Do not neglect your music,” Thomas Jefferson wrote his daughter. “It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.” Works that would have been heard in 1775 across four capital cities. Composers include Billings, Arne, JC Bach, Barsanti, Cervetto, Baltzar, Lanzetti, Haydn, & Mozart.
With Carley DeFranco, soprano; Susanna Ogata, violin; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
Program:
“When Jesus Wept” (hymn) – William Billings
Pièces for Violoncello – Salvatore Lanzetti
Grave
Allegro
A Collection of Old Scots Tunes – Joseph Haydn
The Lass of Peatie’s Mill
Ettrick Banks
Pinkie House
De quels tourmens – Carlo Monza
Sonato No. 1 in C major, K.6 for keyboard & violin – W.A. Mozart
intermission
“Nothing New” – Thomas Arne
Duo in G minor for 2 cellos – Giaccobe Cervetto
“Johny Come Kiss Me Now” from John Playford’s Division for Violin – Thomas Baltazar
Variations on “God Save the King” (“My Country ‘Tis of Thee”) from Concerto No. 6, Op.1 – Johann Christian Bach
“I am the Rose of Sharon” (hymn) – William Billings
