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We started off the 2009-10 season with our ChamberPalooza performance. Hope you got the chance to see us at the Cincinnati Art Museum in September. Our theme was "animals in music"! Harold played a terrific "Sonata Representativa" by Biber, accompanied by Micah and Rod; this humorous piece from 1669 featured the sounds of a giant bullfrog, a cat, a nightingale, a cuckoo, a hen, a rooster and a quail. Carrying on our animal theme, we also performed "The Marriage of the Hen and the Cuckoo" by Marco Uccelini- the feathers were flying in the final galliard as the hen and the cuckoo took off on their honeymoon!

Our Coming Performance on March 16

Our next performance is Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM when we are featured on the Music Live at Lunch series at Christ Church Cathedral 318 East 4th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202-4299;
Info at: (513) 621-1817

You will hear most of our group in this concert. Performers will be Barbara Lambert (flute), Micah Fusselman (cello), Nina Key-Campbell (harpsichord) and Rod Stucky (archlute) in a program titled: "Trios for 4: Music for Flute, Cello, Archlute and Harpsichord. " We'll be playing music of Jacques Morel, G. P. Telemann and Jean-Pierre Guignon.


Please come back to Christ Church on April 27, 2010 to hear our Apollo's Cabinet member Harold Byers and Sandra Rivers play music for violin and piano.



Some program notes

Jacques Morel's Chaconne en trio in G Major was written in 1709, when he was about 19. Not much is known about Jacques Morel (c.1690-1740) except that he was a viol player, who studied with Marin Marais. This chaconne is from his first book of pieces for the viol, published in 1710. A chaconne is a set of variations on a ground. Chaconne's tend to build excitement and impetus as the variations pass between the solo cello and flute, while the continuo instruments (archlute and harpsichord) persist with the 4 bar ground sequence. Come along for the ride!



G.P. Telemann's (1681-1767) Trio Sonata in D Major highlights the composer's skill at ornamentation, beautiful melodies and counterpoint. Instead of using the gamba or cello as a continuo instrument, the cello part becomes a solo part of a trio texture. The flute, cello, and continuo each perform a separate part, which is why we call this a "trio", but since the "basso continuo" can be reinforced by several instruments, plucking, strumming or tinkling (the harpsichord) on the same part, here our trio becomes a quartet with archlute and harpsichord playing continuo. Movements are: Largo-Vivace-Dolce-Vivace

Telemann's music series called "Esserzici musici" or "musical exercises", was a series of sonatas which included solos for flute, oboe, viola da gamba and harpsichord, and then combined them in trio sonatas for these instruments.

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Jean Pierre Guignon was born Giovanni Pietro Ghignone on 10 February 1702 in Torino, Italy and died as Jean Pierre Guignon on 30 January 1774 at Versailles near Paris, France. As did many Italian musicians, Guignon capitalized on France's admiration of Italian music and musicians by travelling to Paris around 1725. He performed at the French court from 1733 until 1762. In 1741 he was appointed as "Roy des violons" (King of the violins, or "the king's violins". Guignon was a brilliant violin virtuoso, whose compositions were mostly sonatas and duos for the violin. Our featured Sonata in A Major is a lovely sonata when played on the flute. Other links: