HANDEL AT HOME

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012, 3:00

Oregon Bach Collegium

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012, 3:00 at United Lutheran Church, 2230 Washington Street, Eugene. HANDEL AT HOME, a concert of chamber music presented by members of the Oregon Bach Collegium.

Tickets at the door $10 general admission, $5 students.

For more information, email Oregon Bach Collegium
 
The repertoire for this program is taken from the variety of publications by the London publisher John Walsh, who took full advantage of Handel’s growing popularity. Walsh brought forth a steady stream of solo and trio sonatas with continuo, as well as harpsichord suites and arrangements of his best-loved operatic arias. After the overwhelming success of Handel’s first Italian operas for the London stage, the public’s appetite for his music became well-nigh insatiable. Walsh continued to press Handel for instrumental works to satisfy this burgeoning market, and set his musical craftsmen to create arrangements of his most popular tunes. Observing the profitable commerce in his music, Handel quipped to Walsh “Next time, YOU write the opera and I will publish it!” The Oregon Bach Collegium members have chosen several gems from these collections, all geared toward professional musicians who entertained the lovers of music in their homes. Performers include Michael Sand, baroque violin, Marc Vanscheeuwijck, baroque ‘cello, Margret Gries, harpsichord, Nancy Elliot, recorder, Dave Rogers, archlute and Jim, Rich, recorder, baroque oboe and voice.