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SUMMARY:Early Music Society of the Islands presents: Back Before Bach
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/early-music-society-of-the-islands-presents-back-before-bach/
LOCATION:Alix Goolden Hall :: 907 Pandora Ave Victoria,  V8V 3N4
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p>Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, from Philadelphia, performs Back Before Bach.<br /><br />Music familiar to Bach&rsquo;s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, a Stadtpfeifer in the town band of Arnstadt, performed on shawms, recorders, sackbuts and bagpipes by one of today&rsquo;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.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Energetic but fastidious performers: the recorder playing has a gorgeous, woody transparency; the reeds and sackbuts are raucous, bright and precisely tuned&rdquo; NEW YORK TIMES<br /><br /><a href="http://www.piffaro.org/">http://www.piffaro.org/</a><br /><br />Tickets are available at the McPherson Box Office:<br /><br />#3 Centennial Square<br />250-386-6121 / Toll free 1-888-717-6121<br /><a href="http://www.rmts.bc.ca/mcpherson/index.aspx">www.rmts.bc.ca/mcpherson/index.aspx</a><br /><br />Ticket pricing information is available at http://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/tickets/</p>
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