Early Music Festival at St. David’s this weekend….
Posted January 10, 2011 at 4:08 am by Ian Byington
The king, as a kid
This early music festival starts this weekend at St. David’s with music that was composed & played by the court’s musicians when they put child king Louis XIV to bed – a practice he continued after he grew up. Here’s more:
The first annual Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents four programs of early chamber music on period instruments on Lopez, Orcas and San Juan Islands in January, February, March and April of 2011. The opening program is entitled Putting Louis XIV to Bed: The King’s Musicians and will feature John Lenti on baroque guitar and theorbo (a long-necked lute), baroque bassoonist Anna Marsh, baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan and baroque violinist Courtney Kuroda, with baroque oboist Sand Dalton joining the group on Lopez only.
This concert will take place on Saturday, January 15 at 7:00 PM at Grace Church on Lopez Island; on Sunday, January 16 at 1:30 PM at Emmanuel Church in Eastsound on Orcas Island; and also on Sunday, January 16 at 7:00 PM at St. David’s Church in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. The suggested donation, a free will offering towards expenses, will be $15 for each of the concerts. Youth 18 and under are free. For further information call 468-3477 on Lopez Island, 376-2352 on Orcas Island, and 378-5360 in Friday Harbor, or visit www.concertspirituel.org.
The program of 18 Trios to Put the King to Bed and other several late 17th-century manuscripts from the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, many of them unpublished, will reveal the moving and irresistible melodies which surrounded Louis XIV, even at bedtime. Composers to be represented include the king’s guitar instructor Robert de Visee and Marin Marais, both among the musicians who serenaded Louis XIV at bedtime, and Jean-Baptiste Lully. The baroque bassoon and theorbo (a long-necked lute) were widely used, and the transverse flute was newly fashionable in the 1680’s.
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