25/26 Season: Paul O'Dette, lute by bostonearlymusicfestival

n SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026 8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational

PAUL O’DETTE, lute

PAUL O’DETTE & STEPHEN STUBBS , Artistic Directors

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Dear Friends,

We are delighted to welcome you to our first concert of the New Year, which features legendary lutenist Paul O’Dette, BEMF’s beloved Artistic Co-Director. Hailed as the “greatest living lutenist” (Stereophile), Mr. O’Dette has built a reputation as an artist of unparallelled technical skill, sensitivity, and effervescent musicality. In this, his first solo appearance on BEMF’s annual concert series in 24 years, he leads us on a fascinating journey through a collection of recently discovered manuscripts transcribed in the 1590s by the young nobleman Orazio Albani da Urbino. This singular and varied collection contains works by the greatest lutenists of the late 16th century, among them Lorenzino Tracetti and the famed “Knight of the Lute,” Vincenzo Pinti. The performance will be made available for two weeks of online viewing starting February 13 at 8pm.

Our 25/26 Season continues a mere two weeks from tonight, with the first of three further concerts being presented here at First Church in Cambridge. On Saturday evening, February 14, we welcome the dynamic musicians of ACRONYM in a program highlighting the surviving instrumental and vocal music of Adam and Johann Samuel Drese, including many modern premieres. These two cousins were instrumental in shaping the musical landscape in Weimar into which Johann Sebastian Bach entered. Powerhouse ensemble Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the dynamic musicians of Juilliard415 join forces on Sunday, March 1 at 3pm, for a concert celebrating the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Féry Rebel, and Marin Marais, with overtures and a cornucopia of French Baroque dances including the chaconne featuring veteran BEMF dancers Caroline Copeland and Julian Donahue. And on Friday evening, March 13, we welcome back the superb young musicians of Le Consort, for a voyage through the trio sonata repertoire of Bach, Telemann, Porpora, Geminiani, Albinoni, and others. We hope to see you at all of these upcoming events!

Thank you for attending tonight’s performance by Paul O’Dette, whether in person or virtually, and please accept our heartfelt thanks for your continued enthusiastic support of the Boston Early Music Festival.

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n SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026

VIRTUAL AVAILABILITY: 8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational February 28 to March 14, 2026

ACRONYM

SEELENBRÄUTIGAM: The Drese Effect | Adam Drese and his cousin Johann Samuel Drese helped shape the musical landscape that Johann Sebastian Bach entered into Johann Samuel was even Kapellmeister in Weimar during Bach’s tenure in the city. While much of their repertoire has been lost to history, the Drese cousins were hugely influential, including on the young Bach. American chamber ensemble ACRONYM presents a program that assembles for the first time nearly all of the extant works by the Drese cousins, along with several of Bach’s arrangements of them. Comprised of some of North America’s finest young Early Music specialists, ACRONYM is joined by an all-star roster of guest artists for this unique exploration.

n SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2026 | 3PM

TAFELMUSIK & JUILLIARD415

ROBERT MEALY, Director

CAROLINE COPELAND & JULIAN DONAHUE, dancers

The theatricality and elegance of Rameau’s music comes alive with choreographies by Caroline Copeland

n FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026 | 8PM

VIRTUAL AVAILABILITY: March 27 to April 10, 2026

LE CONSORT

Journey through Baroque Europe for a whirlwind program spotlighting the trio sonata

n SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2026 | 4PM

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JORDI SAVALL & FRIENDS

More than 30 international artists present a dialogue with the music of Africa, America, and the Caribbean

n SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026 | 8PM

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PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY & ARTASERSE

Thrill to Italian Baroque cantatas exploring the passion and anguish of jealosy with this superstar countertenor

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Sponsor of Jordi Savall, Director & viol, for his April 2026 appearance with Hespèrion XXI et al.

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Boston Early Music Festival PRESENTS PAUL O’DETTE, lute

NEW DISCOVERIES

THE AMAZING LUTE MANUSCRIPTS OF ORAZIO ALBANI DA URBINO (1576–1653)

Preludium overo Tochata del Sig. Lorenzino Tracetti

Lorenzino Tracetti (ca. 1550–1590)

Toccata Tracetti

Fantasia del Sig. Lorenzino Tracetti Tracetti

Reveillez moy mon bel ami chanson by Garnier (fl. 1538–1542); anonymous intabulation

Madre mia non mi fa Monica Anonymous

Tamburina Gagliarda Anonymous

Volta Anonymous

Corrente Anonymous

Toccata Anonymous

Fantasia Anonymous

Follia Vincenzo Pinti? (1542–1608)

Romanesca del Cavaliere del Liuto Pinti

Branle di Lorenzino Tracetti

Brando Anonymous

Balletto Anonymous

Corrente Anonymous

Branle Anonymous

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THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL THANKS

GLENN A. KNICKREHM and CONSTELLATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION for their leadership support of tonight’s performance by Paul O’Dette

Toccata Tracetti?

