2026-2027 Season
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Friday, November 13, 2026 at 6.30 in in the Magdalen Hall (Parish Hall) of St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2005 Berryman, Berkeley
The Barefoot All-Stars
(Erik Andersen; Wendy Gillespie; Peter Hallifax; Julie Jeffrey; Lynn Tetenbaum, viols)
with John Lenti, lute
play Dowland’s Lachrimae and More
It is 400 years since John Dowland, England’s most famous lutenist and an extraordinary composer, died. His life was full: he lived and worked in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Denmark. He wrote four books of lute songs, innumerable complex compositions for the lute, and many other compositions, including psalms and lamentations and other chamber music. But his most revered work, and the centerpiece of tonight’s concert, is the seven “passionate pavans” of “Lachrimae, or Seven Teares”.
His music has been sung, played, arranged (and occasionally mistreated) by a wide variety of famous musicians: Julian Bream, Elvis Costello, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Percy Aldridge Grainger, and Sting to name just a few. But the most famous of all his compositions is the song, “Flow My Teares” which is also the “Lacrimae Antiquae” which anchors the set of seven pavans based on it
the program is completed by other compositions, some by Dowland, some by other early 17th century composers, that refer to and reflect the great legacy of the original pavan.
Friday, September 11, 6.30 pm in the Magdalen Hall (Parish Hall )of Saint Mary Magdalen Church, 2005 Berryman, Berkeley.
Please enter the Hall from the parking lot (go down the entry ramp 50 yards East of the Church on Berryman), and then down a flight of stairs to the West of the parking area.
Admission $25 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
You can reserve a seat in advance by email at info@barefootchamberconcerts.com, and pay at the door
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