Wednesday, May 3, 2017

RochesterCityNewspaper.com: May 5 & 6 Publick Musick performs violin sonata by "Afro-French virtuoso violinist, composer, and fencing master le Chevalier de Saint-Georges"


Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
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Steven Zohn, Baroque Flutist
 

CLASSICAL | "Paris Salon" 

For its concerts this weekend, Publick Musick will recreate a Paris salon, with an array of elegantly-turned music, including one of the so-called "Paris Quartets" by Georg Philipp Telemann, a cello sonata by Jean Barrière, and a violin sonata by an especially interesting character: the Afro-French virtuoso violinist, composer, and fencing master le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. 
 
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Publick Musick will present "Paris Salon" on Friday, May 5, 7:30 p.m., at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 28 Lincoln Avenue, Pittsford; and Saturday, May 6, 8 p.m., at Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Avenue. $20 general; students and low income, $10; Free for those 17 and under. publickmusick.org.
 
 

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