Corrente “favorita del Cardinal Montalto” Pinti

Gagliarda Pinti?

Gagliarda del Sig. Lorenzino Tracetti Tracetti

Corrente Anonymous

Susanne un jour chanson by Orlande de Lassus (ca. 1530/2–1594); anonymous intabulation

Toccata Tracetti?

Fantasia Anonymous

Canzone francese Anonymous

Ruggiero Pinti?

Gagliarda del Sig. Cavaliere Pinti

Gagliarda sul Passemezzo moderno Pinti?

8-course Renaissance lute by Paul Thomson, Bristol, UK, 1991, after Vendelio Venere, 1582

LIVE CONCERT

Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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PROGRAM NOTES

THE KNIGHTS OF THE LUTE

The music in tonight’s concert comes from a collection of recently discovered manuscripts copied out in the 1590s by Orazio Albani da Urbino, a nobleman who studied the lute in Rome as a teenager. The composers represented are not household names today, but they were the rock stars of the musical world in late Renaissance Rome. Lorenzino Tracetti and the “Cavaliere del Liuto” (Knight of the Lute), Vincenzo Pinti, were the most acclaimed lutenists of the time, whose music was studied and performed throughout Europe. John Dowland published fantasias by both composers alongside his own works in London in 1610. Until very recently, there was a great deal of confusion and misinformation about both composers, including questions as to whether they might have been the same person, since both were knights: Lorenzino a Golden Knight, and Pinti, a Knight of the Militia of Christ of Lusitania. Fortunately, recent research has sorted out their biographies, revealing that while they were both knights, they were two very different musicians, each of whom had a distinct musical personality.

Lorenzino Tracetti (ca. 1550–1590) was known as the greatest virtuoso of the time—a “freak

of nature,” as described in one document. His surname was only discovered recently as he was usually known simply as Lorenzino, Lorenzini, or Laurencini in northern sources. He spent the early part of his career in the employ of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este at the Cardinal’s villa at Tivoli, but he quickly grew tired of playing for the elderly prelate, and would often flee to Rome where he reportedly moved from villa to villa, performing “at the houses of cardinals and lords,” to be heard by “his lordship, the ambassador of the emperor,” and “stupefying everyone” with his virtuosity. These publicity tours were effective as Lorenzino quickly became the object of expensive bidding wars between powerful aristocratic families, including the Gonzagas in Mantua, the Prince of Bisignano, the Duke of Bavaria, and the King of France, Charles IX, each court offering more than the previous one! Surprisingly, it appears that Lorenzino decided to stay in Rome, where he was earning a lucrative living as a teacher, while still earning large fees for performing at various courts.

Lorenzino’s musical style looks both forwards and backwards, as he was especially known for his groundbreaking toccatas, as well as for his old-fashioned but beautifully crafted fantasias. During his time at Tivoli, Lorenzino

THE LUTE PLAYER

Painting by Caravaggio (ca. 1600)

was a colleague of Palestrina, whose sacred vocal music had a profound influence on the lutenist’s contrapuntal writing. Lorenzino was also known for his elaborately embellished arrangements of chansons and madrigals, as well as for his dance pieces with their lavishly decorated variations. It is likely that several of the anonymous works on this program are by Lorenzino, but more stylistic analysis needs to be done before additional attributions are made.

The “Cavaliere del Liuto,” Vincenzo Pinti (1542–1608), was a private, almost reclusive character. He worked first for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and later for Cardinal Montalto, an enthusiastic patron of the arts who presented musical entertainments at his residence, the magnificent Cancelleria palace. The Cavaliere was widely praised for the beauty of his playing, yet he apparently did not wish for his compositions to be circulated, which accounts for their scarcity in the sources. Orazio Albani may have studied with the Cavaliere in Rome, which would account for the significant number of Pinti’s pieces being included in the Albani manuscripts. The Knight must have felt safe giving his music to a private student if they were only copied in the pupil’s personal music books.

ARTIST PROFILE

The Cavaliere’s music is generally less flamboyant than Lorenzino’s, but the complexity of his counterpoint is extraordinary, and the daring, poignant dissonances he used may have inspired Monteverdi in his Ballo delle ingrate. Many of the anonymous works heard here are undoubtedly by the Cavaliere del Liuto, but for the time being they are listed here as anonymous pending further research.

