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Museum Concerts 2009-2010 Season |
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MUSICIANS
OF THE OLD POST ROAD Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3:30 pm
The
Humanity and Humor of Mozart
Suzanne Stumpf, flute; Sarah Darling and
Karina Fox, violins; Marcia Cassidy, viola; Daniel Ryan, cello; Michael
Bahmann, fortepiano
Musicians of the Old Post Road has been captivating audiences in the U. S. and abroad with its exciting programming and virtuoso performances. As a chamber ensemble specializing in the period instrument performance of music from the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods, the ensemble specializes in offering a dynamic and diverse repertory that includes rediscovered works that have been lost to audiences for centuries. Winner of the 1998 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road has toured in Germany, Austria, Mexico, and has appeared at festivals and on concert series in the U. S. This program explores the extraordinary emotional range and depth of this beloved Classical master. The program will include the Flute Quartet in D Major, K.285, the eloquent Piano Quartet in E-flat Major. K.493, and the Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 145, in Mozart’s own chamber arrangement.
(“Scintillating performances of sentiment and sparkle” — BBC Music Magazine)
At The Cathedral of St. John, 271 N Main St, Providence, RI
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CHRISTOPHER LOWREY Sunday, December 13, 2009, 3:30 pm
Of God and of Men: Bach & Handel Works for Countertenor & Chamber Orchestra
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor; Michael Bahmann and Frederick Jodry, harpsichords; chamber orchestra led by Judson Griffin
Museum Concerts is happy to welcome countertenor Christopher Lowrey back from England for a visit and a concert. Lowrey, currently enrolled in the Royal College of Music International Opera School, graduated from Brown University, where he began to gain a following as a singer. Lowrey returns to sing some of his “desert island” music, great works for countertenor by Bach and Handel, two giants of the Baroque era who wrote stunning music for this voice type. On the program are Bach Cantata 170 (“Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul”), Handel Arias from favorite operas and The Messiah, along with the concerto for two harpsichords in C Major.
(“Lowrey [displayed] the flexibility of his plangent counter-tenor...”—The Times of London)
At The Cathedral of St. John, 271 N Main St, Providence, RI
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 HESPERUS Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3:30 pm
The Mark of Zorro: Movie Night with Live Improvised Renaissance Music!
Tina Chancey, early violin, viola da gamba; Grant Herreid, early guitar, lute, tenor recorder
Get out your hankies and prepare to be enchanted! You won’t find a more entertaining event than a screening of a silent film classic, accompanied by its own live score of period music performed by the award-winning early music ensemble Hesperus. This concert is a showing of Douglas Fairbanks’ first swashbuckler, the 1920 film Mark of Zorro, with a live score of improvised Spanish renaissance dances; the folia, canarios, jacara, romanesca, and others popular in colonial California when the film was set. This is Hesperus’ fifth silent film/early music collaboration, and its second Fairbanks partnership (the first was Robin Hood). Innovative, historically informed and multi-cultural, Hesperus brings history alive with silent movie scores, cultural fusions and single-genre early music programs from the Middle Ages through the American Revolution. Whatever the genre, Hesperus performs with creative energy, technical assurance and a sense of fun.
Since 1979, Hesperus has appeared throughout the U. S., Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe, most recently at Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Lincoln Center, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Cloisters, as well as at festivals in Italy, Germany, Indonesia and Bolivia. Awards include the Logan Prize for Excellence in Educational Programming, the Music and Humanity Award from Music at Gretna, the Baltimore Chamber Music Award, and for director Tina Chancey, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Early Music America.
(“Engaging stage presence, backed by programs put together with exceptional imagination… irresistible!” --The Washington Post)
At the auditorium, First Unitarian Church, 1 Benevolent St, Providence, RI
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BOSTON MUSEUM TRIO at RISD MUSEUM OF ART Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3:30 pm
Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; John Gibbons, harpsichord
The internationally acclaimed Boston Museum Trio presents a concert of great chamber works of the 17th and 18th centuries from around Europe, from Bach to Tartini, Marais to Scarlatti. Founded in 1973, the Trio is a collaboration of three distinguished musicians. In 1975 they became the resident performing ensemble at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, where they offer an annual series of concerts. Their repertoire includes works of the French, Italian, and German Baroque, and extends into the early classical period. Besides touring throughout the United States and Canada, the Trio has played in major European festivals in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy. As members of Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, they have performed throughout Europe and Australia. The Trio has recorded on the Titanic, Harmonia Mundi, and Pro Arte (Philips) labels. Two of the Trio’s recordings, Bach’s Works for Violin and Basso Continuo and Buxtehude’s Sonate a Due, have received the "Recording of Special Merit" award from Stereo Review magazine. (“Pure bliss”-- The Boston Globe)
At 2:30, before the concert, Prof. Andrew Raftery will present a selection of prints from the RISD collection relating to the period of the music.
At the Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI
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At door In advance All four concerts
General $25 $23 $90
Senior $22
$20 $78
Student $8
$8 $32
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Tickets in advance by mail or via ArtTixRI.com. Subscriptions by mail or at the door.
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Museum Concerts
P. O. Box 23055
Providence,RI 02903 |
Phone: 401-621-6123 |
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