Mark Cudek, Artistic Director
Gail Bowler, Managing Director
Presented Since 1967 By The Festival Music Society
Gail Bowler, Managing Director
Presented Since 1967 By The Festival Music Society
Free Family Summer Concert
The Indianapolis Early Music Festival, presented by the Festival Music Society, and recognized as America’s longest continually running early music festival, will for the first time have a summer concert specifically for families. This will be a free event taking place at the History Center in the Basile Auditorium at 10:30 on July 12.
The concert of early music will be performed by the renowned Baltimore Consort and is called “Come my children, dere, draw near me”. So what is “early music”? It would be the music known as Baroque and Renaissance music that flourished in Europe from 1600 to around 1750. It is flamboyant in style and richly ornamented. Some of the composers of the period whose names are familiar to us as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Corelli, Couperin, Pachebel, Scarlatti, Telemann and Vivaldi. The instruments to be used by members of the Baltimore Consort are viols, rebecs, citterns, crumhorns, bass viols, and lutes. Have you ever thought while listening to early music, that the instruments are made of spruce, maple, boxwood, rosewood, snakewood, sheep’s gut, horses tail, crow’s quill, elephant’s tusk, ram’s horn and according to legend, the shell of a tortoise? The once-living remnants of plants, birds, and animals are transformed into musical instruments and need only the human breath or touch to bring them to life.
Other concerts of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, to which families are welcome, are June 27 and 29 performed by The King’s Noyse in two different programs. One is Le Jardin de Melodies: Songs and Dances of 16th Century Paris, and the June 29 program is A Royal Delight: 17th Century English Ballads and Dances. On July 11 The Baltimore Consort, will play a concert Adew Dundee, Early Music of Scotland. On July 13 Zephyrus will have a program called Soiree Musicale: Music from Paris and Versailles. On Saturday, July 26 Red Priest will perform Pirates of the Baroque the Second Voyage and on Sunday July 27 Johann I’m Only Dancing. These are all performed at 7:30 with a pre-concert chat beginning at 7:00. At this time the Artistic Director and performers share information on the music, the period, the instruments and the composers. Children’s tickets are $12 and adults are $22. Each evening concert is followed by a reception giving audience members an opportunity to chat with performers.
For information call 317 577-9731.
The free family concert will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 12.
The Indianapolis Early Music Festival, presented by the Festival Music Society, and recognized as America’s longest continually running early music festival, will for the first time have a summer concert specifically for families. This will be a free event taking place at the History Center in the Basile Auditorium at 10:30 on July 12.
The concert of early music will be performed by the renowned Baltimore Consort and is called “Come my children, dere, draw near me”. So what is “early music”? It would be the music known as Baroque and Renaissance music that flourished in Europe from 1600 to around 1750. It is flamboyant in style and richly ornamented. Some of the composers of the period whose names are familiar to us as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Corelli, Couperin, Pachebel, Scarlatti, Telemann and Vivaldi. The instruments to be used by members of the Baltimore Consort are viols, rebecs, citterns, crumhorns, bass viols, and lutes. Have you ever thought while listening to early music, that the instruments are made of spruce, maple, boxwood, rosewood, snakewood, sheep’s gut, horses tail, crow’s quill, elephant’s tusk, ram’s horn and according to legend, the shell of a tortoise? The once-living remnants of plants, birds, and animals are transformed into musical instruments and need only the human breath or touch to bring them to life.
Other concerts of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, to which families are welcome, are June 27 and 29 performed by The King’s Noyse in two different programs. One is Le Jardin de Melodies: Songs and Dances of 16th Century Paris, and the June 29 program is A Royal Delight: 17th Century English Ballads and Dances. On July 11 The Baltimore Consort, will play a concert Adew Dundee, Early Music of Scotland. On July 13 Zephyrus will have a program called Soiree Musicale: Music from Paris and Versailles. On Saturday, July 26 Red Priest will perform Pirates of the Baroque the Second Voyage and on Sunday July 27 Johann I’m Only Dancing. These are all performed at 7:30 with a pre-concert chat beginning at 7:00. At this time the Artistic Director and performers share information on the music, the period, the instruments and the composers. Children’s tickets are $12 and adults are $22. Each evening concert is followed by a reception giving audience members an opportunity to chat with performers.
For information call 317 577-9731.
The free family concert will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 12.