While Lorenzino Tracetti and the Cavaliere del Liuto are unfamiliar to modern audiences, in the late sixteenth century they were considered the musical equals of their fellow Romans, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. Our knowledge of their music is greatly enhanced by the discovery of the Albani manuscripts which contain many previously unknown works by each of them. I would like to thank Franco Pavan, Professor of Lute at the Conservatory of Verona, who discovered the collection and brought its existence to my attention, and Brunella Paolini, librarian at the Biblioteca Oliveriana in Pesaro, who supervised the digitization of the manuscripts and made them available to me. This evening’s program represents just a small sample of the treasures copied out by Orazio Albani! n

—Paul O’Dette

“…should I come to meet Saint Peter at the pearly gates, I hope he will say, ‘Welcome, good and faithful servant! By the way, be sure to hear Paul O’Dette—he’s leading the angel band.’”

Early Music America, Spring 2011

Paul O’Dette has been described as “the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument” (Toronto Globe and Mail). His performances at the major international festivals in Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, Milan, Florence, Urbino, Zurich, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona,

Seville, Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Melbourne, Adelaide, Boston, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Berkeley, York, Edinburgh, Montpellier, Utrecht, Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp, Bremen, Dresden, Innsbruck, Tenerife, Copenhagen, Oslo, etc., have often been singled out as the highlight of those events.

Mr. O’Dette is also active conducting Baroque operas. His recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with Stephen Stubbs and the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble won a Grammy for “Best Opera Recording of 2014,” as well as an Echo Klassik Award in the same category. In 1997, together with Stephen Stubbs, he directed performances of Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo at Tanglewood, the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), and the Drottningholm Court Theatre in Sweden. Since 1999, they have co-directed performances of Cavalli’s Ercole Amante at the Boston Early Music Festival, Tanglewood, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Provenzale’s La Stellidaura Vendicante at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, Monteverdi’s Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea for Festival Vancouver, Lully’s Thésée, Conradi’s Ariadne (Hamburg, 1691), Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow, Lully’s Psyché, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Poppea, and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Agostino Steffani’s Niobe and Orlando generoso, Handel’s Almira, Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise, Telemann’s Pimpinone and Don Quichotte, Desmarest’s Circè, Keiser’s Octavia, and a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo for the Boston Early Music Festival. Seven of their opera recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards, including Ariadne as “Best Opera Recording of 2005,” Thésée in 2007, Psyché in 2008, La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers in 2014, Niobe in 2015, Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants in 2019, and Telemann’s Ino in 2025. The

recording of Steffani’s Niobe was awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année, an Echo Klassik Award, and the prestigious Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik. O’Dette has conducted numerous Baroque orchestras and opera productions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Paul O’Dette has made more than 160 recordings, winning two Grammys, receiving nine Grammy nominations, seven Diapason d’Or de l’Année, twelve Diapason d’Or, two Echo Klassik Awards, a Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik, seven Gramophone nominations, and numerous other international record awards. The Complete Lute Music of John Dowland (a 5-CD set for harmonia mundi usa) was awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or de l’Année and selected as the “Best Solo Lute Recording of Dowland” by BBC Radio 3. The Bachelar’s Delight: Lute Music of Daniel Bacheler was nominated for a Grammy as “Best Solo Instrumental Recording of 2006.”

In addition to his activities as a performer, Paul O’Dette is an avid researcher, having worked extensively on the performance and sources of seventeenth-century Italian and English solo song, Italian, German, and French Baroque opera, basso continuo practices, and the Roman cantata repertoire of the mid-seventeenth century. He has published numerous articles on issues of historical performance practice and coauthored the Dowland entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Paul O’Dette is Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music and Artistic Co-Director of the Boston Early Music Festival. For his teaching, he has been awarded Early Music America’s “Thomas Binkley Award” for outstanding Collegium directing, as well as Eastman’s “Eisenhart Award for Teaching Excellence.” n

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One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin. Biennial centerpiece productions feature both the Boston Early Music Festival

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The twenty-third biennial Boston Early Music Festival, Love & Power, was held in June 2025 and featured Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 opera Octavia. The twenty-fourth Festival, in June 2027, will have as its centerpiece Georg Philipp Telemann’s 1728 opera Emma und Eginhard.

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John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series features the artists of the Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber Ensembles and focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil, John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, Telemann’s Don Quichotte, and most recently Francesco Provenzale’s Stellidaura’s Revenge. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011. In summer 2025, The Dragon of Wantley was performed at Confidencen in

Stockholm, Sweden, and at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Oldenburg, Germany, as part of Musikfest Bremen.

BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, fourcountry European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the

SCENE FROM BEMF’S 2023 PRODUCTION OF LAMPE’S THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY

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Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason d’Or de l’Année and a 2015 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a six-city North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020. BEMF’s recording of Desmarest’s Circé, the 2023 Festival opera, was released concurrently with the opera’s North American premiere, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo was released in December 2023, Telemann’s Ino and opera arias for soprano, featuring Amanda Forsythe, was released in October 2024 and has been nominated for a Grammy, Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Reuil was released in May 2025, and the newest recording, Marazzoli’s Cantatas of Peace and Pleasure, was released in November 2025.

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Revenue from ticket sales, even from a sold-out performance, accounts for less than half of the total cost of producing BEMF’s operas and concerts; the remainder is derived almost entirely from generous friends like you. With your help, we will be able to build upon the triumphs of the past, and continue to bring you thrilling performances by today’s finest Early Music artists.

Our membership organization, the FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, includes donors from around the world. These individuals recognize the Festival’s need for further financial support in order to fulfill its aim of serving as a showcase for the finest talent in the field.

PLEASE JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL BY DONATING AT ONE OF SEVERAL LEVELS:

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THREE

WAYS TO GIVE:

• Visit BEMF.org and click on “Give Now”.

• Call BEMF at 617-661-1812 to donate by telephone using your credit card

• Mail your credit card information or a check (payable to BEMF) to Boston Early Music Festival, 43 Thorndike Street, Suite 302, Cambridge, MA 02141-1764

OTHER WAYS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:

• Increase your philanthropic impact with a Matching Gift from your employer.

• Make a gift of appreciated stocks or bonds to BEMF.

• Planned Giving allows you to support BEMF in perpetuity while achieving your financial goals.

• Direct your gift to a particular area that interests you with a Named Gift

QUESTIONS?

Please e-mail Kathleen Fay at KATHY@BEMF.ORG, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

FRIENDS OF THE Boston Early Music Festival

This list reflects donations received from April 1, 2024 to January 1, 2026

FESTIVAL ANGELS

($25,000 or more)

Diane† & John Paul Britton

Bernice K. Chen

Marie-Pierre & Michael Ellmann

Peter L. Faber

Lori Fay & Christopher Cherry

David Halstead & Jay Santos

George L. Hardman

Ellen T. & John T. Harris

Glenn A. KnicKrehm

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. MacCracken

Jeffrey G. Mora, in memory of Wendy Fuller-Mora

Miles Morgan†

Bettina A. Norton

Lorna E. Oleck

Susan L. Robinson

Andrew Sigel

Joan Margot Smith

Piroska Soos†

Marilee Wheeler Trust

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE

($10,000 or more)

Anonymous (4)

Beth Brown, in memory of Walter R.J. Brown

James C. Busby

Katie & Paul Buttenwieser

Brit d’Arbeloff

Susan Denison

Thomas G. Evans†

Jean Fuller Farrington

James A. Glazier

Donald Peter Goldstein, M.D.

Barbara & Amos Hostetter

Edward B. Kellogg†

Mei-Fung Kerley, in memory of Ted Chen

Robert E. Kulp, Jr., in memory of Diane Britton

Heather Mac Donald & Erich Eichman

Bill McJohn

Rebecca Nemser, in memory of Paul Nemser

Joanne Zervas Sattley

Andie Taras & Tony Elitcher

Karen Tenney & Tom Loring

Maria van Kalken & Hal Winslow

Donald E. Vaughan & Lee S. Ridgway

Christoph Wolff

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

($5,000 or more)

Anonymous (4)

Douglas & Aviva Brooks

Gregory E. Bulger & Richard J. Dix

Peter & Katie DeWolf

Susan Donaldson

Kathleen Fay, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay

Phillip Hanvy

Alan M. King

Marianne & Terry Louderback

Neal J. Plotkin & Deborah Malamud

Harold I. Pratt

Paul Rabin & Arlene Snyder

Kenneth C. Ritchie & Paul T. Schmidt

Nina & Timothy Rose

David Scudder & Betsy Ridge

BENEFACTORS

($2,500 or more)

Anonymous (2)

