Saturday, October 12 -- Mercer County
On September 13, 1759, during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), a worldwide conflict also known in America as the French and Indian War, the British under General James Wolfe achieved a dramatic victory when they scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec, capital of New France, defeating the French forces under Louis-Joseph Marquis de Montcalm. By virtue of this victory and the subsequent defeat of the French in India, Britain became master of the world. The Practitioners of Musick will perform “loyal songs” celebrating the British success in Canada and perform, as well, an extraordinary range of sacred and secular music that was heard in the palace of the Royal Governor of New France in the decades before the “Fall of Quebec.”
“Loyal Song” Music of the French and Indian War
Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets are available online at www.barracks.org. $25; $20 for Old Barracks Association Members.
The Practitioners of Musick ensemble was founded to survey the musical riches of 17th- and 18th-century Great Britain and Ireland and the Colonial and early Federal periods in America. The ensemble has presented or supported scholarly programs under the auspices of the National Park Service, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the National Trust of Great Britain, Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University, Historic Deerfield, The New Jersey State Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, The Holland Society of New York, New Jersey Historical Society, Crossroads of the American Revolution, The New Jersey Historical Commission, The Princeton University Library, Glucksman Ireland House of New York University, and the Yale Center for British Art amongst many others.
John Burkhalter and harpsichordist Donovan Klotzbeacher studied organ at the University of Minnesota under Heinrich Fleischer will be joined by soprano Rebecca Mariman.
