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Tuesday, July 5

Restless Hexachords
​Arcadia Viols: 
Robert Eisenstein, bass viol; Jane Hershey, tenor & treble viols; Douglas Kelley, bass viol; Anne Legêne, tenor viol; Alice Robbins, alto & treble viols; Hideki Yamaya, lute & theorbo
Arcadia Viols presents a thought-provoking tour of English, German and contemporary American music for viol consort and lute. The program opens with selections from John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, followed by the solo lute version of the first piece of the collection, the famous Flow my teares. The ensemble offers a wonderful fantasy on the Lachrimae composed for Arcadia Viols by Will Ayton. English pieces based on the hexachord lead to the world premiere of Larry Wallach’s Restless Hexachords for five viols. German music concludes the tour with a suite of dances, Froberger’s fantasia on the hexachord, and the appealing Canzona Bergamasca by Samuel Scheidt. 
8pm - St. Anne's in the Fields, 147 Concord Rd. Lincoln, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Wednesday, July 6

Restless Hexachords
​Arcadia Viols: 
Robert Eisenstein, bass viol; Jane Hershey, tenor & treble viols; Douglas Kelley, bass viol; Anne Legêne, tenor viol; Alice Robbins, alto & treble viols; Hideki Yamaya, lute & theorbo
Arcadia Viols presents a thought-provoking tour of English, German and contemporary American music for viol consort and lute. The program opens with selections from John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, followed by the solo lute version of the first piece of the collection, the famous Flow my teares. The ensemble offers a wonderful fantasy on the Lachrimae composed for Arcadia Viols by Will Ayton. English pieces based on the hexachord lead to the world premiere of Larry Wallach’s Restless Hexachords for five viols. German music, concludes the tour with a suite of dances, Froberger’s fantasia on the hexachord, and the appealing Canzona Bergamasca by Samuel Scheidt. 
8pm - The Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell St. Andover, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Thursday, July 7

Restless Hexachords
​Arcadia Viols: 
Robert Eisenstein, bass viol; Jane Hershey, tenor & treble viols; Douglas Kelley, bass viol; Anne Legêne, tenor viol; Alice Robbins, alto & treble viols; Hideki Yamaya, lute & theorbo
Arcadia Viols presents a thought-provoking tour of English, German and contemporary American music for viol consort and lute. The program opens with selections from John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, followed by the solo lute version of the first piece of the collection, the famous Flow my teares. The ensemble offers a wonderful fantasy on the Lachrimae composed for Arcadia Viols by Will Ayton. English pieces based on the hexachord lead to the world premiere of Larry Wallach’s Restless Hexachords for five viols. German music concludes the tour with a suite of dances, Froberger’s fantasia on the hexachord, and the appealing Canzona Bergamasca by Samuel Scheidt. 
8pm - Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. Boston, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Tuesday, July 12

Music of Resilience and Rebirth in the Judeo-Baroque
MIRYAM & Les Enfants d’Orphée: 
Alicia DePaolo, Elise Groves, sopranos; Corey Hart, tenor; Ian Pomerantz, bass; Na’ama Lion, flute; Emily Hale, violin; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
MIRYAM Baroque Ensemble joins Les Enfants d'Orphée for a celebration of Jewish baroque music in 17th century Europe, from the synagogues of Carpentras and Bordeaux to the cosmopolitan Portuguese Esnoga of Amsterdam, and from the Jewish Scuola of Mantua to the King’s Chapel in Paris. These communities united members of different Jewish traditions, including Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Italki, and Judeo-Contadin, who were also deeply immersed in their secular cultures around them. Their music demonstrates how these composers negotiated their place in their surrounding culture while also expressing their identity as Jews, both reveling in the vibrancy of Jewish life and nodding to darker stories of persecution, exclusion, and expulsion. These rarely-heard works offer stories of communal resilience and rebirth that remain relevant today. 
8pm - St. Anne's in the Fields, 147 Concord Rd. Lincoln, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Wednesday, July 13

Music of Resilience and Rebirth in the Judeo-Baroque
MIRYAM & Les Enfants d’Orphée: 
Alicia DePaolo, Elise Groves, sopranos; Corey Hart, tenor; Ian Pomerantz, bass; Na’ama Lion, flute; Emily Hale, violin; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
MIRYAM Baroque Ensemble joins Les Enfants d'Orphée for a celebration of Jewish baroque music in 17th century Europe, from the synagogues of Carpentras and Bordeaux to the cosmopolitan Portuguese Esnoga of Amsterdam, and from the Jewish Scuola of Mantua to the King’s Chapel in Paris. These communities united members of different Jewish traditions, including Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Italki, and Judeo-Contadin, who were also deeply immersed in their secular cultures around them. Their music demonstrates how these composers negotiated their place in their surrounding culture while also expressing their identity as Jews, both reveling in the vibrancy of Jewish life and nodding to darker stories of persecution, exclusion, and expulsion. These rarely-heard works offer stories of communal resilience and rebirth that remain relevant today. ​
8pm - The Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell St. Andover, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Thursday, July 14

