/Amorous nightingales!: Respond to our voices with the sweetness of your warblings! Pay the most tender homage to the sacredness that reigns in our woods! May this beautiful day promise happy moments, may we stop at the shores with pleasure, as the shepherds go here to celebrate Spring and the birds already announce the festival! See the flighty gentle breeze and the light butterfly: each flower receives the reverence of their fleeting love /("Rossignols Amoureux", "Que ce beau jour" and "Ce Ruisseau" by *Toussaint* *Bordet*)*/./*/Plaintive warblers! Startled linnet! /(*François Couperin*). — _A Celebration of Spring and Rebirth!_ No music is more sublime than *Johann Sebastian Bach*'s central aria from the Easter Oratorio, and Orpheus's passionate expression of his love for Eurydice which shakes the very foundations of the Underworld and prompts Hades to release her from death in *Clerambault*'s "Orphée". In "Singe, Seele" *Handel* professes "Soul, sing praises to God, who so gloriously adorned the whole world; who refreshes us through the sound of music and charms us through sight, when He makes the tree and field bloom." and in “Flammende Rose”, "Flaming rose, earth’s adornment, enchanting splendor of radiant gardens! Eyes which behold your excellence must, amazed at such loveliness, confess that you are a creation of the divine."  - Johann Sebastian Bach —"Seele, deine Spätzereien" from the Easter Oratorio  - Johann Sebastian Bach —Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021  - Georg Frideric Handel —“Singe, Seele” & “Flammende Rose” from 9 German Arias  - Toussaint Bordet —Rossignols Amoureux, Que ce beau jour and Ce Ruisseau  - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault —"Orphée” (complete cantata)  - François Couperin —"Les Fauvétes Plaintives" & "La Linote-éfarouchée" (plaintive warblers and startling linnets)      ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ Monday eve, April 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM:  • *Airs for Spring* (Springtime baroque!) •   — Arwen Myers (soprano)   — Elisabeth Wright (harpsichord)   — Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) *St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church *3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma   — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma     ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ *Our guests:* Soprano *ARWEN MYERS* performs early and modern repertoire with many of the nation’s premiere ensembles including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific MusicWorks, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Seraphic Fire, Bach Akademie Charlotte and Bach Collegium San Diego and has enjoyed working with such notable conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, David Fallis, John Butt, David Hill, Scott Allen Jarrett, Erick Lichte and Matthew Dirst. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Arwen holds advanced degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Alan Bennett and Patricia Brooks Havranek. Based in Portland, Oregon, she is Executive and Co-Artistic Director of Northwest Art Song. Harpsichordist*ELISABETH WRIGHT* has taught for almost 4 decades at Indiana University School of Music and as one of America's most highly respected harpsichordists has made many recordings, having collaborated with innumerable artists of international renown. Springtime Baroque       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival at St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Churchin Tacoma: — Monday, April 8at 7:00 PM    • Springtime Baroque •   soprano Arwen Myers, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan — Monday, May 6 at 7:00 PM    • Psalms (1620) & Irish (1720) & Folksong (1820) •   Oleg Timofeyev on renaissance lute and 7-string guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on renaissance, baoque and 8-keyed flutes — Monday, May 27 at 7:00 PM    • Baroque Concerti•   harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie, violinists Carrie Krause, Elisabeth Phelps and Courtney Kuroda, violist Victoria Gunn, cellist Martin Bonham & Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute — Monday, June 24 at 7:00 PM:    • The 18th-Century Harpsichord in Spain •    Irene Roldan, solo harpsichord — Monday, July 1 at 7:00 PM     • Johann Sebastian Bach •   harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ ✣  ✷    -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - -  -  -  -  -  -  - Donate: https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate.html Donations may be mailed to: Salish Sea Early Music Festival 13113 S Wildwood Lane Anacortes, WA 98221 *****Early Music America***** /The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is pleased to be an affiliate organization of Early Music America, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America./