PURCELL 2 Hornpipes from King Arthur – APOLLO'S FIRE, Jeannette Sorrell
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Henry Purcell
Two Hornpipes from King Arthur
This is an excerpt from the live performance of "RESILIENCE: Music for Troubled Times"
Performed October 10, 2020 at First Baptist Church.
APOLLO'S FIRE
Jeannette Sorrell, Artistic Director
Kathie Stewart, Recorder
Olivier Brault, violin
Susanna Perry Gilmore, violin
Emi Tanabe, violin
Andrew Fouts, viola
Rebecca Landell Reed, viola da gamba
Brian Kay, baroque guitar
RESILIENCE – Music for Troubled Times
London, 1665: A year-long plague held the city in its grip, but haunting folk ballads and laments of Dowland and Purcell wafted from the windows of empty streets. Two centuries later, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery could not prevent Americans – black and white – from singing in joyous harmony at the end of the Civil War. In this new program from Jeannette Sorrell, 12 musicians conjure up these two historic pandemics through music, diaries and poems as we celebrate the resilience of the hum