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Have you ever seen or heard a real harpsichord in Fairfield? No? Well, on Sunday afternoon, May 4, Basically Baroque, a harpsichord duo from Ames will be giving a recital at ICON Gallery, 58 North Main Street in Fairfield. They are bringing their very own keyboard over to our neck in the woods.
The concert, organized by Chamber Music Society Fairfield starts at 2 pm. You’ll be hearing Kevin Schilling on oboe, baroque oboe and bassoon with Lynn Zeigler on harpsichord. Both artists serve on the faculty of Iowa State University and have been performing together since 1975. Eventually they named their duo Basically Baroque.
Although baroque music is a special love of theirs, the ensemble’s repertoire actually covers the baroque through contemporary periods and their concerts present a variety of styles and instrumental combinations. When the instruments are available, Lynn Zeigler performs on organ and harpsichord and Kevin Schilling plays oboe, baroque oboe, English horn, and bassoon.
They will perform a lively program with compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann, Michael Head, Domenico Scarlatti, Stephen Dodgson and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Advance tickets $13 available at ICON, or call 641-472-7634. $15 at the door. Please come on time.
PROGRAM
Michael Head (1900-1976)
Siciliana
oboe and harpsichord
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G, K. 146
harpsichord
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in G Minor
Adagio
Allegro
Vivace
baroque oboe and harpsichord
INTERMISSION
Stephen Dodgson (born 1924)
Suite in D
Prelude
Ground
Canzonet
Dance
oboe and harpsichord
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata in F Minor
Triste
Allegro
Andante
Vivace
bassoon and harpsichord
The Instruments
The harpsichord was built in 1981 by William Dowd of Boston. It is a French double (two keyboards) harpsichord modeled after Blanchet, about 1700. The instrument has three sets of strings, two eight-foot and one four-foot, which can be used separately or in combinations. In order to make it possible to play the instrument with modern instruments at A=440 and baroque instruments at A=415 (a half step lower), the keyboard is movable; the entire keyboard simply moves up or down one string to play at the proper pitch.
The baroque oboe is a copy of an instrument made by Thomas Stanesby, Sr. of London about 1700. It is made of boxwood with silver keys and three decorative ivory rings. The original is in the Rosenbaum Collection in Scarsdale, New York; the copy was made in 1988 by Harry A. Vas Dias of Decatur, Georgia.
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