Louis XIV visits Coupeville for Salish Sea Early Music Festival

Louis XIV joins us next Sunday evening, January 25 at 7 PM (not 7:30!) as we journey to a musical soirée in 1713, designed to conjure up a wealth of pleasant reminiscences of our favorite ballets, operas and chamber music from the previous half-century, all transcribed for a smaller ensemble of the king's favored musicians in an intimate setting.

 A remarkable and almost completely unknown manuscript, discovered in Paris by Jeffrey Cohan several decades ago, was prepared for these "little evening concerts" for the aging Louis XIV by his long-time music librarian André Danican Philidor l'ainé, who organized and transcribed some of Louis' favorite music from at least the previous 54 years, for performance by the king's favorite instrumentalists. Two years before his death in 1715, Louis XIV was anxious to revisit the music of his youth in an intimate setting as was his preference in those days, quite in contrast with the grand original productions of his youth. Philidor dates some of these selections as far back as 1659, when Louis XIV was 21 and had danced for eight years already in ballet performances at court, most famously as the sun god Apollo. This year we'll explore a new selection of 5 more of the 67 suites that Philidor assembled within these 770 pages.

We are grateful to Coupeville United Methodist Church for providing an ideal setting for our performance.

— LITTLE EVENING CONCERT for LOUIS XIV —
            Sunday, January 25 at 7:00 PM (not 7:30)
   · Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon
   · Y Hsuan (Ethan) Lin, baroque violin
   · Vicki Gunn, baroque viola
   · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute

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    Coupeville United Methodist Church 
        608 N.Main Street in Coupeville
    www.salishseafestival.org/whidbey
 — Suggested donation $20 to $30 —
(a free will offering; pay as you wish) • 18 and under free 
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Thank you so much for your donations (also at the door ☺) which enable this project entirely ♥. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/donate.