Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival Ends Oct 7

Please join us October 7th in Annapolis for three contrasting programs of early chamber music performed on period instruments with fabulous special guests viola da gambists Susie Napper and Melisande Corriveau from Montreal, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright from Bloomington, Indiana, and renaissance bassoonist Anna Marsh from the Pacific Northwest, along with our own favorites baroque violinist Marlisa del Cid Woods, lutenist and guitarist William Simms and flutist Jeffrey Cohan, all at 7:00 PM. These performances at St. Anne's Episcopal Church are co-sponsored by Live Arts Maryland and St. Anne's Episcopal Church and will also be repeated in Washington, DC and Baltimore. Please see www.chcmf.org/annapolis.

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  — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish)
  — 18 and under free
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  • October 7 - Wednesday at 7:00 PM •
3. THE QUALITY OF MERCY: Shakespeare in Venice 1600
       Marlisa del Cid Woods - baroque violin
       Anna Marsh - dulcian/renaissance bassoon
       William Simms - baroque guitar and theorbo
       Jeffrey Cohan - renaissance flute
Shakespeare asserted that "The quality of mercy is not strain’d, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven" in "The Merchant of Venice", first performed in 1605. The Italian chamber music from this time to be included in this program was imbued with humanism's late 16th and early 17th century perspective that brought human emotion and individualism ever more poignantly into public consciousness in all the arts. Music embraced greater chromaticism and emotional palpability, leading to the unfolding of what we think of today as baroque style. Stunning and relatively unknown musical selections by Cima, Buonamente, Merula, Frescobaldi and others are to be performed on instruments seldom heard today.