2020 Pacific Baroque Festival - FASHIONABLY LATE
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About this Event
PACIFIC BAROQUE FESTIVAL
'FASHIONABLY LATE'
A Morning at London's Bach-Abel Concerts
Thursday, March 5 2020, 11am
The Conservatory of Music's Alix Goolden Performance Hall
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PERFORMERS
Paul Luchkow, baroque violin
Sam Stadlen, viola da gamba
Michael Jarvis, harpsichord
PROGRAMME INFORMATION
The Bach-Abel concerts were England’s first subscription concerts, organized between 1765 and 1782 by J.C. Bach and C.F. Abel. Featuring almost exclusively instrumental music, a great number of symphonies, overtures, concertos, airs from the opera as well as chamber music by Bach, Abel, Haydn and their contemporaries received their English premieres at the Wednesday performances. From 1765-1768 the concerts were organized by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, a retired Venetian operatic soprano, impresario, and courtesan who owned a highly fashionable concert hall at Carlisle House in Soho Square “the most magnificent place of entertainment in Europe.” In 1768 the concerts were transferred to larger premises at Almack’s Assembly Rooms at St. James’. In 1774 they returned to Soho Square for one season, then moved to the newly-constructed lavish concert hall in Hanover Square.'
From the diary of Edward Piggot:
“April the 16th 1776, Lord Fauconbery sent me a ticket for Bach and Abel’s Concert at the assembly room in Hanover Square. The performers were the two above mentioned, the second played a solo exceeding well; In all about 22 musicians; this concert is reckoned the best in the world, everything executed with the greatest taste and exactness; a very fine room; very elegantly painted; it was almost full, everybody dressed; between the acts they go in another room underneath where you have tea; it is by subscription; it begins at about 8 and ends at 10. Everything is very elegant.”
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GALANT & ELEGANT - Thursday March 5th, 8PM
Festival Pass Information -When you arrive at the first concert, your ticket will be scanned and then you will receive a lanyard with festival pass attached for entry to all subsequent concerts for the festival.
