Anacortes Early Music Series: On the Fritz – Romantic Masterworks
$30 (students age 18 & under free); cash or check at the door
- Page Smith, cello
- Tamara Friedman, fortepiano
Ludwig van Beethoven — Selected works
Franz Schubert — Selected works
Frédéric Chopin — Selected works
Robert Schumann — Selected works
Page Smith, principal violoncellist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, on an instrument modeled after a 1730 Sanctus Seraphin cello, and Tamara Friedman, playing her versatile replica of an 1814 Johann Fritz fortepiano, offer a robust concert of variations, sonatas, and character pieces by Haydn and Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann.
In addition to her principal role at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ms. Smith served as principal cellist for the Northwest Chamber Orchestra for 25 years, and the Auburn Symphony for 10 years. Ms. Friedman, a resident of La Conner, is a widely regarded concert pianist in the Pacific Northwest, and curates a collection of 18th- and 19th-century keyboard instruments at the Skagit Early Keyboard Museum.
About Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
The Anacortes Early Music Concert Series has brought historically informed performances featuring world-renowned musicians and rising stars to Anacortes for over a decade. Historically informed performance (period performance) is an approach in Western music which adheres to the knowledge, as it is currently known, of the instruments and performance practice of the period in which the music was conceived. Access to examples of earlier musical instruments and historical treatises are the basis on which period performance is formed. Instruments corresponding to the period of the music being performed are used, as well as technique and aesthetics of the period. Anacortes Early Music is a project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation.
https://www.anacortesartsfoundation.org/events.html