A Broken Consort

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents A Broken Consort, the second of five Vashon Island 2012 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performances and an exploration of renaissance music on period instruments with Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance tenor and bass transverse flutes, Shula Kleinerman on the off-the-shoulder renaissance violin and John Lenti, renaissance lute on Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 PM at Vashon United Methodist Church at 17928 Vashon Highway SW.

In A Broken Consort, the flutes, violin and lute of the Renaissance will be heard in the popular chamber music of the 16th and early 17th centuries, and to recast the songs of love and other poetic sentiments of the day.

Adaptations of vocal works made up a large part of the chamber music of the 16th and 17th centuries, often with intricate instrumental lines added to or derived from vocal melodies, which can require the utmost virtuosity from the performers.

A renaissance "consort" of different sizes of like renaissance instruments, such as lutes, stringed instruments, recorders, etc., was considered "broken" when instruments from different families (in this case wind, string and plucked) were brought together. This Broken Consort performance will feature music from 1500 through 1650 for these very seldom heard renaissance instruments.

The suggested donation, a free will offering towards expenses, will be $15 or $20 for all concerts. Youth 18 and under are free. For further information the public is requested to call (206) 463-9804. Please see www.concertspirituel.org for further information.

Upcoming performances on Vashon , All performances to take place at Vashon United Methodist Church.

On Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 PM, The Bach Family will feature harpsichordist Jan Weinhold from Lübeck, Germany and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.

The program will offer selections by Johann Sebastian and his sons Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian.

On Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 PM, 1820: Guitar, Flute and Viola will feature guitarist Oleg Timofeyev from Iowa City, Iowa, violist Steven Creswell and Jeffrey Cohan on the 8-keyed flute.