Special guests for July 3rd meeting… Pepe Becker Soprano, Shruti Box) Don King (Lute) Robert Oliver (Bass Viol) “Hildegard to Handel” Pepe Becker (soprano, shruti box), Don King (lute) and Robert Oliver (bass viol) present a selection of early music, ranging from 12th Century chant (by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen) and other Medieval songs, to Italian and English Renaissance lute-songs, to 18th Century operatic arias (by G.F. Handel). They will use instruments in ways not often heard to accompany the voice in this repertoire: Robert’s “lyra viol” style of playing (with chords as well as the bass-line) replaces the more-often
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