Music at Morris-Jumel presents
Duo Marchand
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Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
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Duo Marchand
Andy Rutherford, English guittar
Marcia Young, voice and triple harp
Duo Marchand will present a sampler of the domestic music-making of colonial America, spotlighting the duo's vintage 1770 English guittar and Italianate triple harp. The English guittar is a small wire-strung cittern that was the popular instrument of Colonial America, played in the homes of Washington, Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. The performance will take place directly under the room where George Washington slept during his extended stay at the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Program highlights include music by Francis Hopkinson and an arrangement from Handel's Water Music.
"Thoughtfully prepared and deftly executed. . . . every individual selection contributed to a greater totality. . . . the purely instrumental selections occasionally sounded as if they were emanating from some ancient, delicate music box—as an antiquated intricacy somehow preserved for 21st-century ears."
—The Washington Post
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DATE & TIME:
Saturday, October 3, 2009
4 pm
PLACE:
Morris-Jumel Mansion
65 Jumel Terrace
Manhattan
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