Olena Kohut//ssemf ////ssemf// //William SImms   •   Louis XIV////  •   Caroline Nicolas// *The MUSIQUE DE LA CHAMBRE**of LOUIS XIV *features music by prominent soloists, all composers, who frequently played for Louis XIV, including the king’s guitar instructor Robert De Visée and his Italian predecessor Francesco Corbetta, along with a favorite viola da gambist at the court, Marin Marais and his teacher Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, as well as Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, a young harpsichordist and one of the few famous female musicians of her time whose playing and compositions Louis deeply admired and subsidized. This program is innovative in a variety of ways. Jeffrey Cohan discovered the earliest known French solo specifically for the transverse flute by the king’s court music librarian André Danican Philidor L'Aisné in a relatively unknown and as yet unpublished manuscript which now resides in the Library of Congress and was prepared in 1695 by Philidor himself as a present from Louis XIV for the Duke of Bavaria. Marin Marais asserted that his music for viola da gamba might be played on the transverse flute as we do in the Suite in D Major from his first book of pieces for viola da gamba. Similarly a sonata by Jacquet de La Guerre assumes a new resonance in our realization for transverse flute, gamba and guitar. Caroline Nicolas and William Simms will perform solos for viola da gamba and guitar by De Visée, Corbetta and Sainte-Colombe. Monday, May 5 at 7:00 PM at Mason United Methodist Church:  — *The MUSIQUE DE LA CHAMBRE of LOUIS XIV* —    · Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba    · William Simms, baroque guitar    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute              ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ ***Mason United Methodist Church*    2710 North Madison Street in Tacoma www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>      — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) — 18 and under free              ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ Your donations alone enable this project entirely, are applied to all 2025 concerts equally and are gratefully accepted at https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate.html. Thank you!