{"id":183907,"date":"2023-09-29T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=183907"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:35:05","slug":"sackville-festival-of-early-music-concerts-kick-off-tonight-after-a-week-of-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sackville-festival-of-early-music-concerts-kick-off-tonight-after-a-week-of-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville Festival of Early Music concerts kick off tonight, after a week of outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sackville Festival of Early Music kicks off a series of three public concerts tonight with L\u2019Harmonie des saisons at the Brunton Auditorium. But the musicians have already been busy this week, in locals schools and at Mount Allison, engaging young musicians and music lovers.<\/p>\n

CHMA spoke to festival director Linda Pearse to get the lowdown on the 19th season for the Sackville Festival of Early Music.<\/p>\n

For 19 years now, the Sackville Festival of Early Music (SFEM)<\/a> has celebrated Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, through performance, educational outreach, master class instruction, and amateur workshops.<\/p>\n

This weekend features three public concerts: On Friday night, Ensemble L\u2019Harmonie des saisons plays a program of Bach Concertos, and then on Saturday, Ensemble Constantinople presents a programme of early Indigenous musics entitled 'Breathings'. On Sunday afternoon, L\u2019Harmonie des Saisons returns for a concert featuring Mount Allison\u2019s new Klop continuo organ, a recent grant-funded acquisition.<\/p>\n

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Mount Allison University\u2019s new Klop continuo organ. Photo: Linda Pearse, SFEM<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWith this instrument, we can access so much more repertoire and our students get to have that opportunity to learn about historical performance practice,\u201d says Pearse. \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Klop organ is the second addition to Mount Allison's music department inspired and organized by the festival. Last year, the department acquired a harpischord<\/a> through a gift from a dedicated festival fan.<\/p>\n

The musicians of L\u2019Harmonie des Saisons have already been in the region all week, engaging with students at Salem Elementary School in Sackville and Sistema NB in Moncton. They also delivered a lecture-recital at Mount Allison on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Pearse says the educational mission of the SFEM is one of the things she loves about the festival. \u201cI love the possibility to connect the experience of performed music with curricular happenings in classrooms,\u201d says Pearse. \u201cWe often collaborate with faculty who are working on this period, but from a different lens,\u201d such as literature or history. And there\u2019s also the sheer joy of organizing concerts for the community. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of positive energy around this festival,\u201d says Pearse.<\/p>\n

While the Festival concerts are this weekend, a community engagement project called Aleotti: Now and Then will continue through October. The project involves recordings of three unique versions of a piece of music written by a renegade nun from the 16th century, named Raphaelle Aleotti. The pieces were then combined to create a musical installation in various spaces in Tantramar this month.<\/p>\n

The installation will travel from the Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory this weekend, to the Fog Forest Gallery, the Mount Allison University Chapel, the Sackville Visitor Information Centre, and Marshview Middle School by the final week of October. More details are available in the program booklet for this year\u2019s Sackville Festival of Early Music, and schedule and tickets for concerts are available at sackvilleearlymusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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