Arcadia Players - New England's Period Instrument Ensemble
Arcadia Players embraces
historical performance practice to illuminate and invigorate the great Western heritage of vocal and instrumental music. |
Arcadia Viols
2016-17 concerts Members: Alice Robbins, Jane Hershey, Robert Eisenstein, Douglas Kelley, Anne Legêne, Loren Ludwig ‘Arcadia Viols,’ a consort of viols, has been associated with Arcadia Players of Western Massachusetts since its founding in 2009. The ensemble has performed around New England, mostly in private venues; in 2011, the consort performed at the BEMF Fringe Festival. Its members are active performers in other ensembles as well, performing Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music with groups such as the Folger Consort, the Carthage Consort, Washington Bach Consort and many others. As well as being active free-lancers, Arcadia Viols members are also teachers and are variously on the faculties of the Five Colleges of Western Mass, Tufts University, and the Longy School of Music. Opening Concert of the
Summit House Summer Concert Series, Friends of the Mount Holyoke Range Thursday, July 7, 2016, 7:30 pm Summit House, Skinner State Park Hadley, MA 'Viols on the Edge'
Tufts University Sunday Concert Series Sunday, October 30, 2016, 3:00 pm Distler Hall, Granoff Music Center 20 Talbot Ave., Medford MA Admission free Extraordinary works from the 17th and 21st centuries, all inspired by the intimate, inventive and sonorous world of the viol consort. Striking juxtapositions of ricercare, fantasias and dances by Jacopo Peri and David Loeb, Henry Purcell and Etienne Moulinie, Larry Wallach and Matthew Locke, Alfonso Ferrabosco II and Brook Green. Jane Hershey, treble; Alice Robbins, tenor; Anne Legene, tenor and bass; Bob Eisenstein, bass For more information about parking, etc visit: http://as.tufts.edu/music/musiccenter 617-627-3679 |
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