Winds of the Baroque

Anna Marsh

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is coming to Friday Harbor Saturday afternoon, January 24 at 2:00 pm at the San Juan Island Grange at 152 First Street. Here’s a note about the concert from Salish Sea Festival’s Jeffrey Cohan:

Our opening 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performance features Tacoma native and Ithaca NY resident Anna Marsh who is constantly in flight from one baroque bassoon performance to another with orchestras and groups all around the country and in Canada, along with harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie and myself. We hope to provide a completely new impression of what “bassoon” and “flute” mean in the baroque context: Sweet and warm, with fuller textures and a high degree of supple flexibility. We’re really looking forward to it and hope to see you there! – Jeffrey

Jeffrey Cohan

It will be a remarkably intimate and refreshing experience featuring:

• Anna Marsh ~ Baroque Bassoon
• Sand Dalton ~ Baroque Oboe & Flute
• Jeffrey Cohan ~ Baroque Flute
• Jonathan Oddie ~ Harpsichord

Need more? Here’s a review of a program earlier this month in Vancouver, BC:
— Vancouver Classical Music, January 11, 2015, Vancouver, BC

A Lovely Baroque Divertissement From Brotherton, Cohan And Stubbs A remarkably intimate and refreshing experience. The two Handel arias are both rejuvenating pieces and I thought the soprano brought a particularly fresh radiance to them. There was joy and love aplenty here, quite irresistible in its sense of innocence and spontaneity.  …let me acknowledge, first off, just how well the underpinning of Cohan and Stubbs brought out the variety and motion of this work. Jeffrey Cohan has such quickness and dynamic range, such a keen control of accents, and such mastery at floating the soft limpid phrase that the combination with Stephen Stubbs’ own brand of structural solidity and insight gave us something pretty special indeed.  There should be more late afternoon concerts of this type. They are such a refreshing ‘time out’ from the rest of your schedule, especially when they involve artistry like this. © Geoffrey Newman 2015

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