Santa Cruz Baroque Festival

201542nd Season

Early Music Treasures

Artistic Director: Linda Burman-Hall

Welcome! Reaching a 42nd year is quite an amazing feat for an early music non-profit in the second smallest county in California!

I vividly remember the first time I heard about the Baroque Festival. It was 2006 and my 10-year-old son wanted to try his luck in the Youth Chamber Music Competition. Through that lucky connection, I began to follow the Festival, eventually serving on the Board of Directors, and since July 2014 as President.

My service has taught me how vitally important it is that people were willing to work behind the scenes to sustain this organization through those 42 seasons. On the horizon are inevitable adaptations that Baroque Festival will need to consider that need your input. Regardless of your background, there’s something you can contribute to make this an even more vibrant and exciting organization that reaches an expanding and ever more diverse audience — While you’re enjoying our program tonight, please consider and let us know what we’re doing right and what we should think about doing next.

My particular passion is the Youth Competition. After all, who will develop into the artists performing future concerts like these? From 2014, our fall fundraiser will annually present the best of the Young Artists from our Chamber Music Competition. Those of you who were able to attend this year’s concert at Holy Cross were treated to several eye-opening performances! No doubt, these outstanding young musicians will be making their mark on the music world.

What are your visions for the future of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival? Since you care, buy season tickets or flex passes, donate generously, and volunteer if you can. Your input and support is vital fuel for our next 42 seasons!

My Highest Regards for you all,

Greg HayfordPresident,Santa Cruz BaroqueFestival Board of Directors

The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival

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Thank You

FoundersPreston & Sara BoomerMrs. Clover H. BurmanRon HaasMr. & Mrs. Burt Muhly

Bonita John Inderjit Kaur & Nirvikar Singh Rob Knourek Marshall Leicester & Dion Farquhar Jeannie Logan Gerry Mandel Lawrence & Dorothy Manzo Michael & Susan Brooks McKay John & Nancy Mead Dr. Todd Mitchell Robert & Edie RittenhouseCraig & Corey Rowell Bruce Sawhill Stuart Schlegel Maximillian Schmeder Pauline Seales Debbie Simpson Howard Swann & Anita Dyer Lincoln & Lee Taiz William Visscher

Angels (1,000+)Linda Burman-HallDavid Kaun (in honor of Anika Narayanan)Patrick TeverbaughDean Silvers

Nobles (500-999)Preston Q. BoomerDavid & Mary Alice CoppPhyllis Rosenblum Gabrielle StockerRobert TaylorCarol Wilhelmy & Don Fong

Sustainers (250-499)Anonymous IIIKatherine CalkinFaye CrosbyMerry DennehyJudith DonaldsonH. Ernest FoxRowland & Pat RebeleGreg & Yi-Yen Hayford Donald Wilson

Patrons (100-249)Anonymous II Barbara Beerstein Lynne Boccignone Randy & Carin Chapin David & Mary Jane Cope Peter Dean & Olga Pappas Sharon Dirnberger Ron & Lorrie EmeryJim Engelman Wesley & Gertrude Fator Craig & Mimi French Patricia Jacobs

Lords and Ladies (25-99)Anonymous I (memories of Charlie) Kenneth & Nathalie Auerbach Rolf Augustine Jessica Beckett Barbara Berman Barbara Burkhart Ronald C. Burman Ben Leeds Carson John Christerson Elisabeth Crabtree Darryl Coe John & Ann Dizikes Frank & Judy Foreman Donald & Frances Gaver Bill & Christine Green Colin & Sheila Willey Hannon Cameron & Camille Harrison Miriam Henderson Paul Hostetter & Robin Petrie Dale & Tara Hume Jeanne Lance & David Fleming Lavinia Livingston Kenneth Lyons Bill & Cynthia Mathews Colleen McInerney Meagher Andrea Merkel

Fans (15-24)Caitlyn Anderson Timothy J. Anderson Sarina Hall Max Perrey Sjamsir Sjarif Ethan Smith Roy Stegman

