Fri Jul 18 - Mon Jul 21 Music at Menlo presents Towards Bach Concert Program 1 Tel. 650.330.2030 Website

$10 - $70 Box Office: 650.330.2030

Description Just as no composer throughout the last 250 years has failed to acknowledge Johann Sebastian Bach’s profound influence on the very course of Western music, so did that Baroque master insatiably absorb the existing canon of Western music throughout his life and career. This season’s opening concert program begins with a sonata for two violins by Salamone Rossi—a transitional voice from the Renaissance to the Baroque period—composed more than half a century before Bach’s birth, and escalates towards Bach’s Fourth Brandenburg Concerto. Along the way are works by Giovanni Legrenzi (himself an important model from Bach’s early musical training), Henry Purcell, and Bach’s greatest contemporaries, Handel and Vivaldi. Together with Bach, these composers illuminate the musical firmament under which the Baroque period paved the way for the innovations to follow in the eighteenth century. Concert Program I: Towards Bach Salamone Rossi: Sonata no. 4 sopra l’aria dei Ruggiero (1623) Giovanni Legrenzi: Sonata “La Foscari” a due, op. 2 (1655) Henry Purcell: Fantasia upon One Note (1680) George Frideric Handel: Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV 207 (1724–27) Johann Sebastian Bach: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (“Wedding Cantata”), BWV 202 (before 1730) Antonio Vivaldi/Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto no. 1 in D Major, BWV 972 (1713–14), after Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 9 (arr. Kenneth Cooper) Johann Sebastian Bach: “Schafe können sicher weiden” (Sheep may safely graze), from Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208 (1713) Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 (1721) Performers Sooyun Kim flute Demarre McGill flute Kathryn Greenbank oboe Dennis Godburn bassoon Escher String Quartet Adam Barnett-Hart violin Wu Jie violin Pierre Lapointe viola Andrew Janss cello Erin Keefe violin Arnaud Sussmann violin Hsin-Yun Huang viola Laurence Lesser cello DaXun Zhang bass Kenneth Cooper harpsichord Celena Shafer soprano Friday, July 18 Prelude Performance* 5:30 p.m., Martin Family Hall, MenloSchool Free admission Encounter I: Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization, led by Stuart Isacoff 7:30 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School Tickets: $35 adult; $15 student :: Purchase Tickets » Saturday, July 19 Prelude Performance* 6:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Free admission Concert Program I: Towards Bach 8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Tickets: $50/$32 adult; $25/$10 student :: Purchase Tickets » Sunday, July 20 Repeat of Concert Program I 6:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student :: Purchase Tickets » Monday, July 21 Prelude Performance* 6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School Free admission Repeat of Concert Program I 8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student :: Purchase Tickets »

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