Somerville Museum Presents

e a r ly m u s i c a f t e r n o o n s duo maresienne special guests

& thirtieth season 2018-2019

For her part, the gambist Carol Lewis offered us a brilliant demonstration of her instrument. Her technique and her musicality, her breathtaking dexterity transported us, in Marin Marais’ Grand Ballet, to a distant time, where music was not noise but elegance and discretion... The [’s] subtle sonority, its nuances full of finesse found in Henriksen an ideal interpreter. tcentre presse, poitiers,

Henriksen was able to dazzle with his virtuosity in the fantastical figurations of ’s solo Fantasy for and Kapsberger’s similarly brilliant Toccata prima. tthe boston herald

Andreas Lidl’s three-movement Sonata in C Major closed the program. Here, Lewis’s da gamba and Henriksen’s lute stunned with delightful melodies and harmonies encased in complex, baroque . tthe boston musical intelligencer

“Carol Lewis measured her runs and bowing to let Abel’s “Arpeggio” solo piece work on patrons’ senses. The plan worked as Lewis breezed through the difficult runs, and patrons smiled. t the lincoln journal star (lincoln, ne)

The group presented a coherent, well-performed, joyful, even passionate, program that offered a full, satisfying range, from pensive, to pleasantly refined, to ebullient. t the boston musical intelligencer

We were treated to a display of dazzling technical virtuosity and passionate playing gut- gripping intensity that held the audience frozen still in its seats. The ensemble between Carol Lewis (who really did make the sing) and Olav Chris Henriksen was perfect - and had the polish of long practice. tearly music review, england

e a r ly m u s i c a f t e r n o o n s thirtieth season, 2018-2019

I. Sunday, October 14, 2018 Pièces en Trio: Musical Delights from 18th-century France. Flutists Na’ama Lion and Peter H. Bloom join Carol” Lewis, viola da gamba, and Olav Chris Henriksen, and theorbo, in a program of music for winds and strings together, including works by Couperin, Marais, Jacquet de la Guerre, Senaillé & Dornel.

II. Sunday, December 9, 2018 Fabula di Orfeo: an Entertainment in Italian Poetry and Song. This will be an extravaganza of music from the early Italian renaissance, featuring mezzo-soprano Burcu Gulec, countertenor and cor- netto virtuoso Michael Collver, with Steven Lundahl, and recorder, James Williamson and Carol Lewis, , Olav Chris Henriksen, lute, and George Lernis, percussion, performing works by Tromboncino, Cara, Pesenti and others, with poetry by Angelo Poliziano.

III. Sunday, January 13, 2019 The Return of the King: Music of the English Restoration. Très Maresienne (Lisa Brooke, violin; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo & Baroque lute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba) perform sonatas, fantasias and grounds by Purcell, Finger, Locke, Mace, Simpson, Young and others.

IV. Sunday, March 3, 2019 Fortunate Isles: English Renaissance Consort Music. El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson, Alice Mroszczyk, da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute, bandora & cittern) perform pavans, galiards, fantasies and divisions by Allison, Dowland, Morley, Holborne, Cutting & others.

V. Sunday, May 12, 2019 Lautengalanterie: German Baroque Lute Duets. Lutenists Timothy Burris and Olav Chris Henrik- sen perform works by Hagen, Telemann, Gumprecht, Radolt and Corigniani. The program will include a recently-rediscovered lute duet by 18th-century lute master Silvius Leopold Weiss. /. All concerts take place at the Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road (at Central St.), Somer- ville, MA, and begin at 3:00 p.m. For further information, please call 617-666-9810 or go to www.somervillemuseum.org. Admission is $20 for the general public, $15 for students, seniors, and Museum members.

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