1600: Winds of the Renaissance
$15-$25 suggested donation
John Lenti, renaissance lute
Anna Marsh, dulcian
Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance transverse flute
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.
Anna Marsh, who grew up in Tacoma, is one of the premier players of the dulcian, which evolved into our modern 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 of three contrasting programs of renaissance, baroque and Beethoven-era chamber music.
This and all programs are to be repeated on Vashon, Orcas, Lopez, San Juan and Whidbey Islands and in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham and in Vancouver, BC. The 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes seven programs of 16th- to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the Northwest and the United States and Canada. [See full calendar here.]
Admission: $15-$25 suggested donation; 18 & under free.