Joy, Pleasure, and Sweet Nourishment: A Concert of Early Music

Joy, Pleasure, and Sweet Nourishment:
A Concert of Early Music
January 11-13, 2019

Join us as we set sail on the English Channel in a program of glorious medieval, renaissance, and baroque music! Scrag Mountain Music Artistic Directors Mary Bonhag (soprano) and Evan Premo (double bass / viola da gamba) are joined by versatile guest artists Priscilla Herreid (baroque oboe / recorders), Paul Holmes Morton (theorbo / lute / baroque guitar) and Michael Unterman (cello) for a concert that transports us back in time with works by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, John Dowland, John Eccles, G.F. Handel, Guillaume de Machaut, Henry Purcell, and Matthew Ricketts.

CONCERT DETAILS

Friday, January 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Bread & Butter Farm
200 Leduc Farm Road, Shelburne, VT

Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Christ Episcopal Church
64 State Street, Montpelier, VT

Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Warren United Church
339 Main Street, Warren, VT

Admission is "Come as you are. Pay what you can."

ARTIST Note

Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods has the ability to transport us back to a time when rules about harmony and rhythm were still being adapted and when life moved at a slower pace. During these times (and really up until more recently), music was an integral part of the daily fabric of life, whether in a monastery or at court. Music was practical as it was artful.

I love singing early music, and so it is always a pleasure to have the opportunity to share this repertoire and its sometimes unfamiliar sounds (and instruments!) with our community. If you haven’t heard of a theorbo - a six-foot lute - you are not alone! I have two degrees in music and only learned of this large lute five or so years ago.

This program brings us back in time with us with a work by living composer Matthew Ricketts that invokes the spirit of early music without representing it directly. It then highlights the music of John Dowland, G.F. Handel, Henry Purcell, and others whose music was meant to entertain, please, delight, and nourish the souls and senses of royalty and the nobility who surrounded them. - Mary Bonhag

PROGRAM

John Dowland
Lute songs
Guillaume de Machaut
Songs
Henry Purcell
If Music Be the Food of Love
Evening Hymn
Matthew Ricketts
Situation from Song Cycle
John Eccles
Sonata No. 11 in G minor
Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Sonata in G Major for two cellos
G.F. Handel
Cantata Venus and Adonis

ARTISTS

Mary Bonhag (soprano)
Priscilla Herreid (baroque oboe and recorders)
Paul Holmes Morton (theorbo, lute, baroque guitar)
Evan Premo (double bass and viola da gamba)
Michael Unterman (baroque cello)