Sat, Sep 23
|Online Event
NAVRS September Playing Meeting with Rachel Begley
Please join us on September 23 for our playing meeting with our music director, Rachel Begley.
Time & Location
Sep 23, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Online Event
About the event
1623: A single year, a world of contrasts
Music by Byrd, Weelkes, Rosseter, and Schmelzer
Exactly four hundred years ago, England lost three important musicians - William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, and Philip Rosseter. Between them, their compositions are among the finest of England's Golden Age, and represent almost every compositional genre of the period. We will be playing a varied selection of less familiar pieces from these fine composers, including new arrangements especially for recorder consort, taken from the keyboard, solo lute, viol consort and lute song repertoire. 1623 may have marked the end of of life for these English masters, but it also marked the beginning of life for Johann Schmelzer, who was to become the finest Austrian composer of instrumental music of his generation. We will be playing his joyful “Sonata a 7 flauti”, composed specifically for seven recorders, in a version that includes recorders from soprano down to contrabass.
The Zoom link will be live, beginning at 1:30 PM, EDT (Central Time – 12:30, Mountain Time – 11:30, Pacific Time – 10:30). Please join us as we use the time to chat and do breakout rooms to get to know one another.