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FIR-CONWAY LUTHERAN CHURCH
· 18101 Fir Island Road ·
(360) 445-5396
http://www.firconwaylutheran.org/

Fir Conway Lutheran Church 
 Suggested Donation:
$15, $20 or $25
(a free will offering - everyone welcome)
•  18 and under FREE  •

SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music in the Skagit Valley
thanks to your support.

Early Music Ammerica

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 Fir-Conway Lutheran Church



2023 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Skagit Valley
~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries in the Skagit Valley and around the Salish Sea ~
download Skagit Valley SSEMF 2023 season flyer

  Wednesday, MAY 3, 2023 in LA CONNOR 
Maike Albrecht Hans-Juergen Schnoor

LIEDER RECITAL: HAYDN, SCHUBERT & BRAHMS
Maike Albrecht ~ soprano
  Hans-Jurgen Schnoor~ piano

✣  MAY 3 at 7:00 PM: La Conner  ✣
Skagit Historical Keyboard Museum in La Conner.
RSVP: Please reserve tickets by writing to salishseafestival@aol.com
  •  On three historical pianos   • 
suggested donation $20 or $25

Joseph Haydn
(1732 – 1809
Three English Canzonettas:
The Mermaid‘s Song (Anne Hunter)
Fidelity (Anne Hunter)
She never told her love (Shakespeare)
&
Cantata „Arianna à Naxos“
   Haydn's three English Songs are chosen from two sets of English Canzonettas, published in London in 1794/95, which were vastly popular in the drawing rooms of Haydn‘s audience.
   „Arianna à Naxos“ was a great musical hit in London in 1791 and achieved wide popularity all over the continent. The London Morning Chronicle of February 23 noted: „The Musical World is at this moment enraptured with a Composition which Haydn has brought forth… Nothing is talked of – nothing sought after but Haydn‘s Cantata… It abounds with such a variety of dramatic modulations – and is so exquisitely captivating in its larmoyant passages, that it touched and dissolved the audience… Haydn‘s Cantata will accordingly be the musical desideratum of the winter.“
Franz Schubert
(1797 – 1828)
Auf dem See (Goethe)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Friedrich Graf Stolberg)
Die Mutter Erde (Stolberg)
Bertha‘s Lied in der Nacht (Franz Grillparzer)
Im Walde (Friedrich Schlegel)
Suleikas erster Gesang
Suleikas zweiter Gesang (Marianne von Willemer from Goethe „West-östlicher Divan“)
   Inspired by our natural wonder around the Salish Sea, Albrecht and Schnoor have assembled a set of „Scenic Songs“ by Schubert, focusing on songs about nature‘s phenomena: water, earth, night and wind in correspondence with our inner lives. This correlation between our surroundings and our emotions is one of the major themes in German Romantic poetry since Goethe.)

Johannes Brahms
(1833 – 1897)
Walzer Grazioso E-Dur (solo piano)
&
4 Songs (poems by Klaus Groth):
Komm bald
Es hing ein Reif
Mein wundes Herz
Dein blaues Auge

  MAY 9, 2023 in the SKAGIT VALLEY 
Bellini - nunc dimitus
Giovanni Bellini's Nunc dimittis, or the Song of Simeon,
which is also reflected in Johann Sebastian Bach cantata Ich habe genug

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM
BACH CANTATA: ICH HABE GENUG
  Maike Albrecht ~ soprano
  Hans-Jurgen Schnoor~ harpsichord
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute

Soprano Maike Albrecht and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lubeck, Germany join baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug and other works

The church cantata Ich habe genug ("I am content"), BWV 82 was composed in Leipzig in 1727 for the feast Purification of Mary and is one of the most often performed and recorded of Bach's sacred cantatas. In this cantata, based on the Song of Simeon, Bach projects a feeling of serene contentedness with life and an expression of the experience of body and soul coming to rest and in complete harmony beyond anything that words alone can convey.

Maike Albrecht Hans-Juergen Schnoor

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~ updated April 12, 2023 ~
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baroque flute
SSEMF presents outstanding early chamber music
on period instruments
thanks to your support.