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22^32^^ THE rn anapo usic estiva 21[) 1 presented si 967 by Indianapolis Early O; W////////////////A V//////////////M^^^ 55M^ t^^r'' JUNE 23-JULY 16, -< V EUGENE AND MARlC GLICK INDIANA HISTO 450 W. OHIO STRE 4APOLIS,IN 4620 DOWNTOWN WESTCARMEL/ZIONSVILLE 107 North Pennsylvania Street 106th and North Michigan Road NORTHWEST WESTCLAY' Ditch Road and 84th Street Towne Road near 1 list Street THE ON FAME RICA TOWER CARM EL One American Square East Carmel MERIDIANKESSLER WESTFIELD/CARMEL 49th and Pennsylvania Street East 146th Street at Cool Creek Commons CHAMBER OE COMMERCE G FIST/FISHERS 320 North Meridian Street Olio Road at 1 16th Street CASTLETON GREENWOOD Bash Road and East 82nd Street West Smith Valley Road and SR 135 THE NATIONAL X BANMNDIANAPOLIS 261-9000 THE 2017 Indianapolis Early Music Festival Presented since 1967 by Indianapolis Early Music 3646 BAY ROAD SOUTH DRIVE, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46240 (317) 577-9731 II [email protected] // WWW.EMINDY.ORG Board of Directors Leslie Bartolowits FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 7:30 PM Ingrid Bellman Hesperus plays a live sound track for the 1921 classic Suzanne B. Blakeman The Three Musketeers Roberr Bolyard Charlotte Elizabeth Brayton SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 11:00 AM Stephen S. Brockmann The Peabody Consort Dr. David H. Chandler FREE Family Concert. Laura Goetz Rusty Jones SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 4:00 PM Andrew Kerr The Peabody Consort with the Echoing Air Vocal Ensemble Marcia Krieg "A Vanished World: Words and Music of Three Faiths" 1' Christine Kyprianides FRIDAY, JULY 7, 7:30 PM G.B. Landrigan Kim Linton Michael Slattery and La Nef Ellen Patterson "The People's Purcell" li Susan N. Pratt SUNDAY, JULY 9,4:00 PM Lolly Ramey Matthias Maute and REBEL Stanley Ritchie Janice Roger "Telemann alia Polacca" 2,4 Margo M. Scheuring FRIDAY, JULY 14, 7:30 PM The Rev. Robert A. Schilling Infusion Baroque Fred E. Schlegel "An Italian Voyage" 3^ Sylvia Patterson Scott Mary Ann Shields SUNDAY, JULY 16, 4:00 PM fvlichael Toulouse Piffaro and the Rose Ensemble Singers Harriet A. Wilkins "The Musical World of Don Quixote" 3'< Judy Wilson Ken E. Winslow Donna Worth Advisory Board Pre-Concert Chats with Artistic Director Mark Cudek Frank Cooper and performers sharing information on the music, Joan Leibman the period, the instruments, and the composers will J. David Litsey, DPM Lucina Moxley be offered one-half hour before concert time. Dorit Paul And, of course, our Post-Concert Receptions continue! Neal Rothman Rosalind Wilgus jj^^g INDIANAPOLIS EARLY MUSIC // WWW.IEMuSJC.Orq Greetings! v///////x^/y////////// Welcome to the 51st annual Indianapolis Early Music Festival and to the Frank and Katrina Basile Theater at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center! We are America's oldest continually running early music concert series, and I am especially proud to be at the artistic helm of this prestigious festival as we embark on our second half-century. It's been quite a year for me. The Baltimore Consort is still immersed in the Shakespeare 400th, and we've had one of our busiest touring seasons ever. Highlights were the Seattle Early Music Guild and the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Events at the Peabody Conservatory have also ramped up and this fall we will be welcoming our largest class of early music majors ever! Speaking of education, Indianapolis Early Music continues its commitment to bringing early music to young audiences. This year our Education Outreach Committee has brought performances by Tomas Lozano with the hurdy-gurdy, and Daily Bread and Butter with hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, and a button accordion, much to the delight of the students at Park Tudor and The International School. This summer we continue our policy of free admission for students, who should call IEM at 317-577-9731 and reserve seats in advance. The Peabody Consort will perform the Festival's TENTH!!! annual Free Family Concert. Generous underwriting from the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation in honor of the children and families of Christel House has once again made it possible for us to offer this free program as a gift to the community. I'm thrilled to report that we will be offering TWO free family concerts in 2018. Our first weekend opens with Hesperus and Douglas Fairbanks returning for another one of Tina Chancey's brilliant sound tracks for silent film. Hesperus will accompany The Three Musketeers with courtly and popular music from the French renaissance. I'm thrilled to be on stage with some former students for the Peabody Consort's presentation of "A Vanished World: Words and Music of Three Faiths." This program hearkens back to the brief "Golden Age" of Alfonso X, when Muslim and Jewish scholars, inventors, and musicians were welcome at the Christian king's court. We're delighted to be joined by