TEMPO Concert Series!
A new series of “occasional” concerts of early music—music of the baroque, early classical, renaissance, and medieval periods in Europe—will make its debut this Fall with a concert featuring the Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice, on Saturday, October 20th at 7:30 pm in First Presbyterian Church of Durham, 305 E. Main Street in downtown Durham. The program will include works for recorders and traverso, viola da gamba and harpsichord from Spain, Germany, Italy and France.
The second concert will be on Sunday, November 25th at 3:00 pm, also at First Presbyterian Church in Durham, and will feature music for baroque trumpets, organ and percussion, with The Clarino Consort, including works by Handel, Telemann, and Charpentier.
The two fall concerts are presented by TEMPO (Triangle Early Music Presenting Organization) in conjunction with First Presbyterian Church’s “Music on Main” concerts.
Admission for each of the first two concerts will be $16 general public, $10 students, cash or check only at the door. Advance reservations are not required.
Winter and spring concerts will include Aurora Baroque on February 17th at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Durham, and Music from the Salem Collegium on June 19, in cooperation with the Magnolia Baroque Festival (of Winston-Salem), at a Durham venue to be announced.
The TEMPO organization and series are founded by Kathy Silbiger, who recently retired as director of Duke Performances. Ms. Silbiger and members of the TEMPO advisory group believe that the Triangle has an audience for a professional-level early music series, such as exists in other similar metro areas, e.g., Seattle, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Indianapolis. TEMPO plans to partner with area churches and other small venues that are acoustically appropriate for chamber music performed on period instruments.
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TEMPO Concert details and calendar listing follows. Programs subject to change.
Saturday, October 21, 7:30 pm.
ENSEMBLE CAPRICE, “Extravaganza”—Baroque Music from Spain, Germany, Italy and France performed by Matthias Maute, recorders/traverso; Susie Napper, viola da gamba; and Dongsok Shin, harpsichord. First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main Street, Durham. $16 general admission, $10 students. Payment by check/cash at the door.
Sunday, November 25, 3:00 pm
THE CLARINO CONSORT-- “A Grand Topur”—Regal Music from the Courts and Chapels of Europe performed by Barry Bauguess, Patrick Doughtery and Julie Willis, baroque trumpets; John O’Brien, baroque organ; Lance Pedigo, baroque timpani.
First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main Street, Durham.
$16 general admission, $10 students.
Payment by check/cash at the door.
www.clarinoconsort.org.
Sunday, February 17, 4:00 pm
AURORA BAROQUE – Seventeenth-Century music for strings and continuo performed by David Wilson, baroque violin; Barbara Krumdieck, baroque cello; Robbie Link, viola da gamba, and Henry Lebedinski, harpsichord. St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 82 Kimberly Drive, Durham. $16 general admission, $10 students and seniors. Payment by check/cash at the door.
Thursday, June 19, 7:30 pm
MUSIC FROM THE SALEM COLLEGIUM -- Chamber music from the archives of the Salem Collegium manuscripts of baroque and early classical composers, performed by a six-member ensemble on strings and keyboard. Venue to be determined. $16 general admission, $10 students. Payment by check/cash at the door.
TEMPO. . . it’s about time.
