BASICALLY BAROQUE
Festival Friday
June 17, 2022
Friday | 7:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House
Price Range $29 - $50
Duration 1hr 15min / Includes Intermission
The rhythms and textures that define Baroque music continue to inspire today’s composers, as evidenced in this delightfully diverse program. Accomplished jazz musician and new Festival faculty hornist Jeff Scott’s wind quintet, Startin’ Sumthin’, is a modern tribute to the energy of ragtime. The rich textures and vibrant colors of a 17th-century Venetian palazzo shine in Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Stucco & Brocatelle. Two Baroque masterpieces anchor the second half of this program. Travel back three centuries for the energizing virtuosity and soaring melodies of J.S. Bach’s glorious Double Violin Concerto, featuring Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Frautschi and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Concertmaster Margaret Batjer. The concert concludes with excerpts from Handel’s Water Music, written for performance as royal entertainment on the River Thames in 1717.
Program
JEFF SCOTT
Startin’ Sumthin’
- Anastasia Samsel, flute
- Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe
- Kean Xiong, clarinet
- Jeff Scott, horn
- Frank Morrelli, bassoon
SHAW
Stucco and Brocatelle
- Grigory Kalinovsky , violin
- Agatha Blevin, violin
- Harris Bernstein, viola
- Yuxuan Jin, viola
- Yejin Min, cello
- Matt Peralta, bass
- Michael Adcock, harpsichord
BACH
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
- Margaret Batjer, violin
- Jennifer Frautschi, violin
- Festival Orchestra
HANDEL
Suite from Water Music
- Festival Orchestra