Early Music Society of the Islands presents: Back Before Bach

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Saturday, February 20th, 2016
Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Concert at 8 pm.

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, from Philadelphia, performs Back Before Bach.

Music familiar to Bach’s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, a Stadtpfeifer in the town band of Arnstadt, performed on shawms, recorders, sackbuts and bagpipes by one of today’s most respected Renaissance wind ensembles. Works by Isaac, Luther, Praetorius, Obrecht and Lassus, plus the popular dances of the day that underlie and inform all Baroque music.

    “Energetic but fastidious performers: the recorder playing has a gorgeous, woody transparency; the reeds and sackbuts are raucous, bright and precisely tuned” NEW YORK TIMES

http://www.piffaro.org/

Tickets are available at the McPherson Box Office:

#3 Centennial Square
250-386-6121 / Toll free 1-888-717-6121
www.rmts.bc.ca/mcpherson/index.aspx

Ticket pricing information is available at http://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/tickets/