Salish Sea Early Music Festival

We touched on this last week, but here is some more detailed information about this coming Wednesday’s performance at the Grange:

Louis XV – 1710 – 1774

Louis XV
The Elegant, Florid Melody of the Rococo in France featuring:
• Jeffery Cohan – baroque flute
• John Lenti – theorbo & baroque guitar

Experience the transformation through which musical taste evolved in France during the reign of Louis XV, who became king in 1715 at the age of five upon the death of his grandfather Louis XIV. France is our focal point, although we’re celebrating the 300th birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach throughout the festival, with a flute concerto in February, a trio sonata in May and in this program one of his flute sonatas, written during the reign of Louis XIV, most likely for Frederick the Great in Potsdam.

Our program includes:

• Jean-Marie Leclair – Sonata No. 3 in C Major from Second Livre de Sonates
• Michel Blavet – Flute Sonata No. 1 in G Major from Opus 2
• Michel Corrette – Sonatille No. 6 in G Major from Sonatilles, Opus 19
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonata in E Minor, WQ124 in honor of CPE’s 300th birthday
• Jean-Baptiste Antoine Forqueray – Chaconne La Buisson from Suite II from Pièces de viole, 1747 (transcribed for solo theory)

San Juan Island Grange, this Wednesday, January 22 at 7:00 PM • please share
152 – 1st Street in Friday Harbor · (360) 378-6632
The suggested donation (a free will offering) is $15 or $20, and youth 18 and under are free.

Additional performances of LOUIS XV in the San Juans:

• EASTSOUND: Tuesday, January 21 at 7:00 PM at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
  – 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound • (360) 376-6683
• LOPEZ ISLAND: Sunday evening, May 20 at 7:00 PM at Grace Church
  – 70 Sunset Lane • (360) 468-3477

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