Severall Friends

From the Heart
2022-03-05 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States
From the Heart:

String music in 17th century Austria and Germany

During the 17th century, beset by climate change, wars, famine, and pandemics, Austria and Germany were home to the flowering of the new stylus fantasticus, a free, virtuosic style of music. Its union with older dance forms produced a uniquely eloquent, and wonderfully human music, full of warmth, vigor, pathos, and endless invention. This program showcases string consort music in this “fantastic style” by Heinrich Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Johann Herman Schein, among others. Performing are Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Black, violin; Lisa Grodin, violin and viola; Jeffrey Smith, viola; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba, and Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord.

Saturday, March 5, 7:30 pm
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe
All tickets: $20
Tickets to From the Heart are sold out. Thank you for your support!

Bach 2 Bach
2020-02-29 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States
Bach 2 Bach: Duos for Violin and Harpsichord
An intimate evening of duos by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Elizabeth
Blumenstock, violin, and Matthew Dirst, harpsichord.
Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm; Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos
Saturday, February 29, 7:30 pm; San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe
Admission $20; students free with ID.
Sunday, March 1, 10:30 am; Chatter Sunday, 1512 1st St. NW, Albuquerque.
To purchase tickets for Chatter visit www.ChatterAbq.org.

Bach 2 Bach
2020-02-28 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos, 1738 N Sage Loop St, Los Alamos, 87544, United States

The Shadow of Night
2019-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos, 1738 N Sage Loop St, Los Alamos, 87544, United States
*VENUE CHANGE*
We are saddened to announce that San Miguel Chapel will not be available to us for our October 31 performance in Santa Fe. This concert will be performed at the Collected Works Bookstore at 202 Galisteo St. Note that this is a much smaller venue, and we won’t know exactly how many seats we can fit until we set up this evening. We will accommodate as many people as we can, but we have stopped advance purchase.

The Shadow of Night: A Concert for All Hallows’ Eve
At the turn of the 17th Century, English people of both high and low degree practiced the occult arts, from alchemy and Cabala to spells and witchcraft. Be entranced by excerpts from contemporary diaries, diatribes, drama, poetry and music, touching on magic of all sorts. With Jonathan Richards, reader; Ryland Angel, tenor; Vicki Boeckman, recorders; Mark Rimple, lute; Mary Springfels, viols.
Thursday, October 31, 7:30 pm; Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe
Friday, November 1, 7:30 pm; Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos
Admission $20; students free with ID.

The Shadow of Night
2019-10-31 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States

The Lascivious Low Road
2019-06-02 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos, 1738 N Sage Loop St, Los Alamos, 87544, United States
June 1 and 2, 2019: The Lascivious Low Road: Currying favor in Medieval France

F.A.U.V.E.L: Flattery, avarice, vileness, variability, envy, laziness. These are the character traits of Fauvel, a medieval hybrid creature, part human, part equine. He is the incongruous “hero” of a late medieval French satire, The Roman de Fauvel. Fauvel, despite his utter incompetence, rises to the heights of political influence, with the aid of Lady Fortune and her vacuous daughter, Vainglory. Toadies rush to his side to “curry fauvel,” the original form of the term “curry favor”, which is still in use today. This early critique of the abuse of power is razor sharp, appalling and very funny. The fabulous early Fourteenth Century manuscript which preserves Fauvel includes thousands of lines of poetry, brilliant illustrations, and every kind of music, from drunken song-refrains to cutting-edge motets by Philippe de Vitry. Our concert-length performance will be illuminated by images from the manuscript.

Performing are Drew Minter, voice and harp; Shira Kammen, Medieval fiddle; Mark Rimple, citole and gittern; Mary Springfels, citole and vielle; Tracy Cowart, harp and voice; Spiff Wiegand, hurdy-gurdy and percussion.

Concert Dates:
Saturday, June 1, 2019, 7.30pm: San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe.
Sunday, June 2, 2019, 3.00 pm: Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, Los Alamos
Admission $20; Students free with ID.

Open rehearsal Friday, May 31, 3:00 pm: Unitarian Universalists of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Rd., Santa Fe; $10 donation requested.

The Lascivious Low Road
2019-06-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States

Affettuoso!
2019-01-26 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, SANTA FE, NM, 87501, United States
January 25 and 26, 2019 Affettuoso!

Haydn at Eszterháza: the Opus 20 Quartets
When an extra violinist appeared in a scheduling mix-up at Esterhazy Palace one day in the 1760s, court composer Franz Joseph Haydn did some quick rearranging and invented the string quartet, an art form whose intricacies he would explore for the rest of his life and which went on to dominate chamber music for the next 150 years, a genre once described by Goethe as “four rational people conversing.” Severall Friends explore Haydn’s astoundingly wide-ranging and emotional Opus 20 quartets, using the period instruments, gut strings, and lighter bows with which Haydn himself was well-acquainted. Although Eszterháza was described at the time as the “Hungarian Versailles”, it had been built on top of a swamp, and Haydn, who was already in a funk, suffered from the sodden air like everybody else at court on top of his depression. Haydn’s earliest string quartets are rather sprightly; these reflect the sturm und drang of the era, with movements explicitly marked “affettuoso”. Featuring Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kati Kyme, violin; Liana Berube, viola; and Robert Howard, cello.

Friday, January 25, 2019; 7.30 pm: Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos.
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 7.30 pm: San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe.
Admission $20; students free with ID.

Affettuoso!
2019-01-25 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Ave, Los Alamos, NM, 87544, United States
