Galanterie: The Twilight of the Lute March 7, 2009

Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Department of Music Chamber Series presents Galanterie: The Twilight of the Lute, featuring John Schneiderman, lecturer of music at UCI.

Galanterie specializes in the wonderfully rich and rarely heard 18th-century repertoire for lute and strings. Galanterie presents music by students of the great Silvius Leopold Weiss: Johann Kropffganss and Adam Falckenhagen, as well as works by Viennese masters Franz Joseph Haydn and Karl Kohaut. This unique, beautiful, virtuosic and sometimes quirky literature has one foot in the baroque period and the other in the classical. Led by lutenist/guitarist Schneiderman, this ensemble features one of North America’s foremost baroque violinists, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and baroque cellist William Skeen, a rising young star on the early music scene.

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