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Saturday,
October 20, 2007
at 7:30 p.m.
One performance
only! |
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Caswell
Library, Deerfield
Academy,
Old Main Street, Deerfield MA
Directions (on
the
academy's website)
Interactive map
(on the academy's website)
Please
note: the Caswell Library is in the Academy Building (#1 on the map),
adjacent to the Brick
Church Meetinghouse; it is NOT in the
Boyden Library building
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Advance tickets: $20 general
admission,
$30 preferred seating, $10 students.
Door price: $25 general, $35
preferred,
$10 student.
413-534-8888 Ticket info and order form
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Supported in part by
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Kivie
Cahn-Lipman
(center) and Alice Robbins (right) will appear with the other members
of the
Five College Consort of Viols in a program of Baroque chamber
music
presented by Arcadia Players on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 7:30 PM
at
Caswell Library, Deerfield Academy.
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Arcadia Players Presents Five College
Consort of
Viols in Fugues and Fantazias
Arcadia
Players presents the Five College Consort of Viols
in a program of Baroque chamber music on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at
7:30 PM
at Caswell Library, Deerfield Academy. The Five College Consort—Robert
Eisenstein, Alice Robbins, Meg Pash and Kivie Cahn-Lipman—will perform
some of
Henry Purcell’s Fantazias of 1683, a
suite by the French baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, an
“Ouverture”
by Georg Muffat, and selected Contrapuncti from J.S.
Bach’s The Art of Fugue.
The four
members of the Five College Consort, in addition to teaching at area
colleges,
also pursue active performing careers. Robert Eisenstein, Director of
the Five
College Early Music Program, is a founding member and co-artistic
director of
the Folger Consort in Washington, D.C., and has performed with many
other
renowned ensembles. Alice Robbins, a member of the Five College Early
Music
Program faculty, teaches viola da gamba at Smith and Mount Holyoke
Colleges.
She performs widely on viola da gamba and baroque cello with ensembles
including Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival and
Washington Bach Consort. Meg Pash, a founding member of Boston
Renaissance
Ensemble, performs as a singer, lutenist, and gambist and teaches in
the Five
College Early Music Program. Kivie Cahn-Lipman, besides performing on
viola da
gamba, has premiered and recorded many contemporary works for cello. He
is a
member of the Smith and Mount Holyoke College music faculties.
The consort
of viols is the 17th-century counterpart of today’s string quartet,
with each
musician playing a different-sized member of the viol family. These
closely-knit and sonorous chamber ensembles played everything from
fugues to
dance tunes, as may be heard in the October 20 concert.
Arcadia
Players builds on its triumphant 19th season opening concert on
September 16,
of which music critic Clifton Noble wrote, “The Vivaldi ‘Gloria’ never
sounded
better. There is no other performing entity in the area that can rival
Arcadia
Players under Ian Watson’s direction for excellence in Baroque
performance.”
Walter
Denny will give a pre-concert talk about the program, and the consort
of viols,
at 7:00 PM. Sponsor for Arcadia’s 2007–2008 season is WGBY. This
concert is supported
in part by Deerfield Academy.
Tickets to the ensemble’s October
20 concert may be ordered in advance at 413-534-8888: $20 general
admission,
$30 preferred seating, $10 students. Door price is $25 general, $35
preferred,
$10 student. Season subscriptions for four or five concerts plus bonus
concert
are available in advance or at the door at considerable savings, For information call 534-8888 or
www.arcadiaplayers.org.
Since 1989, Arcadia Players has
assembled the region’s
finest professional instrumentalists and singers in performances
throughout the
Massachusetts Pioneer Valley. Arcadia
Players draws from the broad Baroque repertoire to present concerts
ranging
from large-scale orchestral works to intimate chamber music. In
pursuing its
goal of sharing the riches and authentic spirit of the Baroque era,
Arcadia
Players has been recognized as the finest Baroque ensemble in the
Pioneer
Valley.
