Our thirteenth season is underway!

We are excited to bring you a stellar line-up of concerts for our thirteenth season. Scroll down below to see our next up-coming events, and you can click here to look at the entire season line-up. Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list (click here) if you’re not already on it. That way you will have all the latest news about upcoming concerts.

 

 

Our next concert…

 

SÉMPLICE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 6:00 PM MST

 

“Lovebirds”
A Valentine’s Day Offering

 

Sémplice returns to Happy Hour with a heart-felt concert of Baroque and Renaissance music (and a touch of folk) celebrating the amorous in all its forms—with a special focus on lovebirds! Think music about love, music about birds, music by Byrd (William, the composer), music by Bach (why Bach?—come to this concert and find out!)…and much more. And as always, there will be entertaining stories about the composers, the instruments, and the cultural context in which the music was created.

 

The Performers
     Miriam Rosenblum, recorders
     Carla Sciaky, baroque violin, voice
     Ben Cohen, lute and harpsichord 
     Sarah Biber, baroque cello and bass viol

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Program

 

“Jug of Punch” – traditional

 

In Nomine a 4, VdGS No. 1, T 393 – William Byrd (1540-1623)

Three pieces by William Byrd
     “Is Love a Boy?”
     “Boy, Pity Me”
     Fantasia a 4, VdGS No. 2

 

Andante from Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Andante from Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 – J.S. Bach

Allegro from Trio Sonata in D minor, H 569 – C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788)

 

“Flow My Tears” – John Dowland (1563-1626)

Robin Galliard – Dowland

 

“When Daphne from Fair Phoebus Did Fly” – Anonymous (16^th century)

 

Throughout the program—excerpts from “The Bird Fancyer’s Delight” (published by John Walsh, 1717)

 

And then…

SEICENTO
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 6:00 PM MDT

 

“Renaissance Women”
Music by Women Composers of the Seicento Period and Beyond

 

Seicento returns to Happy Hour with a concert of music composed by women of the Renaissance and Baroque. The program features composers such as Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590), Victoria Aleotti (c.1575-after 1620), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), and Anna Bon (1738-after 1769). The performance will feature Jerimiah Otto on harpsichord, as well as select period instruments and vocalists. Much of this repertoire is rarely performed, but deserves every bit of the attention of early music lovers.

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We hope we’ll see you at one of our concerts!