Music of Resilience and Rebirth in the Judeo-Baroque
MIRYAM & Les Enfants d’Orphée: 
Alicia DePaolo, Elise Groves, sopranos; Corey Hart, tenor; Ian Pomerantz, bass; Na’ama Lion, flute; Emily Hale, violin; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Nathaniel Cox, theorbo
MIRYAM Baroque Ensemble joins Les Enfants d'Orphée for a celebration of Jewish baroque music in 17th century Europe, from the synagogues of Carpentras and Bordeaux to the cosmopolitan Portuguese Esnoga of Amsterdam, and from the Jewish Scuola of Mantua to the King’s Chapel in Paris. These communities united members of different Jewish traditions, including Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Italki, and Judeo-Contadin, who were also deeply immersed in their secular cultures around them. Their music demonstrates how these composers negotiated their place in their surrounding culture while also expressing their identity as Jews, both reveling in the vibrancy of Jewish life and nodding to darker stories of persecution, exclusion, and expulsion. These rarely-heard works offer stories of communal resilience and rebirth that remain relevant today. 
8pm - Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. Boston, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Tuesday, July 19

The Lonesome Touch: Solo Bach and the Music of East Clare
Julia Connor, violin
"The lonesome touch" is a common moniker for the East Clare Irish music tradition, which is considered the oldest surviving regional folk music style in Ireland. Characterized by slower tempi, prevalence of minor keys and modes, and sparse ornamentation, this music has been passed down aurally for hundreds of years. This program for solo violin brings together traditional dance tunes from East Clare and J.S. Bach's d minor partita, interspersing sets of Clare tunes between movements of Bach. Juxtaposing the dance sets with the dance-inspired movements of Bach casts each in a new light, highlighting the dance origins of the Bach while inviting audiences to consider the artistry, nuance, and deep understanding of tradition that go into a compelling fiddle performance.

8pm - St. Anne's in the Fields, 147 Concord Rd. Lincoln, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Wednesday, July 20

The Lonesome Touch: Solo Bach and the Music of East Clare
Julia Connor, violin
"The lonesome touch" is a common moniker for the East Clare Irish music tradition, which is considered the oldest surviving regional folk music style in Ireland. Characterized by slower tempi, prevalence of minor keys and modes, and sparse ornamentation, this music has been passed down aurally for hundreds of years. This program for solo violin brings together traditional dance tunes from East Clare and J.S. Bach's d minor partita, interspersing sets of Clare tunes between movements of Bach. Juxtaposing the dance sets with the dance-inspired movements of Bach casts each in a new light, highlighting the dance origins of the Bach while inviting audiences to consider the artistry, nuance, and deep understanding of tradition that go into a compelling fiddle performance.

8pm - The Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell St. Andover, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Thursday, July 21

The Lonesome Touch: Solo Bach and the Music of East Clare
Julia Connor, violin
"The lonesome touch" is a common moniker for the East Clare Irish music tradition, which is considered the oldest surviving regional folk music style in Ireland. Characterized by slower tempi, prevalence of minor keys and modes, and sparse ornamentation, this music has been passed down aurally for hundreds of years. This program for solo violin brings together traditional dance tunes from East Clare and J.S. Bach's d minor partita, interspersing sets of Clare tunes between movements of Bach. Juxtaposing the dance sets with the dance-inspired movements of Bach casts each in a new light, highlighting the dance origins of the Bach while inviting audiences to consider the artistry, nuance, and deep understanding of tradition that go into a compelling fiddle performance.

8pm - Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. Boston, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Tuesday, July 26

The Recorder Alone
Emily O'Brien, recorders
The recorder is traditionally primarily an ensemble instrument–-but what do you do with a wind instrument during an airborne pandemic? This program explores several ways that the recorder may play unaccompanied: music where the bass line is explicitly optional; ways that a single player may cover multiple lines; and original unaccompanied repertoire. In this program, virtuoso musician Emily O’Brien borrows from the stringed instrument works of Ortiz and Bach, the wind repertoire of Bassano and Boismortier, and she’ll present the premiere of a new work by Michael O'Brien for the solo recorder that commemorates our collective emergence from the pandemic.
8pm - St. Anne's in the Fields, 147 Concord Rd. Lincoln, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Wednesday, July 27

The Recorder Alone
Emily O'Brien, recorders
The recorder is traditionally primarily an ensemble instrument–-but what do you do with a wind instrument during an airborne pandemic? This program explores several ways that the recorder may play unaccompanied: music where the bass line is explicitly optional; ways that a single player may cover multiple lines; and original unaccompanied repertoire. In this program, virtuoso musician Emily O’Brien borrows from the stringed instrument works of Ortiz and Bach, the wind repertoire of Bassano and Boismortier, and she’ll present the premiere of a new work by Michael O'Brien for the solo recorder that commemorates our collective emergence from the pandemic.
8pm - The Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell St. Andover, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org

Thursday, July 28

The Recorder Alone
Emily O'Brien, recorders
The recorder is traditionally primarily an ensemble instrument–-but what do you do with a wind instrument during an airborne pandemic? This program explores several ways that the recorder may play unaccompanied: music where the bass line is explicitly optional; ways that a single player may cover multiple lines; and original unaccompanied repertoire. In this program, virtuoso musician Emily O’Brien borrows from the stringed instrument works of Ortiz and Bach, the wind repertoire of Bassano and Boismortier, and she’ll present the premiere of a new work by Michael O'Brien for the solo recorder that commemorates our collective emergence from the pandemic.
8pm - Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. Boston, MA
$25 General Admission / $20 Students & Seniors. Masks and proof of vaccination required. 
www.sohipboston.org
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