Concert Performance: The English Songbook (St Paul)

Name: Concert Performance: The English Songbook (St Paul)
Start: 2025-02-07T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-07T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Olivet Congregational Church

Schedule

Fri Feb 07 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Olivet Congregational Church | Saint Paul, MN

Experiencing Renaissance & Baroque England through song
Few musical genres are more synonymous with England that the songs written by Henry Purcell, John Blow, William Byrd, and John Dowland. These four composers created a cultural framework from which opera would later spring. In this program, we will explore England’s musical tradition
of the song (which began in England long before George Friderich Handel’s arrival to the island in 1712) with selections from some of England’s most famous composers.
Counter-tenor Michael Skarke will make his La Grande Bande debut alongside La Grande Bande regulars, mezzo-soprano Alyssa Anderson, cellist Maryne Mossey and harpsichordist Michael Thomas Asmus.
Pre-concert talk begins at approximately 6:45pm.
Musicians
Michael Skarke, counter-tenor
Alyssa Anderson, mezzo-soprano
Maryne Mossey, viola da gamba/baroque cello
Michael Thomas Asmus, harpsichord