Alan & Leta Miller Vlada Moran Alverda Orlando Damian Parr Barry & Shelley Phillips Todd & Jill Prindle Loretta Rao Ivan Rosenblum Madelyn McCaul & Mike Rotkin Nick & Ruth Royal Michael & Rosemary Sarka Timothy H. Shea Andrew C. Smith Deborah Smith Howard & Roberta Sosbee Byron & Anne Thomas Nina Treadwell Ruth Updegraff Kumiko Uyeda Dan & Lynn Wagner Hongyun & Lucy Wang Robin Whitehouse Anthony YorkNik & Leah Parker Zumberge

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The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival is grateful for our generous donors:

Foundation SponsorsArts Council Santa Cruz County, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County,

San Francisco Chamber Music Society, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund , United Way of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Stocker Family Fund,

Culture Ireland

Season & Concert SponsorsDean Silvers

Patrick TeverbaughLinda Burman-Hall

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music

Special Event SponsorsDavid Kaun (in honor of Anika Narayanan)

Business PatronsKUSP, KZMT, Hallcrest Vineyards, Driscoll’s Berries, Darwin Arts L.L.C., Bonny

Doon Baroque

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Cover Image: The Concert, Vermeer, c.1664

Broadcasts of all our season concerts on Radio KUSP (88.9FM or www.kusp.org)

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Early Music Treasures We treasure what surprises us with its beauty, particularly if it’s rare.Whenever something buried or lost for centuries or even millennia comes to light, we’re astonished with its sophistication and bemused with how a way of life long passed away can still somehow be present and emotional.

Such are the treasures of the early music repertoire — the memorable seductive melodies associated with Shakespeare’s plays in High Renaissance style (Concert III), the visionary experimental or earthy instrumental and vocal music that arose in Italy and became known as Baroque (Concert I), the lilting and poignant melodies of Ireland’s renowned harp treasure, Turlough O’Carolan (Concert II), and finally the crowning glory of the high Baroque as encoded in the majestic works of J. S. Bach(Concert IV). Except for the familiar music of J. S. Bach, the works on our series can really be considered ‘buried treasure’ — much of it brought to light for a first hearing in centuries.

While the survival of treasured scores and instruments across the centuries has been hit-and-miss, what of our primary window into an earlier time, historical paintings? Consider, for example the portrait of a cozy trio depicted by Jan Vermeer in our cover image. The focus is on a maiden playing a harpsichord with elegantly painted lid, the home entertainment center of the age. Captivated, a man plays lute while another young woman stands to sing. A viol lies in the foreground, unused for the moment. The power of Vermeer’s art has such force that our ears strain to hear their music. But this treasured window into Baroque life has effectively been rebur-ied: in a 1990 heist, The Concert was stolen from Boston’s Gardner Museum and has not been recovered. It remains the most valuable stolen painting ever, with a reward of $5,000,000 leading to its recovery and a current estimated value of $200,000,000 should it somehow be found.

The discontinuities caused by the many lost arts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classic periods in culture and the fine arts abound, and in music we can only hope to leap the gaps by good guesses in how performance was done, and by careful reading of period manuscripts and editions using historic style instruments. But some arts have remained in continuous practice: in America, the historic British Isles arts of military fifing, fiddling (a folk survival of Baroque violin practice) and sacred harp singing have changed little in three centuries. Our final program (Concert V) features these treasured still-living historic folk arts along with cutting edge new American music inspired by Baroque templates by Robert Strizich, commissioned in conjunction with The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

-- Linda Burman-Hall,Artistic Director

About the Artistic DirectorLinda Burman-Hall, a performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ, is a specialist in music theory and performance with degrees from UCLA and Prince-ton University. She is active not only as a recitalist and ensemble director, but also is well known as a research musicologist. After post-doctoral research at the Uni-versity of Amsterdam, she joined the faculty at UCSC, where she previously taught music theory, harpsichord, chamber music, and world music courses.While approaching early keyboard literature from an in-dependent perspective, Dr. Burman-Hall has studied with Alan Curtis and Gustav Leonhardt. She has performed and recorded with celebrated performers of early music and California artists, including Judith Nelson, Max van

