Frederick the Great by Menzel    • _Monday, April 25, 2022 at 7 PM at St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church in Tacoma_ • The above painting by Adolph von Menzel entitled "Flute Concert of Frederick the Great in Sanssouci"  provides a snapshot in 1752 of one of Frederick the Great's nightly evening concerts, and is a perfect depiction of what you will be experiencing at St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church on Monday evening! Included on the program are concerti both for harpsichord and flute by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Frederick’s court keyboardist seen seated at the harpsichord above, a concerto by the Prussian king’s illustrious flute teacher Johann Joachim Quantz  who listens, leaning against the wall to the right, and another by Frederick the Great II of Prussia himself, who stands in the middle playing a concerto, almost surely by himself or Quantz. Carl Philipp Emanuel's father Johann Sebastian Bach visited the court just a few years prior to the date of this painting and subsequently presented the king with his "Musical Offering", from which our special guest David Schrader from Chicago will play the "Ricercare a 3" for solo harpsichord, in addition to a harpsichord concerto in G Minor by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. (David's improvised cadenzas are always spectacular.) Jeffrey will play an exact replica of most likely the very flute Frederick plays in this portrait, today in the Library of Congress and copied by Rudolf Tutz of Innsbruck. Quantz made this flute for the king at an extremely low pitch (more than a whole tone low), at which the flute, not to mention the strings and harpsichord, sounds particularly sonorous. In Menzel's painting court composer Franz Benda plays violin with other court musicians on violin, viola and cello around him. Frederick's sister Wilhelmine of Bayreuth listens on the pink sofa, with court composer and violinist Carl Heinrich Graun standing to her right. We look forward to having you assume their positions in the painting and joining us on Monday! (Rest assured, the men who aren't playing an instrument may sit at St. Luke's.)    David Schrader ~ harpsichord    Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute    Elizabeth Phelps ~ baroque violin    Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin    Lindsey Strand-Polyak ~ baroque viola    Annabeth Shirley ~ baroque cello *Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great* *St. Luke's Memorial **Episcopal Church*   •  at 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma  • ~ Masks and vaccination required - thank you! ~ Suggested Donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering - everyone welcome)  •  18 and under FREE      ✣   please see www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>   ✣      ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ EMA // /The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be an affiliate organization of *Early Music America*, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America. /