Hello!
This Friday I will be leading the PRS in 17th-century music dance music from France and Germany. The theme of the program is The Big Picture (or you can't get lost if you only have to count to 1).
 

Dance music of the 17th century often appears simple and uncomplicated but is really filled with life, energy, and rhythmic vitality, once we learn to see the Big Picture. In the big picture we'll transform one phrase into one enormous slow beat, giving the pieces a new musical freedom.

 

The French music will be ballet music from Marc-Antoine Charpentier's (1643-1704) music from his tragédie en musique David et Jonathas, 1688.

 

The German dance music will be one or two suites from Johann Hermann Schein's (1586-1630) Banchetto Musicale, 1617.

 

French baroque music is filled with just as much passion and energy as any Italian, German, English, or Latvian composition.  The only difference is the more subtle delivery of the French musical rhetoric. Schein's music let's us explore the transitional nature of his dance music. The older dance forms, like the Paduoana and Galiarda, are heard next to the more modern dances, the Courante and Allemande. Each dance comes with its own personality and set of subtle rhythmic complexities (but easy to count).

Looking forward to it!
Kim Pineda
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Biographical information:

Kim Pineda has performed on historical flutes, recorders, and as a conductor throughout the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder of the Seattle-based Baroque Northwest ensemble, he performs regularly with leading early music ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical labels. He works professionally in chamber music settings with Matthias Maute, Janet See, Jed Wentz,  Ellen Hargis, Laurie Monahan, and Margriet Tindemans, among others, and has also performed under the orchestral direction of Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, John Holloway, and Jeffrey Thomas.

 

Now a PhD student in musicology at the University of Oregon, Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, USC, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and directs Baroque Northwest's Baroque Flute Boot Camp in Seattle. Other interests include the culinary, martial, and healing arts, cycling, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction.

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