Dr. Alan & Mrs. Fiona Brener

Amy Brown & Brian Carr

John A. Carey

Peter S. Coleman

Elizabeth Davidson†, in honor of David Morris

Mary Deissler†

Carl E. Dettman

Helen Edwards

Michael E. Fay

John Felton & Marty Gottron, in honor of Paul O’Dette

Jane Hoover

Dr. Peter Libby

Harriet Lindblom

Keith Ohmart & Helen Chen

Brian Pfeiffer

Martha J. Radford

Jose M. Rodriguez & Richard A. Duffy

Paul L. Sapienza, PC CPA

Raymond A. & Marilyn Smith

Richard K. & Kerala J. Snyder

Adrian & Michelle Touw

John C. Wiecking

GUARANTORS

($1,000 or more)

Anonymous (9)

Jonathan B. Aibel & Julie I. Rohwein, in honor of James Glazier

Annemarie Altman, in memory of Dave Cook

A.M. Askew

Ann Beha & Robert Radloff

Mary Briggs & John Krzywicki

The Honorable Leonie M. Brinkema & Mr. John R. Brinkema

Pamela & Lee Bromberg

Julie Brown & Zachary Morowitz

Betty Canick

Robert & Elizabeth Carroll

David J. Chavolla

Carla Chrisfield & Benjamin D. Weiss

Peter Ciampi

Charles E. Clark, in memory of Diane Britton

Dr. & Mrs. Franklyn Commisso

Mary Cowden

Geoffrey Craddock

Richard & Constance Culley

The Davison-Twomey Family

Jeffrey Del Papa

John W. Ehrlich

FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Henk Elderhorst

Charles & Elizabeth Emerson

David Emery & Olimpia Velez

Claire Fontijn, in memory of Arthur Fontijn & Sylvia Elvin

Bruce A. Garetz

Alexander Garthwaite

Dr. Robert L. Harris

Rebecca & Ronald Harris-Warrick

H. Jan & Ruth H. Heespelink

Michael Herz & Jean Roiphe

James & Ina Heup

Jessica Honigberg

Thomas M. Hout & Sonja Ellingson Hout

Wayne & Laurell Huber

Jean & Alex Humez

Jean Jackson, in memory of Louis Kampf

Thomas F. Kelly & Peggy Badenhausen

Barry D. Kernfeld & Sally A. McMurry

Art & Linda Kingdon

Fran & Tom Knight

Jason Knutson & Eleena Zhelezov

Neal & Catherine Konstantin

Kathryn Mary Kucharski

Robert & Mary La Porte

Amelia J. LeClair & Garrow Throop

John Leen & Eileen Koven

Lawrence & Susan Liden

James Liu & Alexandra Bowers

Kenneth Loveday & Ellen Hoffman

Mark & Mary Lunsford

William & Joan Magretta

John S. Major & Valerie Steele

Carol Marsh

David McCarthy & John Kolody

Amy & Brian McCreath

Michael P. McDonald

Victor† & Ruth† McElheny

Kati Mitchell

Louise Oremland

Richard & Julia Osborne

William J. Pananos

Gene & Margaret Pokorny

Amanda & Melvyn Pond, in honor of everything that BEMF does

Tracy Powers

Susan Pundt

Christa Rakich & Janis Milroy

Lois & Quentin Regestein, in memory of Jim Nicolson

Sandy Reismann & Dr. Nanu Brates

Alice Robbins & Walter Denny

Arthur & Elaine Robins

Patsy Rogers

Lois Rosow

Michael & Karen Rotenberg

Carlton & Lorna Russell

Kevin Ryan & Ozerk Gogus, in memory of Dorothy Fay

Susan Sargent

Lynne & Ralph Schatz

Richard Schroeder & Dr. Jane Burns

Mary Ann & Charles Schultz

Susan Schuur

David Scudder & Betsy Ridge, in memory of Diane Britton

Wendy Shattuck & Sam Plimpton

Laila Awar Shouhayib

Cynthia Siebert

Murray & Hazel Somerville

Louisa C. Spottswood

Ted St. Antoine

Catherine & Keith Stevenson

Paola Stone, in memory of Edmondo Malanotte

Theresa & Charles Stone

Lisa Teot

Lonice Thomas

Judie Toti, in memory of Carroll Ann Bottino

Paula & Peter Tyack

Prof. Van Orden

Patrick Wallace & Laurie McNeil

Louella Krueger Ward, in memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, PhD, ABPP

Peter J. Wender

Scott & Barbara Winkler

PATRONS

($500 or more)

Anonymous (6)

