2024 Festival Programs
A Purcellian Banquet at the Baroque Café
Wednesday, July 17 — 5:30 pm
David’s Folly Farm
1390 Coastal Road, Brooksville
The majesty, wit, and tenderness of Purcell’s Restoration-era music are on full display in this feast of vocal and instrumental works for the theater, court, and chamber, presented in David’s Folly’s beautifully renovated barn. Refreshments are available for purchase.
Henry Purcell:
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art, Away
Incidental music from The Fairy Queen and King Arthur
Scene of the Drunken Poet
Trumpet Sonata in D
In Her Footsteps:
Women Composers of the Renaissance and Baroque
Thursday, July 18 — 7:30 pm
St Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church
330 Hinckley Ridge Road, Blue Hill
An intriguing survey of ravishing rarely-performed music by women composers from the Renaissance and Baroque eras including Settimia Caccini, Leonora Duarte, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
Festival Finale: St Matthew Passion
Saturday, July 20 — 7:00 pm
First Congregational Church of Blue Hill
22 Tenney Hill, Blue Hill
Bach’s masterful musical setting of the betrayal, trial, and crucifixion of Christ as told in the Gospel According to St Matthew, originally performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig during Good Friday services
JS Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Other Related Festival Events
Bach’s Lunch
Tuesday, July 16 — 12 noon
Barncastle Event Barn
125 South Street, Blue Hill
A lecture/demonstration about the Festival’s programs
with harpsichordist/tenor/conductor James Kennerley and members of the ensemble
Free admission — click to order a boxed lunch ahead of time from Barncastle
Master Class for Young String Players
Tuesday, July 16 — 7:00 pm
Bagaduce Music Performance Hall
49 South Street, Blue Hill
Baroque style and technique workshop, with Jude Ziliak and Anatole Wieck, violin. Admission free, string players interested in playing for the class may contact Blue Hill Bach for a slot
The English Baroque
Wednesday, July 17 — 10:30 am
Brooksville Free Public Library
1 Town House Rd, Brooksville
A presentation about Restoration-era compositional styles in late-17th and early-18th-century England, with harpsichordist Abraham Ross, along with members of the ensemble
Free admission
Women in Early Music
Friday, July 19 — 1:00 pm
Howard Room, Blue Hill Public Library
5 Parker Point Rd, Blue Hill
A lecture by the Juilliard School music historian Elizabeth Weinfield on the surprisingly extensive roles that women played in the musical culture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, both as performers and composers