||| FROM JEFFREY COHAN for SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL||
✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷
— Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM:
• Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque & Folk •
— Oleg TImofeyev (lute, English guitar and 1820 7-string guitar)
— Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance descant, tenor and bass, baroque and 1820 8-keyed flutes)
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound
— Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish)
www.salishseafestival.org/orcas
✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷
“Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque and Folk: Three Centuries of Folk Song” features guitarist Oleg Timofeyev and flutist Jeffrey Cohan in a performance of European and especially Scottish and Irish inspired music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic periods, with eight plucked instruments and transverse flutes from three centuries.
The program, in three parts, opens with settings of Psalms and variations on folk melodies by early 17th-century flutist Jacob Van Eyck, lutenist Nicolas Vallet and others performed on renaissance descant, tenor and bass transverse flutes and lute. Then, baroque flute and the rare but once extremely popular wire-strung English Guitar of the 18th century will be heard performing the folk tunes of Scotland and Ireland as interpreted and varied by the early 18th-century composers Francesco Barsanti, Turlough O’Carolan, James Oswald and others. Finally, an Eastern European 7-string guitar made in 1820 in Russia alongside an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820 bring to life variations on popular tunes by Mauro Giuliani, Louis Drouet, Charles Nicholson and other virtuoso flutists and guitarists of Beethoven’s day.
We’re appreciative of the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church for enabling our sharing this music with you!
