Festival Schedule:

SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2024

3:00 PM: DAVID GREENBERG: MULTIPLE VOICES FOR ONE
SCOTTISH, CAPE BRETON, AND BAROQUE MUSIC FOR VIOLIN

Multiple Voices for One

Historically informed arrangements with creative twists
David Greenberg, Baroque & Octave violins

McG & G
Minuet in A with variations — William McGibbon (1690-1756), arr. D Greenberg
Grateful for These Gifts waltzing air — David Greenberg (b. 1965)

Sleepy Maggie’s Messenger
Allemande & Double — J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 1 in B minor
Mo Chuachag Laghach [The Gentle Milkmaid] — old Scottish/Cape Breton reel
Sleepy Maggie reel — trad, Cape Breton setting
Sleepy Maggie reel — set by James Oswald, The Caledonia Pocket Companion (1747)
Messenger Reel — Owen Greenberg (b. 1993) & D. Greenberg

Gloomy & Enthralled
Lord Balgonie’s Favorite air — from Niel Now (1727-1807), A Fourth Coll. of Strathspey Reels (1800)
Adagio — J.S. Bach, Sonata No. 2 in A minor
Enthralled  — Oliver Schroer (1956-2008)

Barbara’s
Barbara’s Reverse Passacaille — D. Greenberg, written for Barbara Butler of Nova Scotia

Susan’s Klezmer Corrente
Corrente — J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor
Susan’s Reel — D. Greenberg

John’s a-Jivin’
Sarabande & Gigue — J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor
Deer John, A Cautionary Tail bluesy tune — D. Greenberg

Allemande Joy
Allemande — J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor
Joy Go With My Love jig — Neil Stewart collection (1761)
Andrew Carr slip jig — Niel Gow, The Complete Repository collection (1799)
Marching to Mimbastica march — D. Greenberg
Doug MacPhee’s Reel — D. Greenberg

Savage Sarabande
Sarabande — J.S. Bach, Partita No. 1 in B minor
Mrs. Savage’s Whim triple hornpipe — Young’s Dancing Master vol. 1 (1713)
Young Damon’s Flight triple hornpipe — Young’s Dancing Master vol. 2 (1718)

Biber Passacaglia
Passacaglia in G minor — Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704), Mystery Sonatas

VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46204

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024

7:30 PM: MUSICA FICTA: ASTROS, LUCES, RAYOS (STARS, LIGHTS, LIGHTNING)
ARIAS AND ART SONGS BY SEBASTIÁN DURÓN (1660-1716)

Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) was arguably the most important Spanish composer of the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. His output of theater music — especially his comedies and zarzuelas — enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime, and many of his works are found in music archives in the Americas: Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru. His music reflects the vitality and cheerfulness of Spanish popular music, which by that time had already assimilated music elements coming from the Americas. This concert program brings to light art songs (both secular tonos humanos and sacred tonos divinos) recently unearthed which have never before been recorded, as well as instrumental pieces by Durón himself and his contemporaries.

Jairo Serrano, tenor, percussion
Andrés Silva, tenor
Carlos Serrano, recorders, pipe & tabor
Julián Navarro, baroque guitar
Edwin García, theorbo, baroque guitar
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord

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VENUE: THE BASILE OPERA CENTER
ADDRESS: ?4011 N. PENNSYLVANIA STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46205

SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024

3:00 PM: RELIC: AT THE TEMPLE OF JUNO

In five musical chapters, Relic honors the goddess Juno and all she represents: love, fury, devotion, youthfulness, and vitality.

Works of Corelli, Handel, and Purcell.

Aniela Eddy, violin
Tomà Iliev, violin
Natalie Rose Kress, violin
Kako Miura, violin
Rebecca Nelson, violin
Chiara Fasani Stauffer, violin
Cullen O’Neil, cello
Sue Yelanjian, double bass
Georgeanne Banker, bassoon
Robert Warner, harpsichord
Menglin Gao, theorbo
Cameron Welke, theorbo

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VENUE: THE BASILE OPERA CENTER
ADDRESS: ?4011 N. PENNSYLVANIA STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46205

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2024

7:30 PM: THE STORY OF PA I SHA
PRESENTED BY THE BACH & BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCE

Presented by The Bach & Beethoven Experience, The Story of Pa I Sha is a through-composed work of Brandi Berry Benson’s original settings and arrangements of hymns, social dances, and traditional songs from the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations interwoven with English and Choctaw narration.

