• Flutes from Six Centuries
Jeffrey Cohan's
instruments to be heard in this performance range from the longest historical flute without keys, the
renaissance great bass, to the modern flute, and they include 5 renaissance
flutes of various sizes, four baroque flutes from various time periods and
countries, two antique flutes made in London in 1785 and 1820 during the
lifetimes of Mozart and Beethoven, an old-system flute from around 1900 which
was owned by Frank Horsfall, the original first flutist of the Seattle Symphony,
and the modern flute with which all are familiar. The reproductions of earlier
flutes were made by contemporary flute builders in Boston, Seattle, Innsbruck
and Florence.
The program will include music by Georg Philipp Telemann,
Jakob Van Eyck, Friedrich Kuhlau, a number of flutist-composers and unpublished
variations on Auld Land Syne and other melodies which Jeffrey has unearthed
in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
• Johann Sebastian Bach
JS Bach Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord
Harpsichordist George Shangrow and baroque
flutist Jeffrey Cohan will perform the sonatas for flute and harpsichord by
Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Bach Sonatas are some of the most well-known
works for flute. For over 30 years the Cohan-Shangrow Duo have performed all
eight of them in one program, which Jeffrey has always performed from memory. It
has been argued that three of the eight sonatas may in fact be by one of Bach's
sons; this shorter program will include only the five sonatas which are surely
by JS Bach.
Most baroque sonatas are written with no more than a bass
line or “continuo” part from which the harpsichordist improvised an
accompaniment. J.S. Bach was the first to fully write out an “obbligato”
harpsichord part for both hands to accompany a solo sonata, and the flute
sonatas are of both types, in addition to the Partita for solo flute, which will
be included on the program.
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A suggested donation (a free will offering)
of $15 will be requested. Youth 18 and under are encouraged to attend for free.
For further information please call (360) 445-3164 or (800) 281-8026. |
