Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival

Presented in collaboration with Brickworks and the San Juan Agricultural Guild, the concert takes place on Wednesday evening, July 10, at 7 p.m. (not July 6 as originally planned) at Brickworks at 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor. Admission is by suggested donation (a free-will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 and under are free. For more information please see www.salishseafestival.org/sanjuan.

The program will demonstrate the unparalleled mystery and emotional intensity of Bach’s compositional skill, featuring transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) originally for viola da gamba and another for violin, both with obbligato (or fully written-out) harpsichord in addition to sonatas originally written for flute by Bach both with continuo (a bass line with numbers denoting harmonies from which the harpsichordist improvises) and with obbligato harpsichord. Faythe Vollrath will play variations for solo harpsichord by Johann Adam Reinken (1643-1722) on the popular 17th-century German folk tune “Schweiget mir von Weibernehmen” (‘shush, no more talk about womanizing”). Reinken was greatly admired by Bach, who made arrangements of several of his works.