Washington Early Music Festival: 2004 Schedule



Homepage About the Festival About the Performers About the Washington Early Music Society Festival Schedule Photo Album WEMF In The News		Washington Early Music Festival June 6, 11-13, 17-20, 2004 The Washington Early Music Society is pleased to present a new event this summer for lovers of early music, dance and visual arts -- the inaugural Washington Early Music Festival. It will be held during the first 3 weekends in June: June 6, 11-13, and 17-20. Each year the Festival will focus on one nation's culture which made a significant contribution to the music composed before 1750; for this first festival, the featured country is England. *Music for the Coronation of George II: Handel Coronation Anthems, Music of Purcell, Tallis, and Gibbons* Chantry and Modern Musick Sunday, June 6, 3:00 p.m. St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 619 Tenth St., NW, Washington, DC (Metro Center and Gallery Place Metro. Validated parking at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H St. NW, subject to space availability.) All-Day Workshop Early Music Youth Friday, June 11, all day St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, 5450 Massachusetts Ave., Bethesda, MD Concert Early Music Youth Friday, June 11, 7:30 PM St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, 5450 Massachusetts Ave., Bethesda, MD From Bede to Byrd The Suspicious Cheese Lords Sunday, June 13, 3:00 p.m. Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St., NE, Washington, DC The Bentside Spinet: Keyboard Music of Byrd, Bull & Handel Atsuko Ikeda, harpsichordist Thursday, June 17, noon St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC English Baroque: Town and Country Ensemble Gaudior Thursday June 17, 7:30 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC And All That Bull: Early English Music for Organ Keith Reas, organist Friday, June 18, noon St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC Voices, Viols & Virginal Vera Kochanowsky, virginal, with members of Carmina and The Chesapeake Viol Consort Friday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC For Hys Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts: Brass music by Henry VIII and Brade The Washington Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble Saturday, June 19, 3:00 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC Sumer is Icumen In: The Flowering of Music in Early England Armonia Nova Saturday, June 19, 7:30 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC The Food of Love: Early Instrumental Music from the British Isles Scott Reiss of Hesperus, recorder, with Ronn McFarlane, lute Sunday, June 20, 3:00 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, 3rd & A Sts., SE, Washington, DC