Hans-Juergen Schnoor********Jeffrey Cohan******************
Sunday evening, March 10 at 7:00 PM • please forward
• Bach Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord •
Hans-Jürgen Schnoor ~ harpsichord
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
~ Bach! Yes! Please join us tomorrow at St. Luke's.
— Elizabeth Courtney, MUSIC IN VICTORIA • http://islandnet.com/miv/
“The audience was extremely appreciative, yet such was the
virtuosity and technical brilliance of Hans Jürgen Schnoor and Jeffrey
Cohan, combined with a spell-binding understatement, I couldn't be
quite sure I hadn't dreamed it all.
“A world of tender and brilliant magic ... A music so refined, it
draws and draws, yet never swamps the senses.
“...The enormous presence of Mr. Schnoor as he covered the entire
instrument with his solo statement, creating a universe of sound, was
immediately apparent...Schnoor's heightening intensity of pure invention
compelled every hair follicle of attention.” [J.S. Bach for the Early
Music Society of the Islands, 2014]
— Joan Reinthaler, THE WASHINGTON POST
“Chamber Music In the Key of We" (headline)
“[Cohan and Shangrow] give new meaning to the intimacy implicit in
the genre of chamber music... They have forged not only an exquisitely
subtle collaboration but also a common scholarly interpretation of how
Bach would have had the music performed. They responded intuitively to
each other's rhythmic elasticity and echoed each other's elaborate
ornamentations with what sounded like spontaneous inspiration... Almost
as impressive was the silent attentiveness that their musicmaking commanded.
“Bach may have been composing for a soft instrument with a very
limited dynamic range, but the music he produced was exuberant, joyous
and lyrical. It was these qualities that Cohan and Shangrow communicated...”
—BURGDORFER TAGBLATT Burgdorf, Switzerland
“Jeffrey Cohan interpreted Bach's music entirely in accordance
with its inherent character, flexibly and yet without affect-seeking
intentions. Exaggeration of feeling was absent. —Whenever a sound, a
melodic bridge, touched the hearts, it was the result of skillfully
accentuated phrasing and of a dynamic development of line.”
/**/ /Please note our remaining 2019 performances through June at
www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma
// All concerts take place at
/St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church/
3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma//
• suggested donation $15, $20 or $25 • 18 and under free /