the ten singers from Steven Rickards's ensemble Echoing Air as well as by guest artist Israeli "recorder virtuoso" {New York Times) Daphna Mor. Medieval Spanish readings from the three faiths will be provided by members of the Indianapolis community. Our second weekend will feature a couple of old friends! Michael Slattery dazzled us in 2013 with "Dowland in Dublin," and he returns with La Nef for a new and interesting look at that other great early English composer, Henry Purcell. Although Matthias Maute is likely our most familiar face, this is his first appearance with REBEL since 2011. This exciting ensemble has made many recordings of Telemann and returns to us to commemorate the 250th anniversary of this important composer's death. jggggg THE 2017 INDIANAPOLIS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Our final weekend opens with the young musicians of Montreal's Infusion Baroque— winners of Early Music America's 2014 Baroque Competition. The ensemble will feature recorder and baroque flute virtuoso Alexa Raine-Wright, the winner of last summer's Indianapolis International Baroque Competition! It's always fun to look ahead to next summer's programs. We'll have a rousing opener with Ronn McFarlane's Ayreheart playing music of the British Isles. Ronn, himself a Grammy-nominated lutenist, will return with legendary lute player and Boston Early Music Festival Artistic Co-Director Paul O'Dette for a program of Italian and English duets. Philadelphia's Tempesta di Mare will present a fascinating program of works of Bach, his sons, Janitsh, and Mozart preserved by Sara Levy (the great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn) and her sisters, Jewish art patrons living in Berlin in the late eighteenth century. I'm especially excited to present Bach's Ascension Oratorio, scored for a quartet of vocal soloists and full orchestra in a performance by the Bach Society of Minnesota conducted by Matthias Maute. The orchestra, which will include strings, trumpets, timpani, flutes, and oboes, will be complemented by members of Ensemble Caprice, who will stay over and play a family concert and our season's final concert "Chaconne: Voices of Eternity." This program features variation and improvisation as seen in musical forms like the chaconne, passacaglia, and folia and is the repertoire for Ensemble Caprice's eighteenth CD. Before signing off I need to tell you we have new web and email addresses: www.IEMusic.org and [email protected]. Thanks for being with us to enjoy great music in our wonderful venue by the canal. Please come early to hear informal chats with the artists and stay late for IEM's famous receptions. And please, help us spread the word! —Mark Cudek, Artistic Director gg^j INDIANAPOLIS EARLY MUSIC // www.IEMusic.org 2016 Annual Report (10/1/15 - 9/30/16) Before the genesis of the Festival Music Society, the city's professional classical musicians, chiefly members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, were often idle during the summer, and their fans had nothing local on their summer concert schedule. Music lovers had gone to Tanglewood and Aspen, but they wanted something here, and thus our Festival Music Society (FMS) and today's Indianapolis Early Music (IEM) were formed. The Festival Music Society began with a series of five concerts held out-of-doors on the terrace of Oldfields, the estate donated by the Lilly family to the Art Association of Indianapolis on the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Museum. Today, programs are presented indoors in the acoustically favorable Katrina and Frank Basile Auditorium of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, and the festival has prospered. It has been led by three artistic directors: Michael Palmer, Frank Cooper, and for the last ten years, Mark Cudek. Known for his early music scholarship and performance, Cudek brings to Indianapolis each summer the finest medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical music from around the world. A festive atmosphere prevailed throughout the Indianapolis Early Music Festival of 2016. There was a sense of anticipation before each concert as we celebrated our 50th-anniversary season. It was a festival of memories dedicated to countless friends, whose love and support of early music have brought mirth and beauty to Indianapolis. What were some of the highlights of the 50th-anniversary season for me? A special resolution from the Indianapolis City-County Council and Mayor Greg Ballard to recognize Indianapolis Early Music's contribution to the cultural life of the city. IEM's being featured on the cover of Early Music America magazine and the lovely article written by Jay Harvey. The joyous feeling at the opening concert as the realization that our fifty years' anniversary was indeed here and now. The beautiful tiered cake certainly added to the festive atmosphere. A sense that our Education Outreach in schools and our free tickets for students had encouraged more young people to attend our concerts last summer.