// Louis XIV /Tacoma •  2019 /Salish Sea/ Early Music Festival ///**///////*LOUIS XIV*////////// ////// // ////• /Thursday, January 16 at 7 PM •///// St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church// ///3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma // Anna Marsh This Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:00 PM • AN EVENING CONCERT FOR LOUIS XIV• Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin Victoria Gunn ~ baroque viola Anna Marsh ~ baroque bassoon Suites assembled in 1713 for  for Louis XIV of his favorite music from at least 5 decades of his reign will be premiered, possibly for the first time since the death of Louis XIV in 1715. A remarkable and almost completely unknown manuscript of 770 pages was discovered in Paris by Jeffrey Cohan. "Collected and put in order" in 1713 by Louis XIV's long-time music librarian Andre Danican Philidor l'ainé for "the little concerts given evenings for his majesty", the contents reflect the aging king's desire to hear his favorite music from at least as far back as 54 years in a more intimate setting, surely for performance by a select group of the king's favorite instrumentalists. Two years before his death in 1715, Louis XIV was particularly anxious to revisit the music of his youth and the ensuing decades, and Philidor dates some of these selections as far back as 1659, when Louis XIV was 21 and had danced for eight years already in ballet performances at court, most famously as the sun god Apollo. Entitled “Collection of Symphonies and Trios by Mr. Lully and several Trios by Mr. De la Lande", the manuscript includes 67 suites of between two and twelve movements each, often with colorful titles representative of vocal texts. Selections from operas, ballets and other works originally intended for a larger ensemble are here reduced to be performed by three or rarely four voices, alongside chamber music or "symphonies" composed as "trio de la chambre", all mostly by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the king's indispensable court composer since 1653 who had been dead already for 26 years in 1713, and other composers such as the younger Michel-Richard de la Lande and the music librarian Philidor himself. Each of five part books consists of 145 manuscript pages to which is affixed the same engraved nine pages of title page and table of contents. This exciting and extensive new source of chamber music at the court of Louis XIV is to be explored on the baroque instruments with which the king was familiar. The baroque bassoon was a favored bass instrument at the court of Louis XIV. Seventeen of the suites have been performed in the last few years by Jeffrey Cohan and colleagues for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC. Please join us on Thursday for this opening concert of the 2020 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in the fabulous setting and acoustics at St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church! St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma   •  suggested donation $15, $20 or $25  •  18 and under free  • /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. /