Sunday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., Adventist Church
— from Jeffrey Cohan for Salish Sea Early Music Festival —
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents “A Journey with Dr. Burney”
featuring Montreal cellist Susie Napper, German harpsichordist
Hans-Jürgen Schnoor and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan on Sunday, March 8
at 7:30 pm at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted
Forest Road in Eastsound.
This is the third of this season’s seven performances at the Orcas
Adventist Fellowship Church extending through May 17, featuring some of
the finest period instrument specialists from North America and Europe
in chamber music from the Renaissance through Beethoven, all on period
instruments.
Music historian Charles Burney (1726-1814) met Handel, Haydn, CPE Bach
and many of Europe’s celebrated composers over the course of his life
and traveled extensively through France, Italy, Austria and Germany
between 1770 and 1772 to interview musicians and gather information for
his “History of Music”. The breadth of national and evolving musical
characteristics that he encountered will be reflected in chamber music
by composers including George Friderick Handel, Carl Philipp Emanuel and
Johann Christian Bach, Frederich II of Prussia, Franz Joseph Haydn,
Franz Benda and Giovanni Battista Sammartini.
Admission is by suggested donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will
offering), and those 18 & under are free. For additional information
please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas.
