
Musick’s Recreation: 17th-century English Music for lute and viol.
Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, Baroque lute &
Baroque guitar) perform music enjoyed in English homes during the time of Oliver Cromwell,
including works by Locke, Simpson, Jenkins, Matteis, Finger and others.
L’Offrandre (The Offering): Commemorating Blancrocher’s Life and Music.
Instrumental suites by Dufault, Denis Gaultier, Froberger and Louis Couperin, composed in honor
of 17th-century French nobleman-lutenist Blancrocher, and performed by Hendrik Broekman,
harpsichord, and Olav Chris Henriksen, Baroque lute.

The King of Denmark’s Health: Renaissance Music from the Court of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway. El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & cittern) performs English and Scandinavian fantasies and dances by Dowland, Borchgrevinck, Brade, Schop, Thomas Simpson, Ørn, and others.
Cantatas, Sonatas & Moral Tales: Songs and Instrumental Music from 18th-century Germany.
A Valentine’s Day concert, featuring elegant, humorous, amorous and moralistic music from the age of enlightenment, performed by Heart’s Ease (Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Olav Chris Henriksen, Baroque lute & Baroque guitar; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba) and including works by Telemann, Handel, Weiss, Beyer, Baron & C.P.E. Bach.
Grand Ballet de Cour: Renaissance Music from the Court of Louis XIII.
Pamela Dellal, soprano, and El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas,
Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba;
Olav Chris Henriksen, lute), perform festive music from the era of the
Three Musketeers, with works by Moulinié, Boesset, Mesangeau, Guédron & du Caurroy.
All concerts take place at the Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road (at Central St.), Somerville, MA, and begin at 3:00 p.m. For further information, call (617) 666-9810. Admission is $17 for the general public, $12 for students, seniors and Museum members.
The Somerville Museum is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council and by generous contributions from the membership of the Somerville
Museum
"From Lewis the gamba has a quick-speaking, prismatic, sweet-sounding sound, one
that is never gritty or strained; there’s a lovely continuum of emphasis and nuance...
The contributions of Olav Chris Henriksen on the theorbo – that souped-up version of the
lute – were musically first-class as well."
The Boston Globe
"Henriksen shone in Alessandro Piccinini’s delightful Toccata III-Cromatica, which provided yet
more beautiful, easeful and effortless sound."
Boston Early Music News
"Duo Maresienne lavished great skill and enthusiasm... a wealth of prismatic, keenly-phrased playing of instruments once thought to be worthy, historic and dull."
The Boston Globe
"For her part, the gambist Carol Lewis offered us a brilliant demonstration of her instrument. Her technique and her musicality, her breathtaking dexterity transported us, in Marin Marais’ Grand Ballet, to a distant time, where music was not noise but elegance and discretion...The [theorbo’s]
subtle sonority, its nuances full of finesse found in Henriksen an ideal interpreter."
Centre Presse, Poitiers, France