Week One

BENEFIT CONCERT- BAROQUE BONANZA
Saturday, July 31, 6:30 pm
Atlantic Golf Club

Please help support BCMF by joining us for our annual Benefit – a wonderful evening of great music with fine wine and food at the elegant Atlantic Golf Club. You can download our Benefit Invitation and Reply Card for information or call Derek Delaney at 212-741-9073. Your support enables us to bring these wonderful musicians to the East End every summer. We hope you can join us!

“Sheep May Safely Graze” at the Atlantic Golf Club—perhaps helping keep the fairways closely trimmed? This beloved melody started out in a Bach cantata, and here it joins other charmed cantata excerpts plus the composer’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, the first concerto ever to spotlight a keyboard instrument as featured soloist. Also on the program is a late-Renaissance English song by John Dowland and a scintillated work by Bach’s contemporary Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi’s A-minor Concerto for Two Violins is a keystone in the collection he titled L’estro armonico, “The Breath of Harmonic Inspiration”—an apt name for music as inspired as this.

Program

J.S. BACH
Brandenburg No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
J.S. BACH
Schafe können sicher weiden from Cantata No. 208
J.S. BACH
Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Cantata No. 147
DOWLAND
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
VIVALDI
Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins, RV 522

Artists

Marya Martin, Karen Gomyo, Ani Kavafian, Jessica Lee, Jesse Mills, Choong-Jin Chang,
Christian Poltéra, Jeffrey Beecher, Paolo Bordignon, Randall Scarlata