Final Salish Sea Early Music Festival for 2023

Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

The final Salish Sea Early Music Festival program in 2023, Italian 17th-Century Three-Part Canzonas, features Anna Marsh on dulcian (renaissance bassoon), John Lenti on theorbo and renaissance lute, and Jeffrey Cohan on renaissance transverse flute on Wednesday, June 21 at 7 p.m. at Brickworks at 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org. (The website has been updated.) Please see our complete San Juan Islands schedule below.

This program offers an unusual and extensive exploration of the fabric of early 17th-century life in Italy (mostly) through the perspective of the very rarely heard dulcian or renaissance bassoon, the theorbo and renaissance lute, and the renaissance transverse flute.

The program includes a solo lute Fantasia by Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (1540-1593), a Canzona (1636) by Giovanni Battista Buonamente (c1595–1642), a Sonata and Cantantibus organis by Giovanni Paolo Cima (c1570–1630) from his Concerti Ecclesiastici (Milan 1610), five Canzonas by Tarquinio Merula (1594/5-1665) from his Opus 12 (1637) and Opus 17 (1651), a Fantasia for dulcian solo as well as divisions on Vestiva e colli for flute and dulcian, both published in 1638 by Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (~1595-1638), diminutions by Girolamo Dalla Casa on Petit Jacquet after the chanson by jean Courtois for flute and lute, a Sonata Concertante by Dario Castello (1602-1631) from 1631, and two duos for flute and dulcian: Beaux yeux by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) and a two-part setting of Le Rossignol plaisant and gratieux by Didier le blanc.

Admission is by suggested donation (a free-will offering) of $20 or $25. Those 18 and under are free. All are welcome regardless of donation.

Complete San Juan/Orcas/Lopez performance schedule for “Concerti and Cantatas by Bach”:

San Juan Island: Wednesday evening, June 21 at 7 p.m. at Brickworks

Lopez Island: Saturday afternoon, June 24 at 1 p.m. at Grace Church

Orcas Island: Saturday evening, June 24 at 6 p.m. at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church