WHIDBEY
ISLAND
WHIDBEY ISLAND UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
CONGREGATION
20103 State Route 525
in Freeland on Whidbey Island
Suggested
Donation:
$20 to $30
(a free will offering - everyone
welcome)
•
18
and under FREE •
SSEMF
presents outstanding early chamber music on
Whidbey 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
the WI Unitarian Universalist Church
2024
Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Whidbey
Island ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
on Whidbey Island and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with the Unitarian Universalist
Congregation of Whidbey Island ~
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✣Sunday,
APRIL 7, 2024 at 7:30 in Freeland
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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)
~
Earlier concerts this season
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✣Sunday,
JANUARY 21 at 7:30 PM in Freeland in Whidbey
Island ✣
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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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✣Sunday,
February 18, 2024 at
7:30 pm on Whidbey
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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,
March 3 at 7:30 pm
on Whidbey ✣
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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
7:30 PM on Whidbey
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.
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
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updated March 29, 2024 ~ Suggested Donation for all
concerts:
$20 to $30
(a free will offering - everyone is most
welcome)
• 18 and under FREE •
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SSEMF
banner: detail from "The Last Time it Reached
Zero" by James C. Holl.
SSEMF presents
outstanding early
chamber music
on period instruments thanks
to your support.