Music Collision: Art Meets Folk, 1614
&
Family Concerts
Ballads & Other Musical Tall Tales
Performances March 14-16, 2014
Featuring:
Madeline Apple Healey, soprano
Augusta McKay Lodge, violin
Cynthia Black, violin & viola
David Ellis, cello & viola da gamba
Four of AF’s outstanding Young Artist Apprentices take the stage in AF’s first-ever set of Young Artist Concerts. The 90-min program of chamber music is titled Music Collision: Art Meets Folk, 1614. The musicians explore the “collision” that took place in the early 17th century between serious art music and popular folk tunes. In this period, great composers such as Monteverdi, Buxtehude and Byrd wrote variations on the popular “blues” patterns of the late Renaissance. The program will also feature two
Elizabethan ballads performed by Madeline Apple Healey. True to AF’s interactive experience, the audience is invited for coffee and conversations with these young artists following the program.
As an added bonus, this troupe of four artists will also perform two concerts in AF’s popular Family Concert format. Ballads & Other Musical Tall Tales is a 45-minute interactive program for the young and young-at-heart, ages 6-96. It explores storytelling through music, and presents the opportunity to mingle with the artists and talk about their instruments.
The themes for both programs were conceived by Music Director Jeannette Sorrell, who has been working with the four young artists to choose repertoire that breaks down the “modern” barrier between art music and popular music. Sorrell explains that there was not such a wall between these two genres in the baroque period as there is today. As the Plain Dealer writes, “Sorrell proves that scholarship and fun aren’t mutually exclusive.”