For Immediate Release
Bourbon Baroque: Louisville’s Period Instrument Ensemble John Austin Clark and Nicolas Fortin, Artistic Directors
Thunder and Dance
Saturday September 20, 2008 | 7:30 pm
Water Tower | 3005 River Road Louisville, Kentucky 40207
Caroline Copeland, Baroque Dancer
BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 1
Handel: Storm Arias
- Dopo l’orride procelle (Radamisto)
- Neghittosi, or voi che fate (Ariodante)
- Da tempeste il legno infranto (Giulio Cesare)
Telemann: La Putain
Back with a Bang
Bourbon Baroque Returns with Thunder and Dance
Bourbon Baroque: Louisville’s Period Instrument Ensemble is pleased to announce the opening project of its 2008-2009 season: Thunder and Dance. Artistic Directors John Austin Clark and Nicolas Fortin have conjured up a season of new and familiar works from the Baroque era with local arts groups such as The Kentucky Opera, Louisville Youth Choir, and Choral Arts Society. In keeping with its inaugural season’s intensity, Bourbon Baroque welcomes guest artists aplenty along with its local early music core group. Works on the menu for this season include: Telemann’s Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comachos (KY Opera); C.P.E Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D Major; J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Choral Arts Society); and a repeat performance of Boccherini’s Stabat Mater.
Thunder and Dance will feature two Louisville premiere guest artists: Megan Hart, soprano; and Caroline Copeland, baroque dancer. Soprano Megan Hart will prepare a set of Handel “storm” arias featuring texts that cast lightening down from the heavens, beckon clouds of darkness, and conjure up winds from the desolate sea. Baroque Dancer Caroline Copeland prepares a rarely performed Telemann orchestral suite La Putain . Ms. Copeland brings her original choreography based on codified 18th century dance notation with a modern twist. Her sultry, sensuous interpretation of this suite’s dances will surely leave the audience understanding completely what was on Telemann’s mind as he composed each syncopation. Ms. Copeland’s appearance will also spark additional educational workshops at local professional and educational institutions. Also on the program: J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. I .
The Water Tower will turn into a room of unprecedented sights and sounds as Ms. Hart and Ms. Copeland along with Bourbon Baroque perform an evening to remember with new and familiar gems from the Baroque era. For more information please contact Bourbon Baroque at (502) 614-7178.
Bourbon Baroque opener a heady delight | September 22, 2008
"Every good concert needs a conceit, a theme, an irresistible hook. For Bourbon Baroque, the Louisville period-instrument orchestra that opened its new season Saturday night at the Water Tower, that come-on was the potent melding of music and dance intrinsic to early 18th-century life."
Courier Journal | Reporter Andrew Adler can be reached at (502) 582-4668. | Click Here for full article
