September 29, 2024 4:00 PM –8:00 PM
Chatham Baroque: A Garden of Harmony - Austrian & German Music for Strings
Chatham Baroque: A Garden of Harmony - Austrian & German Music for Strings Friday-Sunday, September 27-29, 2024 -Friday Sept 27, 7:30 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church -Saturday Sept 28, 7:30 p.m., Teutonia Männerchor -Sunday Sept 29, 4:00 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church The virtuosic compositions for string band from late 17th-century Austria and Germany sit squarely in Chatham Baroque’s programmatic wheelhouse. Written for a lush array of bowed string instruments, this music is rich with ingenious invention, counterpoint, and mellifluous harmony. Joined by some of our favorite string-playing guests, this program features rarely performed music of composers Heinrich Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Antonio Bertali, Johann Hermann Schein, Johann Casper Ferdinand Fischer, and Georg Muffat. Andrew Fouts violin Patricia Halverson viola da gamba Scott Pauley theorbo & baroque guitar With guest artists: Carmen Johnson-Pajaro violin Paul Miller viola Keats Dieffenbach voila Justin Wallace keyboard
