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Salish Sea Early Music Festival • L’Apothéose de Lully
Tuesday early evening, May 10, 2022 at 6:00 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
Susie Napper (Montreal) ~ viola da gamba
Elisabeth Wright (Bloomington, Indiana)~ harpsichord
David Greenberg (Oregon) ~ baroque violin
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
François Couperin’s “The Apotheosis of Lully” was first published in 1725 to honor Jean-Baptiste Lully, the previous century’s most important French baroque musician who died 40 years earlier, and also to reconcile the grating differences of opinion among Frenchmen regarding French and Italian Baroque musical styles, which at that time encompassed very different and hotly contested stylistic territory. Couperin’s colorful, musically illustrated story to be narrated by Susie Napper is a unique and fascinating peek into court life at the court of Louis XIV.
Will the French king’s star musician make it to heaven or will his whispering critics deny him entry for all his sins?
Program:
— Georg Philipp Telemann 6e. Quatuor, from Nouveaux Quatuors en Six Suites (1738)
— Jean-Henry D’Anglebert Prélude from Pièces de Clavecin in G Minor (harpsichord solo)
— Marin Marais L’Arabesque from Pieces de viole, Livre IV (viola da gamba solo)
— Jean Baptiste Lully Passacaille from Trio de la Chambre du Roi LWV 35
— Arcangelo Corelli Adagio from Opus 5 No. 5 (violin solo)
— Archangelo Corelli Sonata XII Opus 2 “Ciacona”
— François Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully
About the performers:
Elisabeth Wright has taught for almost four decades at Indiana University School of Music as one of America’s most highly respected harpsichordists and has collaborated with many artists of international renown. Viola da gambist and cellist Susie Napper co-founded and directs the Montreal Baroque Festival and teaches at McGill University, the University of Montreal and the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen. She was awarded the «Prix Opus» 2002 for «Personality of the year» by the Conseil québécois de la musique, was named Woman of Merit for the Arts in Montreal in 2011 and has performed throughout the world. David Greenberg has performed in North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East as a baroque violinist and Cape Breton fiddler and has performed with many of North America’s most well known period instrument orchestras and ensembles. Flutist Jeffrey Cohan is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and has performed worldwide on flutes from the renaissance through the present.
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound on Orcas Island
Masks and vaccination required – thank you!
Suggested Donation: $15, $20 or $25 • 18 and under FREE
See www.salishseafestival.org/
