Start Date: 09 February 2012
End Date: 09 February 2012
Time: 11:00am
Pacific Baroque Festival 2012 (Feb 9 – 12) presents music written for the 17th and 18th century French courts, and will show how French music at the Court at Versailles influenced two great German composers, Telemann and Bach.
For more information including ticket info – visit their official festival website.
Festival Program
“A Royal Concert – Music for the King’s Chamber”
11 am – Thursday February 9, 2012
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
The Duke of Saint-Simon wrote of Louis XIV: “With an almanac and a watch, you could be three hundred leagues from here and say what he was doing”. A music enthusiast and accomplished performer, music was performed in his chamber when he rose, dined alone at midday, and when he retired for the night.
“Metamorphosis – Viola da Gambist Paolo Pandolfo”
8pm – Thursday February 9, 2012
Alix Goolden Hall
“Early music” is already almost half a century old…The experience of it is something crucial for the future development of western cultivated music. Artists try to build bridges between past and present, between apparently contradictory dimensions and make them communicate.
The program is focused around the form “Suite”: from the early French masters of the viol such as St.Colombe and De Machy, who started giving a shape to it, up to the established form of those immortal by J.S.Bach, passing through Telemann’s only remaining solo Fantasia… alternated with completely original contemporary music, written and/or improvised by the same Pandolfo. The Festival is also introducing a new feature: a series of events to introduce the Victoria audience to French baroque music.
“Tastes Re-united – Music for the Ballet and the Opera”
8pm – Friday February 10, 2012
Alix Goolden Hall
Jean-Baptise Lully, invited to the French court as dancing master, established a new musical style whose influence extended far and wide, including to Germany.
“Spiritual Concerts – Music for the Royal Chapel”
8pm Saturday February 11, 2012
Alix Goolden Hall
Music for famed choir and orchestra of La Chapelle Royale as well as instrumental music for the Concert Spirituel, one of the first public concert series anywhere.
“Choral Evensong: Musique pour les dames religieuses”
4:30pm Sunday February 12
Christ Church Cathedral
Music written for the female voices as found in Henri Du Mont’s groundbreaking “Cantica Sacra (1652)” which was dedicated “to ladies of religion”, most likely those in the convent at Jouarre Abbey. The music of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, a remarkable female composer, evokes the growing influence of Italian baroque music in the Court of Louis XIV.
The Pacific Baroque Festival 2012 introduces a new feature: a series of events to introduce the Victoria audience to French baroque music.
Music as Propaganda at the Court of Louis XIV
Tuesday, January 10 (7:15pm; Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music)
Dr. Susan Lewis Hammond, Music Historian, University of Victoria
(Free admission; seating limited to 100 persons)
Les Notes Inégales and Swing!
Wednesday, January 11 (7:15pm; Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music)
Gord Clements, Department Head, Jazz Studies, Victoria Conservatory of Music
(Free admission; seating limited to 100 persons)
The rediscovery of French baroque music through period performance
Tuesday, January 17 (7:15pm; Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music)
Marc Destrubé, Artistic Director, Pacific Baroque Festival
(Free admission; seating limited to 100 persons)
“Tous les matins du monde”
Wednesday, January 18 (7pm & 9:15pm; Cinecenta, University of Victoria)
Adults $7.50; Seniors/Children: $5.60
