Baroque Music Festival: Monday, June 17 2024

Time Stands Still: English Lute Songs
Monday, June 17, 2024
7:30 pm
St. Michael & All Angels
Tickets: $45
(See our Sunday morning worship bulletin for a 20% off coupon code.)

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While Shakespeare was defining English poetry and drama, Dowland was doing the same for English song. After Dowland, the influence of the Italians led to the magnificent achievements of Henry Purcell, arguably the greatest English composer of all time. GRAMMY-winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs, soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah and violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, explore the golden age of English song through works by John Dowland, William Lawes, Henry Purcell and others—where time may indeed stand still.

• Edward Johnson (fl. 1572–1601): Eliza is the Fairest Queen; John Dowland (1563-1626): Welcome black night; Dowland: Time stands still
• Lute solos: Anon.: The Cobbler; Francis Cutting (c.1550–1595/6): Greensleeves; Dowland: Lord Willoughbie’s welcome home; Anon.: Watkin’s Ale
• Dowland: Sorrow, stay; Dowland: From silent night
• Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666): No more shall meads; William Lawes (1602-1645): To the Dewes; How lilies came white; To sycamores – I’m sick of love
• Henry Purcell: She loves, and she confesses; Let me weep
• -intermission-
• Nicola Matteis (c. 1650-after 1713): Suite for Guitar
• Purcell: The Fatal Hour; Bess of Bedlam
• Purcell: Suite from The Fairy Queen and King Arthur: Come if you dare, If love’s a sweet passion, Fairies Dance
• Mattheis: Aria Amorosa for violin and baroque guitar
• Trad.: Barbara Allen
• Arr. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Mary’s Dream & Scottish traditional airs

Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin

Stephen Stubbs’s appearance is sponsored by Larry W. Allen.

Followed by a complimentary wine & waters reception for all ticket holders, on the patio with the musicians.

Student Tickets
The Festival is offering students ages 12-29 rush tickets at $10 to all 2024 Festival concerts at the door (with valid student and photo ID, subject to space availability - Sherman Gardens concerts typically sell out in advance), plus exclusive free access to the June 15 concertos dress rehearsal and the June 22 choral program rehearsal where they may sit up close to the musicians and experience the baroque-specialist rehearsal process. To receive full details and register to attend the open dress rehearsals please email students@bmf-cdm.org or message the Festival on Facebook or Instagram @baroquemusicfestivalcdm.

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Painting featured above (detail): Caravaggio’s “Apollo the Lute Player” c. 1596. Ex-Badminton House, Gloucestershire, UK. Learn about the different versions of this painting, and their disputed attributions, here. View the full image here.