three.
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✣
✣Saturday,
April 6, 2024 at
7:00 PM at
Brickworks ✣
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SPRINGTIME
BAROQUE:
AIRS for SPRING
Arwen
Myers
~
soprano
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque
flute ~
Johann
Sebastin Bach
Seele,
deine Spätzereien
(from
the Easter Oratorio)
Louis-Nicolas
Clérambault
Orphée
(Cantata)
George
Frideric Handel
Singe,
Seele & Flammende
Rose
(from
9 German Arias)
Toussaint
Bordet
Recueil
D'Airs Avec
Accompagnement de
Flute
(selections)
Francois Couperin
Les
Fauvétes Plaintives
& La
Linote-éfarouchée
(harpsichord
solo)
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
~ updated April
26, 2024 ~ Suggested
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(a free will offering - everyone is
most welcome)
• 18 and under FREE •
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SSEMF presents
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chamber music
on period instruments thanks
to your support.