Event

Heartland Baroque

Martha Perry, violin and director; David Wilson, violin; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; Keith Collins, dulcian; Adam Cockerham, theorbo.

"In every home, someone is playing a musical instrument or singing. There is music everywhere" (anonymous Frenchman visiting Venice in the 17th-Century)

Heartland Baroque is thrilled to perform a concert on the upcoming 2015 Early Music for Grace Festival, presenting "La Serenissima," a program which celebrates not only the allure of Venice, but also the unabashed achievement of several of its most active composers in and around the city in the middle of the 17-Century. In the baroque period, Venice is the veritable musical capital of Italy and is often considered one of the most alive and artistically innovative cities in the entirety of Europe. Musicians from north and west Europe stayed in Venice to learn from other composers, instrumentalists and singers born in Venice, or had themselves moved to its stimulating cultural and physical environment. Heartland Baroque members Martie Perry and David Wilson, baroque violins, Keith Collins, dulcian, Barbara Krumdieck, baroque cello, and Adam Cockerham, theorbo pay tribute to this forward-thinking musical world of 17th-Century Venice in a program of instrumental music full of deep delights from 17th-Century composers Biagio Marini, Marco Uccellini, Francesco Turini, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Dario Castello, Andrea Falconieri, Tarquinio Merula and Bartolomeo de Selma. Heartland Baroque dives into this musical world with vigor, showing off the immediacy and technical brilliance, the vivacity and profundity, the lilt, complexity, and spontaneity of these composers. This program of contrasts and startling alterations of mood, tempo, and spirit compels the listener to know how Venice rightfully earned the title, "The Musical Republic."
Tickets $15 general admission, $10 EMA/SFEMS/St. Alban's parishioners

This concert is part of the Early Music for Grace festival.