Duo Maresienne & Special Guests
Early Music Afternoons 2012-2013 Season
I. Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Flights of Melody
Olav Chris Henriksen (parlor guitar & Hawaiian guitar) and Jamie Dunphy (parlor guitar) play American guitar duos 1890-1940, through ragtime and blues to jazz & Hawaiian music
II. Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Of Trolls and Men
Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, Baroque guitar & English guitar) play music from 18th century Norway, with folk songs, dances, sonatas & suites by Schenck, Storm, Diesel & others.
III. Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
Music Divine
Countertenor and cornettist Michael Collver joins joins El Dorado Ensemble (viols, lute, cittern) in a celebration of English renaissance music by Ward, Cutting, Weelkes, Tomkins, Gibbons, & others
IV. Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
La Stravaganza: Musical Brilliance in Late Renaissance Italy
Recorder virtuoso John Tyson joins El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & theorbo), for a concert showcasing the dazzling art of embellishment in Italian renaissance music, with canzonas, madrigals, fantasias and court dances (and a twist of commedia dell'arte) by Bassano, Dalla Casa, Rognoni, Terzi, Kapsberger and others.
Left to right: Carol Lewis,
Paul Johnson,
Alice Mroszczyk,
Olav Chris Henriksen,
Mai-Lan Broekman,
Janet Haas,
John Tyson
Concert at the Somerville Museum April 14 2013.
V. Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
Concerts Royaux
Lisa Brooke, violin, joins Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo & Baroque guitar) in playing sonatas, suites and character pieces from the French baroque, with music by Marais, Couperin, Senaillée, & de Visée
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 617-666-8910. Admission is $19 for the general public, $14 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.