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SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music on Lopez 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 .
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With special thanks
✣ to
Grace Episcopal Church
2024
Salish
Sea Early Music Festival on Lopez Island ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
on Lopez Island and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with Grace Episcopal Church ~
✣
✣Tuesday,
July 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM at Grace Church
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(originally
scheduled for Saturday July 6)
Johann
Sebastian
BACH
Faythe
Vollrath
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
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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✣
✣Saturday,
JANUARY 20 at 1:00 PM at Grace Church ✣
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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 1:00 pm on
Lopez ✣
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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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✣
✣Saturday,
February 24 at 1:00 pm on
Lopez ✣
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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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✣
✣Saturday,
March 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM on
Lopez Island ✣
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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 1:00 PM at Grace
Church ✣
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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)
Louis Couperin
Les
Fauvétes Plaintives & La
Linote-éfarouchée
(harpsichord
solo)
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✣
✣Saturday,
May 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM at
Grace Church ✣
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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.
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✣
✣Saturday
afternoon, May 25, 2024 at
1 PM on Lopez Island
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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 ~
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
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
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