UPDATE: 2013-14 Season in Seattle!

UPDATE:

The Fall Fundraising Fiesta will be held at Trinity Parish Church, in the Parish Hall, starting at 5:30 PM. Please click HERE  to get your tickets/make your contribution before the event.

For 2013-14 we present three diverse programs.

Concert I: 5 October 2013
Fall Fundraising Fiesta! A fundraising concert and party at Trinity Parish Church in the Parish Hall, featuring food, wine, & four centuries of music. Visit our website and click on the "Tickets" tab for more information about this event.

Concert II: 8 February 2014
Galant and Grounded: Paying for Time Travel with the Currency of Music.
In this concert we travel between the Galant style of the 18th century and the rhapsodic, capricious styles of the 17th century. Music by Fontana, Fiorè, Gabrielli, Kapsberger, Kirnberger, Blavet, and CPE Bach.

Concert III: 3 May 2014
Good Day Sun King: Baroque Music from New Orleans and New France.
Baroque music in New Orleans? Founded in 1718 by the French, it was not long before the Lower Mississippi Valley was populated with French people and French culture. And up river in Montreal and Québec, Parisian music publishers provided the northernmost part of New France with music of all types from "back home." Vocal and instrumental music from New Orleans's Ursuline Manuscript of 1736, plus music by Monteclair, Couperin, Marais, and other composers from the reign of Louis XIV.

Feast of Hamburgers: Music from Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Our 2011-12 Season begins on September 17, 2011.

German Baroque is more than J S Bach in Leipzig, the formidable Hofkapelle in Dresden, or the musical establishments of Frederick the Great in Berlin and Potsdam. Since the seventeenth century the city of Hamburg has held an important place in music and international trade, and in the eighteenth century it became a major music center. This was no doubt the result of composers such as Telemann, Mattheson, and later CPE Bach living there. Even George Frideric Handel worked in Hamburg early in his career, where he gained valuable experience that he would later use as an opera composer. Kim Pineda, August Denhard, Max Fuller, and Bernard Gordillo explore the repast of chamber music by these Hamburger composers. And we are happy to again have the music of Tim Risher on our program. His composition "River" was written for Kim Pineda and was premiered in August 2011 at the National Flute Association's Annual Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Our Program

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio Sonata in b, TWV 42:h4
From Essercizii Musici overo Dodeci Soli e Dodeci Trii a diversi stromenti (c. 1730s)
Largo
Vivace
Dolce
Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Aria [and improvisation], BWV 988

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo in g, HWV 364b
Andante Larghetto
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776)
Sonata I in D for flute and obliggato harpsichord
Adagio
Allegro
Andante
Poco Presto

INTERMISSION

Tim Risher (b. 1957)
River (2009)
Flute and Harpsichord

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)
Sonata III in A, from Brauchbare Virtuoso, 1720
Adagio
Allegro
Grave
Giga

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in G, H. 554
Adagio
Allegro
Vivace