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Música Ficta to perform Wednesday night at Gobin
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues Wednesday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned comfort of Greencastle’s Gobin Church with the Colombia-based early-music group Música Ficta, performing “Stars, Lights, Rays: Art Songs of Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) in the New World.”
This week’s program is the Kissinger Family Concert, in honor of Joanne Kissinger and her family, who started the festival’s endowment at the Putnam County Foundation.
As with all GSMF concerts, there is no admission charge. The 12-week series of indoor Wednesday evening concerts, celebrating community and “friends making music for friends,” is made possible by individual donations as well as support from the Inn at DePauw, the Doc’s Inn, First National Bank, North Salem State Bank, Old National Bank, Tri-County Bank and Trust, and an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation.
The festival continues next week on June 19 with local singer/songwriter Bobbie Lancaster sharing a program with composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet and improviser Joel Karabo Elliott. Elliott will be presenting a unique sound journey known as Musical Ecology, inspired by his life and learnings as a global musician, educator and community regenerator in Southern Africa and Appalachia USA.
“This week’s performance by Música Ficta is a unique opportunity for our festival audience to experience extraordinary music making from this truly international ensemble,” Eric Edberg, the festival’s founding artistic director, said. “And because of the generosity of our donors and sponsors, there’s no admission charge -- hundreds of people will pay $25 per ticket to hear them the following weekend at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival.”
Música Ficta is a vocal and instrumental ensemble specialized in the rich and fascinating Latin-American and Spanish baroque repertoire. The ensemble, considered one of the most important early music groups in Latin-America, has performed in more than 30 countries in four continents. Música Ficta has appeared at major early music festivals and venues around the world, including the Kennedy Center for the Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Sainte Chapelle and the Conciergerie in Paris.
The program is devoted to the music of Sebastián Durón (1660-1716), who was arguably the most important Spanish composer of the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. His output of theater music — especially his comedies and zarzuelas — enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime, and many of his works are found in music archives in the Americas: Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru. His music reflects the vitality and cheerfulness of Spanish popular music, which by that time had already assimilated music elements coming from the Americas.
This concert program brings to light art songs (both secular tonos humanos and sacred tonos divinos) recently unearthed which have never before been recorded, as well as instrumental pieces by Durón himself and his contemporaries.
GSMF programs are made possible by free-will offerings, individual donors, an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, and businesses including First National Bank, North Salem State Bank, Old National Bank, and Tri-County Bank and Trust, the Doc’s Inn and the Inn at DePauw.
GSMF concerts are made possible primarily from donations from individuals. You can help make the gift of community through “friends making music for friends” online using PayPal.