Our On-going Mini-Series: Closing the Gap
In these cross-genre concerts we demonstrate the ways that
early music relates to particular folk traditions from Europe to
the New World. Before the year 1800, classical and traditional
music were much more closely associated, with blurry boundaries.
Today there exists a gap between the two types of players.
Baroque Northwest continues to close that gap in these concerts.
We can show how different musical vocabularies actually share much
in common and demonstrate ideas about how musics inform one another
and cross over cultural boundaries. Today Early Music players need to
create 50% of the music (50% is the written notes), making each piece
their own, and each time a piece is played it could have an entirely
different interpretation. Traditional music players have always made
each piece their own, improvising within the vocabulary of their style
and composing their own music.
Our program on February 23, 2008 features
special guest fiddle player and Seattle favorite
Ruthie Dornfeld
in a program of music from Iberia, Mexico, and other parts
of the New World.
