SPOKANE CATHEDRAL
OF
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
· 1115
W Riverside Avenue ·
(509) 358-4290
for information:
salishseafestival@aol.com
Suggested
Donation:
$20 or $25
(a free will offering - everyone is
most welcome)
•
18
and under FREE •
SSEMF presents outstanding early chamber music around
the Salish Sea and in Washington 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
✣
With special thanks
✣ to
the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes
2024
Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Spokane ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in Spokane and around the Salish Sea ~
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.
~
Earlier concerts this season
~
•
Tuesday,
January 30,
2024 at 7:00 PM
•
✣
✣
✣ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE CANZONAS ✣
✣
✣
Vicki
Boeckman ~ renaissance recorders
Jeffrey
Cohan ~ renaissance flute
Stephen
Creswell ~ viola
Anna
Marsh ~ renaissance bassoon (dulcian)
The
Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdesand the
Salish Sea Early Music Festival with
support from the Vinson Fund present
Renaissance Italian Canzonas with four
specialists performing on instruments of
the renaissance including Vicki Boeckman
on renaissance recorders, Jeffrey Cohan
on renaissance transverse flute, Stephen
Creswell on viola and Anna Marsh on
dulcian, or renaissance bassoon.
The concert will provide an in-depth
exploration of the Italian four-part
canzona which blossomed in print from
1582 through the early decades of the
1600’s and was inspired by French and
Flemish chansons of the early 1500’s. It
will trace the development of the
canzona from 1529, when commercial music
printing was just beginning in Europe,
through 1636 at which point more
“modern” stylistic forms such as the
sonata began to take the place of the
canzona, which had bridged the musical
styles of the Renaissance and the
Baroque. Canzonas by Andrea and Giovanni
Cima, Giacomo Biumi, Floriano Canale,
Giovanni Buonamente, Florentino
Maschera, and others are to be included
in the program along with instrumentl
renditions of the earlier French and
Flemish songs that inspired them. All
will be performed on the recorder,
transverse flute, viola and renaissance
bassoon or dulcian of the 16th century
which create a beautiful blend and
provide a distinct character to each of
the four intertwining musical lines.
This
concert only at the
Crossroads Event
Center
at
145 S. Main Street in
Colville:
✣
✣
✣Tuesday, April
30, 2024 at 6:00 PM in
Colville ✣
✣
✣
~
doors open at 5:30 PM
~
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.
~
Last season
~
✣
✣
✣Sunday
MAY 14, 2023 at 2:30 in
SPOKANE ✣
✣
✣
Giovanni
Bellini's Nunc dimittis, or the Song
of Simeon,
which
is also reflected in Johann
Sebastian Bach cantata Ich habe
genug
• Monday,
May
15, 2023 at 7:00 PM
• BACH
CANTATA: ICH HABE GENUG Maike
Albrecht ~ soprano
Hans-Jurgen Schnoor~
harpsichord
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Soprano
Maike Albrecht and
harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen
Schnoor from Lubeck, Germany
join baroque flutist Jeffrey
Cohan in Johann Sebastian Bach’s
cantata Ich habe genug and other
works
The
church cantata Ich habe genug
("I am content"), BWV 82 was
composed in Leipzig in 1727 for
the feast Purification of Mary
and is one of the most often
performed and recorded of Bach's
sacred cantatas. In this
cantata, based on the Song of
Simeon, Bach projects a feeling
of serene contentedness with
life and an expression of the
experience of body and soul
coming to rest and in complete
harmony beyond anything that
words alone can convey.
Jeffrey
Cohan,
renaissance
transverse
flutes
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni
Bassano (1585)
recorded
January 11,
2021
~
updated June 25, 2024 ~ Suggested Donation for
all concerts:
$20 or $25
(a free will offering - everyone welcome)
• 18 and under FREE •
Do you receive our email announcements and
flyers?!
Please sign our MAILING LIST (please specify Spokane)
by sending your
address and any other comments to salishseafestival@aol.com
~ thank you!
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.