Egmond, Randall Wong, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Monica Huggett, Anner Byls-ma, and Julianne Baird, and appeared with groups such as Philharmonia Baroque, Chanticleer, American Baroque Ensemble, Musica Pacifica and is the founder of the nationally recognized Lux Musica. Her festival appearances include the Carmel Bach Festival, E. Nakamichi Baroque Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival, Aston Mag-na, and the American Musicological Society. She has also been featured in solo and ensemble concerts at the Getty, de Young, Huntington, and the Smithsonian Mu-seums, and has performed throughout the United States and in Canada, The Neth-erlands, Germany, and Indonesia, with broadcasts on NPR and local media. For her performance research and recordings, she has also received individual and team grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Aaron Copland Fund, Creative Work Fund, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and the University of California.Linda Burman-Hall is founder and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Under her direction, the Baroque Festival has presented hundrends of early music concerts, and has received numerous grants, including National Endowment for the Arts and California Arts Council funds. For her contributions to the local community, the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission named her 1994 “Artist of Year”. She was given a “Gail Rich Award” on January, 2013.Dr. Burman-Hall’s current Baroque chamber and solo music recordings are avaliable on the Centaur, Helicon, Kleos, Wildboar, GoldenHorn, MSR, and East Meets West Music labels. Her early music releases feature works by Jacques Hardel, étienne Richard, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Antonio Vivaldi, Heinrich Schütz, J.S. Bach, and Josef Haydn. She has directed the early instrument ensemble Lux Musica in the highly acclaimed Haydn & The Gypsies, Classical Cats (2000 and 2001, both on Kleos), Cantemir: Music in Istanbul and Ottoman Europe around 1700 (2004, GoldenHorn), Celt-ic Caravans (2001, MSR), and Raga & Raj, North Indian Music (2013, East Meets West Music). Solo recordings include of CD of contemporary keyboard works by Lou Harrison (2002, New Albion), and Erik Satie: Visions, played on a 1875 érard Grand Piano (2004, MSR).

2015 Season ProgramI Treasures from the Birth of the BaroqueSaturday, February 7, 2015 7:30 PM UCSC Recital Hall*

Featuring: Marja Gaynor, Baroque violin & viola with Nina Treadwell, theorbo, archlute, baroque guitar, lute, tambourine, and Linda Burman-Hall, early keyboards and percussion, with introduction by William Mathews, astronomer. Exotic songs and dances from the birth of the Baroque, featuring the Baroque Festi-val debut of strings virtuoso Marja Gaynor of Ireland. Our fantastic exploration of tonal space by composers from the age of Galileo onward will be accompanied by deep space progressions on the UCSC Center Recital Hall wide screen. A meet-the-artists reception for subscribers and donors follows.

Round trip airfare for Marja Gaynor is provided by Culture Ireland.Radio Broadcast: Concert recording KUSP OnSite: Friday March 20 from 8-10pm

II Treasures of the Irish HarpSaturday, February 21, 2015 7:30 PM UCSC Recital Hall*

Featuring: Bill Coulter and FriendsAn enchanting tapestry of plucked and bowed sounds featuring compositions by Ire-land’s most famous musician, the blind Baroque harper Turlough O’Carolan, led by renowned Celtic guitarist Bill Coulter accompanied by harp, flute, fiddle, harpsichord and percussion.

Radio Broadcast: Concert recording KUSP OnSite: Friday April 17 from 8-10pm

III Treasures from the Age of ShakespeareSaturday, March 14, 2015 7:30 PM UCSC Recital Hall*

Featuring: The Baltimore ConsortHeavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Revel in the triumphal return of America’s favorite early music ensemble, playing their ‘exquisite consort’ of Renaissance instruments – lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competi-tion.

Radio Broadcast: Concert recording KUSP OnSite: Friday April 24 from 8-10pm

2015 Season ProgramIV Treasures of J.S. BachSaturday, April 11, 2015 7:30 PM Holy Cross Chruch

Featuring: Lux MusicaAn astonishing variety of the master’s virtuoso instrumental works for Baroque violin, Baroque flute and viola da gamba with harpsichord, played by the Festival’s resident ensemble, and topped off by the celebrated trio sonata from The Musical Offering.

