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" The commentary on the music captured my
imaginationI started to hear the themes and enhancements which
enriched my listening experience...wonderful...." L. E. Falls
Church, VA
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2009-2010 Season
Purcell’s Passion: the Skill of Musick
Music by Jenkins, Locke, and Purcell
(b. 1659)
for violins and continuo and for consort of viols
Sunday, October 18, 2009, at 5:30 PM
Grace and St. Peter’s Church, 707 Park Avenue, Baltimore
Friday, November 13, 2009, at 8:00 PM
Old Town Hall, 3999 University Drive, Fairfax
Soggiorno Italiano
Featuring sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi
and their contemporaries
Sunday, February 7, 2010, at 4:00 PM
Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park Street NE, Vienna
Benefit for New Hope
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 12:00 noon
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G Street NW, Washington
Splendors of Versailles
Reflections of courtly elegance
Sunday, May 2, 2010, at 4:00 PM
St. Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean
Tickets: Adults $15 Students and Seniors $10
703-395-2899
Washington Early Music Festival
Thursday, June 24 at 8 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Church 3rd and A Streets, SE Washington, DC
All dates, times, places and programs subject to change—please
check back.
Current Program Details:
SPLENDORS OF VERSAILLES
A Program of French Baroque Chamber Music
from the time of Louis XV
featuring:
Jean-Marie Leclair: Overture in D major, Op. 13, No. 2 (1753)
for 2 violins and continuo
Marin Marais: Sonate à la Maresienne, from La Gamme (1723)
for violin and continuo
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Cinquième Concert, from Pièces de clavecin en concert (1741)
for violin, viol, and harpsichord
Intermission
Leclair: Sonata in E minor, Op. 3, No. 5 (1730)
for 2 unaccompanied violins
Rameau: Two movements in E minor, from Pièces de clavessin (1724)
for harpsichord solo
François Couperin: Sonade L’Impériale, from Les Nations (1726)
for 2 violins and continuo
Alexandra MacCracken, baroque
violin and director
Caroline Levy, baroque violin
Daniel Rippe, viola da gamba
Elena Tsai, harpsichord
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