We regret to inform you that, due to COVID-19, we will be postponing our concerts until next season. Please check back in August or September for an update.

Love Letters

Sunday November 10, 3 PM @ United Lutheran



Love Letters is a program of love poetry in both musical and spoken form. Emma Rose Lynn (soprano), Alex Abrams (baroque cello), Margret Gries (harpsichord) and Geoff Ridden (from Ashland’s Classic Readings Theater Company) reveal many perspectives on love from seventeenth century sources. Emma sings early seventeenth-century songs by Purcell and Monteverdi, including the well-known tunes Sweeter than Roses and If Music be the Food of Love. We also have some gems with especially provocative texts that we’ve recovered from the archive, including “Jealousy!” and “What can we Poor Women Do?” The music will be balanced with Geoff’s much-admired ability to bring Shakespeare’s words to life in his strong English accent!



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United Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington, Eugene, Map/Directions

Musica Secreta: Improvisation and Affect in the court of Ferrara

Sunday February 23, 3 PM @ United Lutheran



Emma Rose Lynn, Bethany Battafarano and Alyse Jameson present the music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi as sung by the famous Ladies of Ferrara: sopranos Laura Peverara, Livia d’Arco, and Anna Guarini. During the late decades of the 16th century, the stories of this “concerto delle dame” brought listeners from far and wide across Italy to hear the rapturous improvisations and ornamentations of three intertwined female voices. The ladies’ moving performances inspired volumes of poetry dedicated to their voices, spurred composers such as Gesualdo and Monteverdi to write music inspired by the ensemble’s artistry, and listeners were reportedly delighted by poetry readings as well as solos, duets, and trios for three sopranos with live improvisations. Continuo for this program provided by Margret Gries, harpsichord, and Anson Brown, lute.



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United Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington, Eugene, Map/Directions

Frederick the Great: Musical Monarch

Sunday March 1, 3 PM @ United Lutheran

Sunday March 8, 3 PM @ First Presbyterian Church (Corvallis)



Frederick the Great was not only a statesman who ruled the Kingdom of Prussia for forty-six years, but also an excellent flutist and composer. As a patron of the arts and enthusiastic performer, Frederick held regular evening concerts in the music room at Sanssouci. Our program showcases music very likely performed at these concerts, including works written by Frederick himself. We’ve also programmed sonatas by some of the favorite composers at the Prussian court, including chamber works by Frederick’s flute teacher Johann Joachim Quantz. Our performers include Kimary Fick, traverso, Ryan Ponto, viola da gamba, Ben Gardner, baroque violin, Margret Gries, harpsichord.



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United Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington, Eugene, Map/Directions

First Presbyterian Church, 114 SW 8th St, Corvallis, Map/Directions









L’Accademia Italiana

Sunday March 29, 3 PM @ Church of the Resurrection



In the early modern era, Italian academies served as important centers for inspiration and the cultivation of humanistic ideas. Within their literal and figurative walls, artists, writers, composers, intellectuals, and noble amateurs gathered to present and discuss their latest creations. Music was a fundamental component of these meetings, performances of which frequently raised the questions, “what is music’s function in the universe, can it really move the passions of the soul, and if so, how?” In this concert we invite you to step into the world of the early modern academy and explore with us our own questions, “what music could academy members expect to hear, and what might they have thought of these ‘new’ and affective sounds?



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Church of the Resurrection, 3925 Hilyard St, Eugene OR 97405

The Art of Division

Sunday May 17, 3 PM @ Church of the Resurrection



One of the particular musical pleasures of the early seventeenth century was the ability of Italian musicians to improvise ‘divisions’ on well-known melodies. Polyphonic chansons from the mid-16th century provided material for a practice where the performer would play many fast notes to fill in the spaces between pitches of the melody. This “division” of space between melodic pitches generated the place for artistry, grace and beauty in performance. Many solo instruments have a tradition of divisions, but those played on cornetto perhaps come closest to replicating vocal gestures. Our cornettist Chuck Colburn is accompanied by Margret Gries at the Brombaugh organ. A similar tradition of improvisation is part of the organist’s training, and in this program you’ll hear examples of this practice for keyboards. Margret will also perform music of Frescobaldi on a harpsichord with ‘divided’ keys, allowing two possible pitch options for some notes. (For example for the half step above F there are two ‘black’ keys, one tuned to F sharp and one to G flat.) This program is also the inaugural concert for her new harpsichord with pedals.



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Church of the Resurrection, 3925 Hilyard St, Eugene OR 97405

Music in the Reign of the Sun King

Friday June 5, 7:30 PM @ United Lutheran (** please note Friday evening performance **)

Sunday June 7, 3 PM @ First Presbyterian Church (Corvallis)



The mask of a golden sun with radiating beams was the emblem chosen by Louis XIV to suggest a symbolic connection Apollo, the god of peace and the arts. This reference was reinforced as the king danced the roles of Apollo in the court ballets, and established a hierarchy of power at the court. The king’s musical taste was conservative, dismissing the expressivity of Italian music at that time and emphasizing his own love of refinement and restraint. Our program presents compositions from the time of his reign (1643 to 1715) and highlights the dignity and grace of the French style. Featured performers include Emma Rose Lynn (soprano) Marc Vanscheeuwijck (cello), Kimary Fick (traverso), Margret Gries (harpsichord) and David Greenberg (baroque violin). Greenberg, well-known internationally as a baroque violinist and fiddler in the Cape Breton tradition, has relocated from Halifax to Corvallis. You can read about his musical activities at www.davidgreenbergviolinist.com.



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United Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington, Eugene, Map/Directions

First Presbyterian Church, 114 SW 8th St, Corvallis, Map/Directions









The English Verse Anthem

Sunday June 14, 3 PM @ Church of the Resurrection