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SUMMARY:Pentimento presents 'Play'd in Massachusetts': American music 
 from 1620-1820
DESCRIPTION:Sunday, May 18, 2014, at 3:00 p.m.,Pentimento (Olav Chris 
 Henriksen,  archlute, cittern and guitar, and Eric Haas, recorders an
 d flutes) will offer a program of American music from 1620-1820, at th
 e Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of th
 e Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series.The
  history of American music parallels the history of the nation. Coloni
 als brought the music of their homelands to the earliest permanent set
 tlements: English in Jamestown & Plimoth, Dutch in New Amsterdam, Mora
 vian in Bethehem. By the mid 18th century, New England composers such 
 as William Billings and Daniel Read introduced choral music with a uni
 quely American sound (hymns and 'fugueing' tunes), street ballads cele
 brated the Boston Tea Party and Massachusetts Liberty, and New England
  dancing masters contributed fiddle tunes.'Play'd in Massachusetts' is
  a sort of 'tasting menu' of music heard in the Bay State. Beginning w
 ith the metrical Psalms of the Bay Psalter (the earliest book printed 
 in MA), to broadside ballads (one by Benjamin Franklin!) and English c
 ountry dances, we'll include music for a Moravian wedding celebration,
  a duo by Anne Ford for English guitar (a wire-strung plucked instrume
 nt) and flute, songs from Boston which fueled the Revolution, and a fl
 ute sonata by the Scottish General John Reid (who had planned to retir
 e in upstate NY until he ended up on the wrong side of the conflict).T
 he second half of the program will include both English imports which 
 were performed in America (a sonata for guitar and flute of J.C. Bach 
 and Irish & Scottish tunes set by Burk Thumoth) and music of Francis H
 opkinson, the first published American-born composer. A selection of s
 ongs and instrumental pieces published in the US (including an elegy f
 or George Washington) is framed with music performed by some of the ea
 rliest European virtuosi to tour the new nation (a duo for flute & gui
 tar by Vidal and our transcription of a quickstep of guitarist A.T. Hu
 erta). Some of this later repertoire may well have graced the parlour 
 of newly built Loring-Greenough House.     Meet the Eric and Chris 
 at afternoon tea following the program.The Sunday Afternoon at the ‘
 Greenough House series, now in its 13th season,  recreates the atmosp
 here of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Lor
 ing-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are availa
 ble at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members)
 . Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or 
 email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.\n\nFor more information visit http://ne
 ighborsforneighbors.org/events/pentimento-presents-play-d-in-massachus
 etts-american-music-from
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CATEGORIES:parlor, concert, and, tea
LOCATION:Loring-Greenough House,
WEBSITE:http://www.Loring-Greenough.org
URL:http://www.Loring-Greenough.org
CONTACT:617-524-3158
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