April 24, 2016: Baroque Cabaret

Sunday, April 24, 4 p.m. UAA Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building, Room 150)

Join UAA faculty Karen Stid-Chadwick, John Lutterman, and Armin Abdihodzic along with UAA adjuncts and affiliates John Damberg, Joel Stamoolis, Kate Egan and Laura Koenig for the Anchorage Festival of Music's Diamond Anniversary season wrap-up spring soirée, "Baroque Cabaret."

This musical event is guaranteed to forever change your view of baroque music. Did you know that parodies, burlesques, and vaudevilles were popular 17th- and 18th-century musical genres? AFM's Baroque Cabaret showcases a mix of authentic and historic humor on baroque instruments, baroque mash-ups for modern instruments, and baroque works freshly arranged for baroque and modern instruments combined.

Meet new friends and mingle over appetizers and beverages.

Tickets: On sale now at CenterTix.net. $15 for students, $25 for seniors and $35 for general admission.

Featuring:

• Tableau d'l'operation de la taille by Marin Marais (1725), a theatrical work commemorating the composer's gall bladder operation
• Dueling keyboards: An onstage battle between a harpsichordist and a pianist
• An 18th-century fandango
• A selection of songs by Johann Valentin Rathgeber intended to be performed at dessert ("Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul")
• A full French vaudeville devoted to birds "Love is not a bird who stays too long in a cage..."
• Selections from Telemann's program music celebrating the legend of Don Quixote (Burlesque de Quixotte)
• Claude Bolling's beloved Baroque and Blue
• Bach at the Double - jazzed up Bach!
• Rumor has it that a rare work by P.D.Q. Bach will be performed!

Featured artists:

• Kate Egan, soprano
• Dawn Lindsay, violin
• Laura Koenig, modern & baroque flute
• Armin Abdihodzic, guitar
• Linda Ottum, cello
• John Lutterman, cello & viola da gamba
• Joel Stamoolis, bass
• Karen Strid-Chadwick, piano
• Juliana Osinchuk, Harpsichord & piano
• John Damberg, drum set & percussion

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