Morton Abromson & Joan Nissman

Nicholas Altenbernd

Brian P. & Debra K. S. Anderson

Tom & Judy Anderson Allen

Susan P. Bachelder

Carl Baker & Susan Haynes

Louise Basbas

William & Ann Bein

Lawrence Bell

Michael & Sheila Berke

Barbara R. Bishop

Robert Burger

Frederick Byron

John Campbell & Susanna Peyton

JoAnne Chernow

Sherryl & Gerard Cohen

Mary Cook, in memory of Diane Britton

David Cooke

Linzee Coolidge

Nancy Coolidge

Elizabeth & David Cregger

Warren R. Cutler

Belden & Pamela Daniels

Eric & Margaret Darling

Anuradha Desai & Michael Sheridan, in memory of Carroll Ann Bottino

Kathryn Disney

Ross Duffin & Beverly Simmons

Austin & Eileen Farrar

Elizabeth Forman

Jonathan Friedes & Qian Huang

Sandy Gadsby & Nancy Brown

Sarah M. Gates

Tom Golden

Thomas H. & Lori B. Griswold

Laury Gutierrez & Elsa Gelin

Deborah Haraldson

Joan E. Hartman

Catherine & John Henn

Ian Hinchliffe & Marjorie Shapiro

Linda Hodgkinson

Phyllis E. Hoffman, in memory of Robert J. Hoffman

Charles Bowditch Hunter

Paul & Alice Johnson

Richard Johnson & Annmarie Linnane

Patrick G. Jordan

Barbara & Paul Krieger

Tom & Kate Kush, in honor of Michael Ellmann

Jasper Lawson

Susan Lewinnek

Catherine Liddell

FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Roger & Susan Lipsey

Mary Maarbjerg

Quinn MacKenzie

Sarah P. Marsh

Carol & Pedro Martinez

Anne H. Matthews

Marilyn Miller

Ray Mitzel

Nancy Morgenstern, in memory of William & Marjorie Pressman

Gene Murrow

Nancy Nuzzo

John Parisi

Joseph L. Pennacchio

Hon. W. Glen Pierson & Hon. Charles P. Reed

Brandon Qualls

Virginia Raguin, in honor of Kathy Fay

Mahadev & Ambika Raman

Julia M. Reade & Robert A. Duncan

Hadley Reynolds

Michael Rogan & Hugh Wilburn

Ellen Rosand

Rusty Russell, in memory of Alan Durfee

Phil & Catherine Saines

Harvey A. Silverglate, in memory of Elsa Dorfman

Mark Slotkin

Elizabeth Snow

Ronald W. Stoia

Carl Swanson

Michael Thompson

Mark S. Thurber & Susan M. Galli

Reed & Peggy Ueda

Robert Warren

The Westner Family

Polly Wheat & John Cole

Michael & Margery Whiteman

Allan & Joann Winkler

Janet Zander & Mark Ellenberger

The Zucker Family

ASSOCIATES

($250 or more)

Anonymous (8)

