Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
— from Jeffrey Cohan —
On May 19, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival begins its Spring Festival of three concerts with Winds of the Renaissance, featuring dulcian player Anna Marsh with lutenist John Lenti.
The elusive dulcian, the rarely heard renaissance transverse flute and the lute will be showcased in an evening of 16th and early 17th-century chamber music entitled WINDS of the RENAISSANCE on Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound.
Anna Marsh, who grew up in Tacoma, is one of the premier players of the dulcian, which evolved into today’s bassoon but was softer, much sweeter and more supple. Jeffrey Cohan is one of very few flutists who regularly perform solo music for the renaissance transverse flute. The two wind players team up with renaissance lutenist John Lenti, who is constantly in motion all around the country playing lutes and guitars of all sorts, in this first program in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s Spring Festival of three contrasting performances of renaissance, baroque and Beethoven-era chamber music.
The 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes six programs of 16th to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments on Orcas Island, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the Northwest and the United States and Canada. Please see www.salishseafestival.org for the complete schedule.
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church is located at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound. The suggested donation is $15, $20 or $25, 18 and under free. For more information, go to www.salishseafestival.org, or call Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at (360) 376-6683
