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An Evening of Baroque Music
As part of SLAM’s Festive Fridays celebration, musicians from Early Music Missouri will be performing Baroque music for solo violin and lutes in the Museum’s Grigg Gallery. The musicians will discuss and describe the music, their historical instruments, and other aspects of historical performance. Listeners will have opportunities to ask questions and to see the instruments up close.
No tickets are required for this free program. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Celina Boldrey. Photo by Brendan Joyce. Image courtesy Early Music Missouri.
About the performers
Baroque violinist Celina Boldrey and lutenist Jeffrey Noonan will perform 17th-century dances, sonatas and suites by composers including Arcangelo Corelli, Biagio Marini, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. EMMo musicians perform on historical instruments or very precise reproductions of historical instruments. Boldrey plays a French violin built in 1725, and Noonan will play reproductions of a theorbo (an extended bass lute) and a Baroque guitar (forerunner of our modern instrument) from the mid-17th century.
Early Music Missouri began in 2018 with informal concerts. The group has since grown to become an important part of the region’s musical life, presenting concerts, workshops, master classes, and lectures regionally and nationally. Concerts feature medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical repertoire played on instruments (originals and reproductions) from these eras. Using historical documents and original musical scores, and guided by modern research, performances reflect a historically informed approach to technique, interpretation, and performance.
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