Karen Atkinson

Tim Barber & Joel Krajewski

Helen Benham

Judith Bergson

Larry & Sara Mae Berman

Jesse Blumberg & Johanna Novom

Deborah Boldin & Gabriel Rice

James Bowman

Sally & Charlie Boynton

C. Anthony Broh & Jennifer L. Hochschild

Jane K. Brown

Deborah & Richard Burke

Derek Campbell

Joseph Cantey

Anne Chalmers† & Holly Gunner

Mary Chamberlain

Peter Charig & Amy Briemer

Derek Cottier & Lauren Tilly

Gray F. Crouse

Tekla Cunningham & David Sawyer

Steven C. & Shirley A. Davis

William DePeter

Forrest Dillon

Michael DiSabatino, in honor of Nancy Olson

Ellen Dokton & Stephen Schmidt

Charles & Sheila Donahue

Chuck Epstein & Melia Bensussen

The Rev’d Richard Fabian

Deborah Fegan

Gregg & Abby Wolf Feigelson

Mary Fillman & Mary Otis Stevens

Janet G. Fink

Dr. Patrick J. Fox, in honor of Nancy Olson

Fred Franklin, in memory of Kaaren Grimstad

Robert Freeman

Elizabeth French

Fred & Barbara Gable

Barbara Gauditz

George & Marla Gearhart

Monica & David Gerber

The Graver Family

Mary Greer

Eric Haas, in memory of Janet Haas

Eric & Dee Hansen

Diane Hellens

Rebecca Herter

David Hoglund

Keith & Catherine Hughes

Chris & Klavs Jensen

Laura Jeppesen & Daniel Stepner

Karen Johansen & Gardner Hendrie

Robin Johnson

David K. Jordan

David P. Kiaunis

Peggy Kimball

Robert L. Kleinberg

George Kocur

Christopher Larossa

Frederick V. Lawrence, in memory of Rosemarie Maag Lawrence

Dr. Bruce C. MacIntyre

Marietta Marchitelli

June Matthews

Donna McCampbell

Anne McCants

Andrew Modest & Beth Arndtsen

Agatha Morrell

Debra Nagy

Nancy Nicholson

Michael J. Normile

Eugene Papa

Jane P. Papa

Henry Paulus

David & Beth Pendery

Phillip Petree

John Petrowsky

Bici Pettit-Barron

Elizabeth V. Phillips

Stephen Poteet

Anne & François Poulet

Lawrence Pratt & Rosalind Forber

David Rehm

Marge Roberts

Sherry & William Rogers

Paul Rutz

Cheryl K. Ryder

Richard L. Schmeidler

David Schneider & Klára Móricz

Clem Schoenebeck, in memory of Bill Schoenebeck

Maria Schreiber

Alison M. Scott

Miriam N. Seltzer

Mr. Terry Shea & Dr. Seigo Nakao

Michael & Judy Sherer

Jon Solins & Mary Peterson

FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Jeffrey Soucy

Ann Stewart

Richard Stumpf

Victoria Sujata

Jonathan Swartz

Ralph & Jeanine Swick, in memory of Alan & Judie Kotok

Tim & Ann Szczesuil

Ken & Margo Taylor

Shelburne Thurber

Edward P. Todd

John & Dorothy Truman

Elizabeth Trumpler, in memory of Donald Trumpler

Peter & Kathleen Van Demark

Robert & Therese Wagenknecht

Juanita H. Wetherell

Sarah Whittaker

Beverly Woodward & Paul Monsky

J. Yavarkovsky & C. Lowe

PARTNERS

($100 or more)

Anonymous (16)

Joseph Aieta III

Mr. Neale Ainsfield & Dr. Donna Sieckmann

Joanne Algarin

Gene Arnould

Neil R. Ayer, Jr. & Linda Ayer

Judith Bairstow

Eric & Rebecca Bank

Dr. David Barnert & Julie Raskin

Rev. & Mrs. Joseph Bassett

Alan Bates & Michele Mandrioli

Alan Benenfeld

Susan Benua

Noel & Paula Berggren

John Birks

Sarah Bixler & Christopher Tonkin

Dan Bloomberg & Irene Beardsley

Wes Bockley & Amy Markus

John Boesen & Janne Hellgren

Claire Bonfilio

Richard Borts & Paulette York

Louise Bourgault

Sibel Bozdogan

James Bradley

David Breitman & Kathryn Stuart

Joel Bresler

Andrew Brethauer

Derick & Jennifer Brinkerhoff

David C. Brown

David L. Brown

Lawrence Brown

David & Barbara Burke, in memory of Carroll Ann Sheridan Bottino

John H. Burkhalter III

Judi Burten, in memory of Phoebe Larkey

Alice Butler

Verne & Madeline Caviness

Floyd & Aleeta Christian

Robert B. Christian

Daniel Church & Roger Cuevas

John K. Clark & Judith M. Stoughton

Alan Clayton-Matthews

Carol & Alex Collier

Robert B. Crane

Francine Crawford

Donna Cubit-Swoyer

James Cyphers

Ruta Daugela

Carl & May Daw, in memory of Ned Kellogg

Leigh Deacon

Alison Desimone

Jim Diamond

Paul Doerr

Duane R. Downey

Diane L. Droste

Ben Dunham & Wendy Rolfe-Dunham

John Dunton & Carol McKeen

Peter A. Durfee & Peter G. Manson

Michael Durgin, in memory of Lisle Kulbach

Jane Edwards

Mark Elenko

Thomas Engel

Anne Engelhart & Douglas Durant

David English

Seth Estrin

Lila M. Farrar

Marilyn Farwell

Annette Fern

Mary B. Findley

Carol L. Fishman

Frances Conover Fitch

Dr. Jonathan Florman

Howard C. Floyd

Frederick S. Frank

Gary Freeman

Marcia & Jeff Freyman

R. Andrew Garthwaite

Gisela & Ronald Geiger

Stephen L. Gencarello

The Goldsmith Family

Lisa Goldstein

Nancy L. Graham

Winifred Gray

Judith Green & James Kurtz

Janet Grogan

Deborah Grose

John Gruver & Lynn Tilley

Peter F. Gustafson

Sonia Guterman, in memory of Martin Guterman

Quang Ha

Richard & Les Hadsell

Peter Hainer

Jimmy Hamamoto

Tunie Hamlen

Suzanne & Easley Hamner

Joyce Hannan

Jasjit & Donald L. Heckathorn

Karin Hemmingsen

Katherine A. Hesse

Carole Hilton

Patricia G. Hoffman

Margaret Hornick

Valerie Horst & Benjamin Peck

Judith & Alan Hudson

Constance Huff

Joe Hunter & Esther Schlorholtz

Francesco Iachello

Willemien Insinger

Susan L. Jackson

Michele Jerison

Mary Parke Johnson

Judith L. Johnston & Bruce L. Bush

Lucy Johnston

James Kaddaras

George Kaminsky

David Keating

Patricia Keating

Thomas Keirstead

Kathleen O’Dea Kelly

FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Mr. & Mrs. Seamus C. Kelly

Louis & Susan Kern

Joseph J. Kesselman, Jr.

