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SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music in
Bellingham
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.
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are fully tax deductible in accordance
with the law. Your donations are
welcomed at
https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate
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With special thanks
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to
First Presbyterian Church
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2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in
Bellingham
~ Period Instrument
chamber music from six centuries in Bellingham and
around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with First Presbyterian Church ~
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✣ Thursday,
July 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM in
Bellingham ✣
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(originally
scheduled for Friday July 5)
BACH
Faythe
Vollrath
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
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Harpsichordist
Faythe Vollrath from
Sacramento, CA will join
baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan
for this mostly-Bach
extravaganza in the eighth and
final 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival performance
demonstrating the unparalleled
mystery and emotional
intensity of Bach’s
compositional abilities,
featuring transcriptions of
his works originally for viola
da gamba and another for
violin, both with obbligato
(or fully written-out)
harpsichord in addition to
sonatas originally written for
flute by Bach both with
continuo (a bass line with
numbers denoting harmonies
from which the harpsichordist
improvises) and with obbligato
harpsichord. Faythe Vollrath
will play variations for solo
harpsichord by Johann Adam
Reinken (1643-1722) on the
popular German folk tune
“Schweiget mir von
Weibernehmen” (‘shush, no more
talk about womanizing”).
Reinken was greatly admired by
Bach, who made arrangements of
several of his works.
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Earlier
concerts this season
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✣ Friday,
JANUARY 19 at First Presbyterian in
Bellingham ✣
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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
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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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✣ Friday,
February 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm in
Bellingham ✣
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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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✣ Friday,
March 1 at 7:00
pm in Bellingham
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GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
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
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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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✣ Friday,
March 22, 2024
at 7:00 PM
in Bellingham ✣
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FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed flute ~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
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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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✣ Friday,
April 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM ✣
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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)
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Friday, May 3,
2024 at 7:00 PM in
Bellingham ✣
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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
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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.
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Friday,
May 24, 2024 at 7
PM in
Bellingham ✣
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BAROQUE
CONCERTI
Carrie
Krause
~
baroque
violin ~
Jonathan
Oddie
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Elizabeth
Phelps & Courtney
Kuroda
~
baroque
violin
~
Victoria
Gunn
~
baroque
viola
~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello
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JACQUES
AUBERT
Concerto
in D Major, Opus
26 No. 3
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Flute
Concerto "La
Notte", Opus
10 No. 2
CARL
PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Flute
Concerti in D
Minor, Wq 22a
JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
Triple
Concerto in A
Minor for
Harpsichord,
Violin and Flute,
BWV 1044
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25e, 2024 ~
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