This program was featured on June 17, 2021 as part of the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert series.
In America throughout the 18th century amateur music making was an accomplishment through which good manners, taste, and politeness could be displayed in the pursuit of refinement. The ability to play a musical instrument as well as sing, dance, and draw were important fashionable skills to be cultivated under the tutelage of professional music tutors, masters of the dance, and artists. Since music making was a collaborative endeavor bringing players and listeners together, it was thought to be an important way to convey the felicities of social harmony.
THE CONCERT PROGRAM:
A Chamber Solo composed by Mr. Handel in Giulio Cesare
The Scots Ground set by Mr. Robt. Bremner
Lesson taken from Corelli’s 10th Concerto
A Pastorale as set by Domenico Zipoli from his Lessons
“Lovely Nancy” set by James Oswald
Minuet in Rodelinda as compos’d by Mr. Handel
The celebrat’d Gavotta in Love in a Village as set by Mr. Abel
Dr. Arne’s fam’d Air “Water Parted from the Sea” from Artaxerxes
“Generous Love” the Favourite Air by Mr. Henry Carey
Lord Kelly’s Minuet
Air Champêtre par M. Balbastre
Dances in Queen Mab composed by Mr. Dibdin
“The Flowers of the Forrest” as set by Mr. Bremner
Mr. Stanley’s Gavot taken from the Concertos
“Cibel” set by Mr. Bremner