Baroque Music Montana tours program of early 19th century German compositions
Baroque Music Montana will present “The German Theatre: Early Romantic String Quartets” with three local performances, January 9th to 11th, each beginning at 7:30pm. Big Sky Chapel will host a Thursday evening concert, moving to the intimate Cikan Residence on Friday and Bozeman’s Unitarian Universalist Church on Saturday.
The concerts will feature catchy tunes from the 1820s for string theatre troupe in arrangements from that age. Works include Weber’s famed Overture to Oberon, selections from a Marschner theatre production about a misbehaving vampire, and Schubert’s suave “Rosamunde” string quartet.
Led by violinist Carrie Krause, the program features outstanding local musicians Davina Clarke, violin, Tawyna Popoff, viola, and Sarah Stone, cello. The group will be performing with early bows and gut strings in a Baroque Music Montana debut of the unique stylistic conventions of the early romantic era. Drama, poetry and pathos abound!
Ticketing information for the local concerts, as well as other regional performances, is available at www.baroquemusicmontana.com.
Baroque Music Montana specializes in chamber music inspired by history. The musician roster rotates based on desired instrumentation for repertoire. Concerts are held in intimate spaces, for which the music was originally intended, and often on period instruments. Using historical instruments and referencing original manuscripts, iconography, and historical writing fuels Baroque Music Montana’s commitment to the music and inspires fresh interpretation. Rather than recreating something old, the aim is to make each performance of this day, of this space, existing because of these musicians and this audience. •