The
Duo
The Continuo Players is a duo
specializing in early music from 1600 to 1800. Using baroque bassoon,
viola da gamba and recorders, Paula and Jill combine a variety of sounds
to convey the feeling and ambience of former times. The repertoire of
The Continuo Players includes works from England, Italy, France and Germany
by such composers as Bach,
Boismortier, Blavet, East, Handel,
Loeillet, Marais,
Morley, Philidor, Reinagle,
Loeillet, Telemann
and Vivaldi. They combine the
music with readings from the same period.
This duo concertizes in libraries and museums throughout the New York
City area.
Demonstration
CD available on request.
About
the Players
Paula Rand
performs on recorders, dulcian, baroque and classical bassoons. She has
appeared with many musical companies including The Grand Band, Mannes
Camerata, New York City Ballet, Bel Canto Opera, American Virtuosi, REBEL,
Baroque Orchestra, Traverse Music and Ama Deus Ensemble. She performed
for ten years with The Hopewell Consort and currently performs with The
Continuo Players. She is an active member of ARTEK, a renowned early music
group in which she has been performing and recording since 1990.
Jillian Samant was a faculty member of the Long Island
Recorder Festival summer workshop for thirteen years. She performs with
groups in New York City and Long Island on recorders and viola da gamba
and was a founding member of La Spiritata and Living Loft Players. Besides
participating as a musician in several off-Broadway shows she performed
and talked about the lyra viol on a West Australian TV documentary.
Links:
New York Revels
Our next program is at the
Donnell Library Center,
20 West 53rd Street
October 15, 2007 at 2:30 pm
with guest artist, Kamel Boutros
Eighteenth Century Galants
The Ladies Bill of Fare, or a copious Collection of Beaux, 1795
The idea for this concert came from an engraving found while wandering the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This engraving was designed to be mounted as a fan and portrays twelve galants accompanied by a name and a quote. Each figure depicts a particular type of lover and the visual portrait reveals the nature of the lover. For instance, the Lover of Nobody is shown kicking his dog while the Constant Lover is gazing at a portrait of his beloved.
We decided to choose pieces for our program today to accompany these twelve galants. Each piece of music is based on an "affect" or emotional state so we simply matched the affect to the galant.
This concert is presented as part of the New York Early Music Celebration.