ORCAS
ISLAND
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ORCAS ADVENTIST
FELLOWSHIP
CHURCH
107 Enchanted Forest Road
Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
please note:
Concerts at 5:00 PM
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(a
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SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music on
Orcas 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
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to
the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
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2024
Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Orcas Island
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Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
on Orcas Island and around the Salish Sea ~
download
REVISED Orcas Island SSEMF 2024 season flyer
~ Presented in
collaboration with the Orcas Adventist Fellowship
Church ~
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✣ Wednesday,
July 3, 2024 at 5:00 PM in Eastsound ✣
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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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✣ Wednesday,
JANUARY 24 at 5:00 PM in Eastsound ✣
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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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✣ Wednesday,
February 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm on
Orcas ✣
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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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✣ Wednesday,
February 28 at 5:00 pm on
Orcas ✣
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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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✣ Wednesday,
March 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM in
Eastsound ✣
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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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✣ Wednesday,
April 10, 2024 in
Eastsound ✣
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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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Wednesday,
May 8, 2024 at 5:00
PM in
Eastsound ✣
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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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May 22,
2024 at 5 PM in
Eastsound ✣
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BAROQUE
CONCERTI
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Elizabeth
Phelps
~
baroque
violin
~
Victoria
Gunn
~
baroque
viola
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JACQUES
AUBERT
Concerto
in D Major, Opus
26 No. 3
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Flute
Concerto "La
Notte", Opus
10 No. 2
GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN
Quatuor
in D Major
(1752)
JOHANN
MELCHIOR MOLTER
Concertino
in G Major
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2024 ~
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