David & Alice Kidder

Maryanne King

Pat Kline

Valerie & Karl KnicKrehm

Ellen Kranzer

Benjamin Krepp & Virginia Webb

Robert W. Kruszyna

Jay Carlton Kuhn, Jr.

Claire Laporte

Bruce Larkin & Donna Jarlenski

David A. Leach & Laurie J. LaChapelle

William Lebow

Ellen R. Lewis

Robert & Janice Locke

Laura Loehr

John Longstreth

William Loutrel & Thomas Fynan

Sandra & David Lyons

Desmarest Lloyd MacDonald, in memory of Ned Kellogg

Mary Mackay & Edward Wheatley, in memory of Carroll Ann Sheridan Bottino

Anna Mansbridge

Stefanie Moritz

Rodney & Barbara Myrvaagnes

David Nadvorney

Amelia Nagoski

Jennie Needleman

Cindy Hannig Neels

Avi Nelson

Arthur & Charlotte Ness, in memory of Ingolf Dahl

Gerald & Carol Neuman

Jeffrey Nicolich

Caroline Niemira

Leslie Nyman

Clara M. & John S. O’Shea

David & Claire Oxtoby

Gene & Cheryl Pace

William Packard

Valerie Palms

John R. Palys

Theodore Parent, in memory of Ruth Parent

Susan Patrick, in memory of Don Partridge

John Percy

Andrea Phan

Susan Porter & Robert Kauffman

RELEASING THIS FALL FROM THE

Helen Powell

Robert Marshall

Peter Martin

Boston Early Music Festival

Barbara Mauer

Ms. Sally Mayer

Mary McCallum

Lee McClelland

Heidi & George McEvoy

George McKee

Dave & Jeannette McLellan

Cynthia Merritt

Karen Metcalf

Susan Metz, in memory of Gerald Metz

Julie Middleton

Dennis Lee Milford

Marg Miller

Deborah Mintz

Nicolas Minutillo

Rosalind Mohnsen

Michael J. Moran, in memory of Francis D. & Marcella A. Moran

Thomas Prescott

George Raff

Rodney J. Regier

Susan Reutter-Harrah

Barbara Roberge

Sue Robinson

Paul Rosenberg & Harriet Moss

Barbara Roth

Sara Rubin & David Montanari

Charlotte Rutherfurd

Gregory Salzman

Robert & Barbara Schneider

R. Scholz & M. Kempers

Lynn & Mary Schultz

Fred Schulze

Michael Schwartz

David Sears

Jean Seiler

Jacob & Lisa Skowronek

Karen P. Smith

Elliott Smith & Wendy Gilmore

David Snead & Kate Prescott

William & Barbara Sommerfield

Jayne Sportelli

Scott Sprinzen

Scott Stansbury

Esther & Daniel Steinhauer

Steve Stelovich

Francine Stieglitz

John Strasswimmer

Barbara Strizhak, in memory of Elliott Strizhak

Jacek & Margaret Sulanowski

Jeffrey & Boryana Tacconi

Richard Tarrant

John & Barbara Tatum

Pierre Trepagnier & Louise Mundinger

Carol Tsang

Lynette Tsiang

Ruth W. Tucker

Nancy Turner

Konstantin & Kirsten Tyurin

Richard Urena

Nancy E. Van Baak, in memory of Edward B. Kellogg

Richard & Virginia von Rueden

Stephen Wallace

Sonia Wallenberg

Susan Walters

Thomas & LeRose Weikert

The Rev. Roger B. White, in memory of Joseph P. Hough

Susan & Charles Wilkes

David L. Williamson

John Wolff & Helen Berger

Susan Wyatt

David Yutzler

Ros & Andy Zimmerman, in memory of Carroll Ann Sheridan

Lawrence Zukof & Pamela Carley

† deceased

MARCO MARAZZOLI Cantatas of Peace and Pleasure

Aaron Sheehan & Adam Pearl

Kathy Sherrick

Hana Sittler

John & Carolyn Skelton

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