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SEP
16
2022
Friday, September 16 @ 7:30pm
Viol Vignettes: Music of Forgotten Viol Players (Lyracle)
United First Parish Church, 1306 Hancock St, Quincy, MA 02169

"Viol Vignettes: Music of Forgotten Viol Players" tells the stories of viol players and singers whose musical experiences aren't typically the focus of modern-day concert programs.

Tickets: General Admission, $15; Seniors, Students, Children, $10
Masks Required

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In this program, you'll meet:
  • Ann Ford (1737-1824), a London socialite who started her own concert series to support herself after fleeing from her father and an unwanted suitor.
  • Dudley Ryder (1691-1756), a law student in London, whose 1715-1716 diary invites us to celebrate the centuries-old joy of making music just for the fun of it.
  • Mancio Ito, Miguel Chijiwa, Martino Hara, Juliano Nakaura, and other students at Jesuit schools in Japan (c. 1560-1613) who became accomplished viol players and singers.

Get to know these viol players through music that we know they played or that they likely knew, including works by old favorites like Handel and Lully and could-be-new-favorites like John Weldon and Damião de Goís.

Actor Danielle Boivin will help give voice to these forgotten musicians with short dramatic readings by them or their contemporaries.

Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano; James Perretta, viol; Arnie Tanimoto, viol

SEP
17
2022
Saturday, September 17 @ 7:30pm
Viol Vignettes: Music of Forgotten Viol Players (Lyracle)
Chase Young Gallery 450 Harrison Ave, Boston

"Viol Vignettes: Music of Forgotten Viol Players" tells the stories of viol players and singers whose musical experiences aren't typically the focus of modern-day concert programs.

Tickets: $25
Masks Required

Read More

In this program, you'll meet:
  • Ann Ford (1737-1824), a London socialite who started her own concert series to support herself after fleeing from her father and an unwanted suitor.
  • Dudley Ryder (1691-1756), a law student in London, whose 1715-1716 diary invites us to celebrate the centuries-old joy of making music just for the fun of it.
  • Mancio Ito, Miguel Chijiwa, Martino Hara, Juliano Nakaura, and other students at Jesuit schools in Japan (c. 1560-1613) who became accomplished viol players and singers.

Get to know these viol players through music that we know they played or that they likely knew, including works by old favorites like Handel and Lully and could-be-new-favorites like John Weldon and Damião de Goís.

Actor Danielle Boivin will help give voice to these forgotten musicians with short dramatic readings by them or their contemporaries.

Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano; James Perretta, viol; Arnie Tanimoto, viol

AUG
12
2022
Friday, August 12 @ 8pm
Silk Road Global Musicians Workshop: Participant Concert
Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115
Silkroad's Global Musician Workshop (GMW) presents varied concerts featuring GMW faculty and participants alike! These concerts will feature newly created arrangements by the participants and faculty artists, blending together musics from India, Japan, the United States, China, Lebanon, and more.
AUG
11
2022
Thursday, August 11 @ 8pm
Silk Road Global Musicians Workshop: Participant Concert
Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115
Silkroad's Global Musician Workshop (GMW) presents varied concerts featuring GMW faculty and participants alike! These concerts will feature newly created arrangements by the participants and faculty artists, blending together musics from India, Japan, the United States, China, Lebanon, and more.
JUN
10
2022
Friday, June 10 @ 7:30pm
So Trinken Wir Alle
Celebrate spring with joyous works for voices and viols by Lassus, Senfl, Marenzio and others on themes of love, nature, dancing, and drinking, and feasting. Supported by the Gian Lyman Silbiger grant from the Viola da Gamba Society - New England.
MAY
17
2022
Tuesday, May 17 @ 12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Tuesday Recitals at King's Chapel
King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108
Join me in exploring the versatility of the viol at the first performance of my new solo set featuring early music, Jazz, and video game music side by side.

Suggested donation: $5
Please visit http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html for more information and COVID protocols.
APR
9
2022
Saturday, April 9 @ 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Lyracle with Barbara Lambert
Colonial Society of Massachusetts 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
Lyracle joins historian Barbara Lambert, editor of Music in Colonial Massachusetts, to explore at-home music making on the viol in 17th and early 18th century America. An introduction by Barbara Lambert will precede this special version of our program "'Musick's Recreation:' At-home Viol-Playing in 17th and 18th century Massachusetts." In this program, we focus on a few documented viol owners in colonial Massachusetts as well as viol players who were left out of historical records, connecting what we can infer about their varied musical experiences to repertoire for solo viol and for voice with bass viol accompaniment. Drawing from sheet music sold commercially by England's favorite publisher, John Playford, this program illustrates connections between facets of English and early American musical culture. Discover the lively sounds of early American homes featuring everything from bawdy drinking songs to music for the English court.