JBO Showcase Concerts for 2007/8

            While our orchestral/choral concerts are deeply satisfying to plan, prepare and perform, much wonderful music of the period is for smaller forces and more intimate venues. To provide our musicians with opportunities to perform these often little-known works, and our audience to hear them, we’ve developed this series of ancillary concerts, now in their fourth season.

Nov. 11, 3PM, Trinity Episcopal Church, Ashland
2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Buxtehude, the musician most admired by J.S. Bach, who famously walked some 200-odd miles to hear the great master play. (Later, the young Handel and Mattheson made the same pilgrimage, though by coach). We offer a selection of his most engaging organ works, cantatas & chanber music to give an idea of the genius of this Baroque master.


Feb. 10, 3PM, 1st Congregational Church, Ashland
Music from the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey/Maturin novels are fairly stuffed with music played or heard by the protagonists and we've chosen a selection of pieces played by the characters or heard by them that should please the most dedicated O'Brien devotee. Included will be music for violin & cello, fortepiano, quartet, as well as sea-songs & chanteys from the best historical novels ever written.


April 13th, 3PM, 1st Congregational Church, Ashland
The viola d'amore concert with Dr. Dan Thomason had to be postponed last season, and we offer it as the third of this season's chamber concerts.
Karl Stamitz: Sonata for Viola d'amore & violin solo, violin, viola, cello, bass, 2 flutes & 2 horns
Karl Stamitz: Sonata for Viola d'amore & bass
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda: Sonata for Viola d'amore, 2 horns & harpichord and more...

 

Tickets for Showcase Concerts: $8 regular, $5 student, $5 for season ticket holders