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Sunday,
November 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Sing, O My Soul:
A Feast of
Handel
Linda Tsatsanis ~
soprano
Jeffrey Cohan ~
baroque flute
George Shangrow ~
harpsichord
Blessed Sacrament Church
5041 – 9th Ave NE in Seattle’s
University District
Concert
Spirituel
commemorates the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel with a
sumptuous musical feast and celebration on period instruments, to include How
Beautiful are the Feet of Them that Preach the Gospel of Peace from Handel’s
Messiah, several of Handel's exquisite Nine German Arias
including My Soul Hears in Seeing, Flaming Rose, Earth’s Adornment
and Sweet Silence, Soft Source of Calm Tranquility, as well as the
cantata Nell dolce dell'oblio for soprano, flute and continuo. In
addition, the 350th birthday of Henry Purcell (1659-1695), and the 300th
birthday of Michel Corrette (1709-1795) will be celebrated with a
Sonatille by Corrette and three songs by Purcell: If Music be the Fruit
of Love, The Plaint from The Fairy Queen and Hark, the
Ech’ing Air.
Suggested donation $15 (a free
will contribution towards expenses)
~ Youth 18 and under free ~
(800) 281-8026 for info
• ADDITIONAL NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
2009 PERFORMANCES of A Feast of Handel
~ November 28 (Saturday)
at 7:30 PM: Bellingham — St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. • (360) 733-2890
~ November 29 (Sunday
eve) at 7:00 PM: Everett — Our Savior’s
Lutheran Church, 215 Mukilteo Boulevard in Everett • (425) 252-9413
~ December 4 (Friday) at
7:00 PM: Anacortes — call (360) 293-2034
for details
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August 2, 2004
THE WASHINGTON POST
"Jeffrey Cohan, George Shangrow" (headline)
You might wonder how a concert made up of Handel sonatas...might rivet an
audience's attention for an entire evening. But Saturday it worked gloriously.
Superb playing outlined Handel's bizarre melodic turns and jarring harmonies,
reproducing the dramatic impact of opera arias.
Cohan transformed Handel's often bare, skeletal melodies, with improvisations
unwinding in fancifully embellished peregrinations -- all mellow-toned, yet
exhorting a "message" in character portrayals with the dogged exuberance of a
political candidate.
Ideally balanced, the performers fueled the music's gripping metrical drive,
escaping into rhythmic elasticity for momentary expressive asides.
-- Cecelia Porter
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Canadian born soprano LINDA TSATSANIS enjoys an active and diverse career
spanning the concert hall, the opera stage, and performance in movies and
television, making early music a specialty. Described by the New York Times as
"ravishing" for her performance in the Boston Early Music Festival, she has also
made appearances at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival and Bloomington Early
Music Festival. Roles in early opera productions include Venus in Venus and
Adonis, Valletto in L'incoronazione de Poppea, Musica in L'Orfeo and Arthebuze
in Acteon. Ms. Tsatsanis has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Baroque
Orchestra, Auburn Symphony, Seattle Choral Company and Orchestra Seattle and
performs regularly with the Tudor Choir, Cappella Romana and the Seattle Opera
Chorus. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Indiana University
and can be heard on recordings by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Naxos
and Origin Classical. With Plaine & Easie, she just won first prize in Early
Music America’s Medieval and Renaissance Competition.
Flutist JEFFREY COHAN has performed as soloist in 25 countries, having
received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the
foremost specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the
present. He is the only person to win both the Erwin Bodky Award in Boston, and
the highest prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica
Antiqua in Brugge, Belgium. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young
Artist Awards Competition, he has performed throughout Europe, Australia, New
Zealand and the United States, and worldwide for the USIA Arts America Program.
He received the highest rating from the Music Panel of the National Endowment
for the Arts, and has recorded for NPR in the United States, and for national
radio and television in Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Fiji and
the Solomon Islands. Many works have been written for and premiered by him,
including four new flute concerti since 2000. He is artistic director of the
Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC and the Cascade Early
Music Festival. He can "play many superstar flutists one might name under the
table" according to the New York Times.
Harpsichordist GEORGE SHANGROW is Music Director and founder of Orchestra
Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers. He has been featured guest conductor
with the Sapporo (Japan) Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Northwest
Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles. He has conducted world premieres of six
operas and numerous orchestral works, and was Music Director and Conductor of
Pacific Chamber Opera from 1976 to 1978. Mr. Shangrow has taught at Seattle
University, Seattle Community College and has been Director of the Seattle
Conservatory of Music, and is a frequent lecturer throughout the Northwest.
Having toured Europe several times as keyboardist and conductor, he is a sought
after accompanist and has appeared in recital on piano and harpsichord with many
noted soloists. Mr. Shangrow has recorded with Voyager Records, Edel Records and
Lyman Digital Recording. Concerts and literally thousands of interviews with
local and world famous musicians on Classic KING-FM's "Live By George" have
contributed to his place as one of the most prominent and highly respected
classical musicians in the Pacific Northwest.
MAY 1-4, 2009
• Empfindsamkeit: Clavichord and Flute
Owen
Daly ~
clavichord
Jeffrey
Cohan ~
baroque flute
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Friday, May 1, 2009 at 8:00 PM: Conway — Fir-Conway Lutheran Church at
18101 Fir Island Road • (360)
445-5396
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Saturday afternoon, May 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM: Seattle — Christ Episcopal
Church at 4548 Brooklyn Avenue NE in the University District
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Sunday evening, May 3, 2009 at 7:30 PM: Vashon Island —
Vashon United Methodist Church at 17928 Vashon Highway SW • (206)
463-9804
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Monday, May 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM: Bellingham — St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. • (360) 733-2890
Empfindsamkeit is a mid-18th century guiding principle prescribing the most
delicate, sensitive use of musical color which was highly espoused by Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach, who happened to be one of Beethoven’s favorite composers.
The program will feature music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann
Gottfried Müthel, Johann Joachim Quantz and František Benda.
The clavichord is wonderfully soft and was often used as a practice instrument
by organists and other 18th-century keyboard players. However it was highly
esteemed for its expressive potential as, unlike the harpsichord and the organ,
it was capable of both vibrato and a wide range of dynamics, in accordance with
the amount of pressure applied to the keys.
suggested donation $15 (a free will offering towards expenses)
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Youth 18 and under are encouraged to come for free ~
(800) 281-8026 for further info.
A TELEMANN CANTATA FOR DECEMBER 14 2008
YULETIDE BAROQUE, a Christmas Concert with special
guest soprano Linda Tsatsanis, flutist Jeffrey Cohan and
harpsichordist George Shangrow will be presented as the first of
seven performances (see below) on Sunday afternoon, December
14, 2008 at 2 PM at Blessed Sacrament Church at 5041 – 9th
Avenue NE in the University District.
The Brightness of This Clear Day (Vor des lichten Tages Schein), a mini-cantata which Telemann
wrote for this very day, the second Sunday before Christmas,
will be performed along with Telemann’s cantata Was gleicht
dem Adel wahrer Christen for the Sunday following Christmas,
baroque Noels arranged by J.S. Bach, Dandrieu and Corrette,
variations on a German carol by French composer Michel Corrette,
and anonymous 18th-century variations on What
Child is This, alias Greensleeves. The program is
certain to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer! |
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