Rachael Youngman, narrator & vocalist (tribal affiliation: Choctaw)
Leighann Daihl Ragusa, Native American flute, and traverso
Brandi Berry Benson, BBE Artistic Director and period violin (tribal affiliation: Chickasaw)
Kiyoe Matsuura, period viola
Erica Rubis, period cello
Michaela Marchi, Chickasaw/Choctaw indigenous percussion (tribal affiliation: Isleta Pueblo)

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VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202

SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2024

3:00 PM: SONNAMBULA: PASSING FANCY

This program features music written by composers forced to hide their identities (either social, religious, ethnic, or racial) while working within the structures of European high culture during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. We will consider the beauty of William Byrd (1540–1623) and Richard Dering (c. 1580–1630), two Catholic composers writing illicit church music in Protestant England; Leonora Duarte (1610–1678), a Jewish woman composing in the home while forced to live as a converso, or New Christian, in 17th-century Antwerp; composers under the patronage of Victoria della Rovere (1622–1694) Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who notoriously subjected those close to her to conversion; Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729) and other women composers at the court of Louis XIV whose lost works reemerge with a vengeance in our own time; and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772–1838), a German composer of Czech descent, who struggled to establish his mark in the midst of the Napoleonic era, when nationalistic tensions ran high. The voices we will hear in this program continue in our day to be locked behind unjust historical ignorance, rendered silent by gendered language, or forgotten amidst the shifting priorities of classical performance.

Toma Iliev, violin
Jude Ziliak, violin
Amy Domingues, tenor viol
Elizabeth Weinfield, tenor viol / direction
Matt Zucker, bass viol
James Kennerley, harpsichord & tenor

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VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2024

7:30: JOSEFIEN STOPPELENBURG & ARS MUSICA CHICAGO: VOCAL FIREWORKS
WORKS OF HANDEL, VIVALDI, HASSE, ISABELLA LEONARDA, ET AL.

Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg joins members of Ars Musica Chicago for a program of ‘Vocal Fireworks’ that is sure to dazzle and delight. Experience Josefien’s vocal pyrotechnics in virtuoso cantatas, arias, and motets by Handel, Vivaldi, Hasse and Leonarda, alongside instrumental works for lute, violin, cello, and harpsichord.

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano
Emi Tanabe, baroque violin
Anna Steinhoff, baroque cello
Brandon Acker, theorbo and guitar
Jason Moy, harpsichord

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VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2024

11:00 AM (FREE FAMILY SHOW): THE INDIANAPOLIS FESTIVAL BAND & ALCHYMY VIOLS: ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES

AGNES COAKLEY, SOPRANO
OLIVIA CASTOR, HARP

This concert features the original tunes that inspired Bach, Holst, Respighi, Smetana, and Vaughn Williams; including the original song that serves as the basis for one of our most popular Christmas carols, another song that is the basis for the Israeli National Anthem, and the tune that had more English ballad texts sung to it than any other! A veritable greatest hits of the Renaissance!

IEMF Festival Band

Mark Cudek, director, plucked strings, percussion
Robert Bolyard, viols
Olivia Castor, harp
Agnes Coakley, soprano
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Sarah Shodja, recorders and whistle

Alchymy Viols

Joanna Blendulf
Wendy Gillespie
Erica Rubis
Philip Spray

VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202

SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2024

3:00 PM: THE INDIANAPOLIS FESTIVAL BAND & ALCHYMY VIOLS: ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES

AGNES COAKLEY, SOPRANO
OLIVIA CASTOR, HARP

This concert features the original tunes that inspired Bach, Holst, Respighi, Smetana, and Vaughn Williams; including the original song that serves as the basis for one of our most popular Christmas carols, another song that is the basis for the Israeli National Anthem, and the tune that had more English ballad texts sung to it than any other! A veritable greatest hits of the Renaissance!

IEMF Festival Band

Mark Cudek, director, plucked strings, percussion
Robert Bolyard, viols
Olivia Castor, harp
Agnes Coakley, soprano
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Sarah Shodja, recorders and whistle

Alchymy Viols

Joanna Blendulf
Wendy Gillespie
Erica Rubis
Philip Spray

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VENUE: INDIANA HISTORY CENTER
ADDRESS: 450 WEST OHIO STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202

Fest Date: June 2 - 14, 2024

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