** Legrenzi Salish Sea Early Music Festival ~ Tacoma ~ **//*Baroque in Transition* — 1600 - 1700 — Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Mason United Methodist Church in Tacoma www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma// // // // *Wednesday, May 10**at 7:0**0 PM***** • Mason Church**** •/_please forward_/ **• Baroque in Transition: 1600-1700 •* ***Ingrid Matthews ~/baroque violin/ Elisabeth Wright ~ /baroque violin /*****Jeffrey Cohan */*~ /baroque flute/ ***** /**Giovanni Legrenzi (pictured above) and others will be featured in our final 2017 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performance, with Seattle Baroque Orchestra founder *Ingrid Matthews* on baroque violin, Indiana University-Bloomington professor *Elisabeth Wright* on harpsichord, and flutist *Jeffrey Cohan* playing both one-piece renaissance flute and the baroque one-keyed flute. The program highlights the evolving musical perspective and instruments in Italy and France during the 17th century. Perhaps for the first time in centuries works will be performed by a combination of instruments that was familiar when the music was written but has rarely been experienced since the flute underwent a drastic evolution late in the 17th century (as you will see) to suite the expressive expectations of the day. Although the Baroque period in music began around 1600 with innovative compositions in a new style, some instruments, notably the transverse flute, lagged behind in assuming their more modern form as influenced by the most forward-looking music of the day. This program provides an opportunity to hear the two flute types as they relate to evolving musical styles, which differed greatly in France and Italy as will be illustrated clearly! A program not to be missed. The program will include works from early 17th-century Italy by Giovanni *Legrenzi*, Marco *Uccellini*, Giovanni Battista *Buonamente*, Tarquinio *Merula* and Girolamo *Frescobaldi*, and from late-17th-century France and Italy by Louis *Couperin*, Jean-Baptiste *Lully* and Archangelo *Corelli*. ****/* */~ + ~ + ~/// /// *Mason United Methodist Church* · 2710 North Madison in Tacoma • suggested donation $15, $20 or $25 • 18 and under free • /*www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma*//* *//* */~ + ~ + ~/// ///