Radio Broadcast: Concert recording KUSP OnSite: Friday June 12 from 8-10pm

V American TreasuresSaturday, May 2, 2015 7:30 PM UCSC Recital Hall*

Featuring: Lux Musica and Hank Bradley, Old Timey FiddleA kaleidoscope of American music, from the earliest colonial dance and sacred mu-sic styles – old timey fiddling and shape note psalmody – to rollicking and sophisti-cated selections from the 18th century. We close with the world premiere of a vision-ary new microtonal American work commissioned for Lux Musica and the Baroque Festival by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, Robert Strizich’s Mirrored. A meet-the-artists reception for subscribers and donors follows.

Radio Broadcast: Concert recording KUSP OnSite: TBA

Music in the GardenSunday, May 24, 2015 2:00 - 5:00 PM

This year our garden party will feature diverse music in an extraordinary large estate garden, along with a selection of gourmet snacks, drinks and wine.

Boomeria Organ ExtravaganzaSaturday, July 11, 2015 1:00 - 5:00 PM

An afternoon of organ music, wine and snacks, on the spectacular grounds of Boomeria.

*There is a $4 charge for event parking at UCSC.

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About Us The Baroque Festival was founded in 1974 by early-keyboard specialist Linda Burman-Hall as a way to share the joys of early music with friends and the community. In the beginning there was just a handful of fine musicians playing with rising excitement through centuries of early scores while studying historical treatises, puzzling how their own instruments could best express this old and enchanting music and touch the heart of the listener. With this commitment, our concerts have continuously revived the excitement and controversy that early music generated when it was new. Since its early days, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival has grown as aproducing and presenting organization, bringing music to Santa Cruz area audiences in hundreds of concerts for 42 years. Our artists perform on period instruments, which are not commonly heard on concert stages, but communicate the music of their time with great integrity and power. We often play from facsimile or ‘urtext’ editions, using historical playing styles that include improvisation of ornaments and figured bass. Our programs range from the medieval mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen to renaissance and baroque styles to the classical and romantic repertoire, including premieres of contemporary neo-baroque works. For 2015, our Baroque instruments include a Baroque violin, by Bertrand Galen (Cork, 2009) modeled after the ‘PG’ mold of Stradivarius, who first produced this design in 1689, and then returned to it in his celebrated ‘Golden Period’ (Concert I) and another instrument after Stradivari by Timothy Johnson, Hewitt, Texas, 2007 (Concerts IV-V). Our cellos include an anonymous English 18th century, possibly Wamsley family (Concert IV-V); similarly a bass viola da gamba made by James “Shem” Mackey in London 1987 copied after a Nicolas Bertrand 7 string bass is featured in Concert IV. Our early plucked instruments include a 5-course Baroque guitar (2008) by Ken Brodkey, based an Antonio Stradivari (Cremona, 1700), now in the National Music Museum, University of South Dakota, and a 7-course Renaissance lute (2008) by Ken Brodkey, modeled on an original by Vendelio Venere (Padua, 1592), now at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, Italy. The Baroque Festival fills a unique artistic niche in the greater Santa Cruz area, while keeping pace with the Bay Area’s cultural and artistic diversity.

Mission Statement Our mission is to present an annual concert season of early classical music as it sounded in its own time. By balancing masterworks and innovative collaborations, local and touring artists, experimenting with new ideas about old instruments, and famous early music stars with emerging talent, we aim to engage our audience in a virtual journey through musical time. We present a different theme each year with 5 cogent concerts within the theme, for example Endangered Musics (2011), Evolution! (2012), Homecoming: From Distant Lands (2013), Joyful Reunion (2014). We also offer delightful ‘crossover’ artists and programs that embrace the folk/classical interface, resulting in many unique concerts that are distinctly ‘locally-brewed’ and heard nowhere else.

Presenting 5 early music season concerts each year (February-May) under the umbrella of a season theme.

Expanding the envelope of ‘baroque’ by: Balancing timeless baroque works with unique and educational concert themes Featuring international touring artists alongside regional artists; Investigating crossovers with a variety of folk music styles; as well as Engaging in collaborations with other arts disciplines. Presenting off-season fundraiser events in support of the concert season and the organization’s operations. Engaging in community outreach through informative concert notes, our annual Youth Chamber Music Competition, radio broadcasts, and collaborations with emerging ensembles other organizations.

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