2022 Concert Series
Concerts are at 8pm Tuesdays in Lincoln / Wednesdays in Andover / Thursdays in Boston
Videos premiere Fridays on Youtube
This season’s concerts remain available to watch on our YouTube channel.
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Memento Mori
Sarah Coffman, soprano & viola da gamba
Charles Iner, lute
June 28-30 Memento mori
in dirges sad delight
In Dirges Sad Delight is a rumination on death, on sorrow, on what lies beyond this material veil. The poets and composers of 17th-century England returned time and again to these themes, through both sacred and secular works, examining the purgation of the soul at its passing, and the effects of death upon those still living. In this program, Memento Mori offers works by Dowland, Danyel, Campion, Coprario, and other luminaries of the English Renaissance in a mournful reverie realized by the voice, the lute, and the viol. Experience catharsis and solace as we walk up against the barrier between nature and mortality.
July 5-7 Arcadia Viols
restless hexachords
Arcadia Viols presents a thought-provoking tour of English, German and contemporary American music for viol consort and lute. The program opens with selections from John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, followed by the solo lute version of the first piece of the collection, the famous Flow my teares. The ensemble offers a wonderful fantasy on the Lachrimae composed for Arcadia Viols by Will Ayton. English pieces based on the hexachord lead to the world premiere of Larry Wallach’s Restless Hexachords for five viols. German music concludes the tour with a suite of dances, Froberger’s fantasia on the hexachord, and the appealing Canzona Bergamasca by Samuel Scheidt. Learn More
Arcadia Viols
Robert Eisenstein, bass viol
Jane Hershey, tenor & treble viols
Douglas Kelley, bass viol
Anne Legêne, tenor viol
Alice Robbins, alto & treble viols
Hideki Yamaya, lute & theorbo
MIRYAM & Les Enfants d’Orphée
Alicia DePaolo, soprano
Hilary Anne Walker, mezzo-soprano
Corey Hart, tenor
Henry Clapp, bass
Na’ama Lion, flute
Emily Hale, violin
Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba
Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
July 12-14 miryam & Les enfants d’orphÉe
Music of Resilience and Rebirth in the Judeo-Baroque
MIRYAM Baroque Ensemble joins Les Enfants d'Orphée for a celebration of Jewish baroque music in 17th century Europe, from the synagogues of Carpentras and Bordeaux to the cosmopolitan Portuguese Esnoga of Amsterdam, and from the Jewish Scuola of Mantua to the King’s Chapel in Paris. These communities united members of different Jewish traditions, including Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Italki, and Judeo-Contadin, who were also deeply immersed in their secular cultures around them. Their music demonstrates how these composers negotiated their place in their surrounding culture while also expressing their identity as Jews, both reveling in the vibrancy of Jewish life and nodding to darker stories of persecution, exclusion, and expulsion. These rarely-heard works offer stories of communal resilience and rebirth that remain relevant today. Learn More
July 19-21 Julia connor, violin
The Lonesome Touch: Solo Bach and the Music of East Clare
"The lonesome touch" is a common moniker for the East Clare Irish music tradition, which is considered the oldest surviving regional folk music style in Ireland. Characterized by slower tempi, prevalence of minor keys and modes, and sparse ornamentation, this music has been passed down aurally for hundreds of years. This program for solo violin brings together traditional dance tunes from East Clare and J.S. Bach's d minor partita, interspersing sets of Clare tunes between movements of Bach. Juxtaposing the dance sets with the dance-inspired movements of Bach casts each in a new light, highlighting the dance origins of the Bach while inviting audiences to consider the artistry, nuance, and deep understanding of tradition that go into a compelling fiddle performance.
Julia Connor, violin
Emily O’Brien, recorders
July 26-28 Emily O’Brien, Recorders
The Recorder alonE
The recorder is traditionally primarily an ensemble instrument–but what do you do with a wind instrument during an airborne pandemic? This program explores several ways that the recorder may play unaccompanied: music where the bass line is explicitly optional; ways that a single player may cover multiple lines; and original unaccompanied repertoire. In this program, virtuoso musician Emily O’Brien borrows from the stringed instrument works of Ortiz and Bach, the wind repertoire of Bassano and Boismortier, and she’ll present the premiere of a new work by Michael O'Brien for the solo recorder that commemorates our collective emergence from the pandemic. Learn More
August 2-4 Newton Baroque
musica transalpina
This program of scintillating concerti and trio sonatas features the many Italian composers active in German-speaking cities in the early 18th century. Many of them remain rarely heard; because much of the 20th-c. revival of Baroque music was grounded in nationalism, German music scholarship tended to focus on native German composers while steering away from the talented Italian musicians who had crossed the Alps. Meanwhile, Italian scholarship focused on those Italians who remained south of the Alps, thereby omitting a treasure trove of musical contributions. Bringing these oft-overlooked artists into the spotlight, Newton Baroque performs works by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello from Bologna, active in Munich and Stuttgart, Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco from Verona, who worked in Munich, and Giovanni Benedetto Platti of Padua, who spent his career in Würzburg. Learn More
Newton Baroque
Alison Gangler, oboe
Jesse Irons, Emily Dahl Irons, Laura Gulley, violins
Emily Rideout, viola
Sarah Freiberg Ellison, cello
Allen Hamrick, bassoon
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
The Pandora Consort
Kendra Comstock, soprano
Angie Tyler, soprano
Ruth McKay, harpsichord
August 9-11 THE pandora consort
vox feminae: songs of powerful women
The Pandora Consort presents a musical exploration of heroic women throughout history. By combining music, art, and movement, this performance brings to life the stories of Eurydice, Susannah, Cleopatra, and other historical heroines. Inspired by the lives of these figures as well as the women who set their stories to music, this program features works by early female composers: Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, Isabella Leonarda, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. SoHIP marks the debut performance of the Pandora Consort, a newly formed early music ensemble focused on reimagining the performance of Classical music with multimedia, interactive performance, and exploring underrepresented music and composers. Learn More