November 22, 2008

Pre-concert talk at 7:30 pm; Concert at 8:00 pm

Unitarian Church of Princeton

 

Music for Colonists, Patriots, and Presidents

Part of the Princeton 1783 Celebration

 

Clara Rottsolk, soprano

Daniela Pierson & Christof Richter, baroque violins

John Burkhalter, recorder

Donna Fournier, viola da gamba

Janet Palumbo, harpsichord

 

Part of the Princeton 1783 celebration, this concert features chamber music enjoyed by colonial Americans, the patriots who founded the United States, and the earliest presidents who governed the new nation.  Thomas Jefferson kept an impressive music library that included American, British, and European music.  Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument (the glass harmonica) and kept a harpsichord in his house.  The program will include some of Jefferson’s and Franklin’s favorite pieces of chamber music, as well as songs from popular musical theatre productions enjoyed throughout the colonies.  A pre-concert talk by John Burkhalter will explore the relationship America’s founders had with music. 

 

Music by Handel, Corelli, Boyce, Arne, and others, including:

·  Handel’s “Oh had I Jubal’s Lyre” from Joshua and his Air from the Water Music

·  Trio sonatas by William Boyce and Dr. Thomas Arne

·  Arcangelo Corelli’s Violin Sonata op. 5, no. 1

·  Songs from 18^th century popular musical theater

 

PROGRAM:

Arcangelo Corelli               Violin Sonata in D Major, op. 5, no. 1

William Boyce                      Trio Sonata no. 3 in A major

Dr. Thomas Arne                Trio Sonata in B minor, op. 3, no. 6

                                                 “The lovesick invocation”

                                                          from Lyric Harmony

George Frederic Handel     “Oh had I Jubal’s lyre” from  Joshua

                                                   Air from the Water Music

                                                    Songs and Airs from:

                                                           Love in a Village,

                                                           Polly, Rosina,

                                                           The Pirates, and

                                                           The Siege of Belgrade