Salish Sea Early Music Festival explores Mozart

Virtuoso duos from the last half of the 18th century reflect the changing musical currents of Mozart's lifetime and explore a new relationship between the increasingly popular fortepiano and the flute with Jeffrey Cohan and Henry Lebedinsky on Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound.

Virtuoso duos from the last half of the 18th century reflect the changing musical currents of Mozart’s lifetime and explore a new relationship between the increasingly popular fortepiano and the flute with Jeffrey Cohan and Henry Lebedinsky on Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound.

The program will include works mostly for flute with obbligato keyboard but also for flute with figured bass by flutist François Devienne, Mozart’s publisher Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel who lived with Mozart for two years as a child virtuoso and J.S. Bach’s sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, all written between 1755 and about 1800.

The suggested donation will be $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering). Those 18 and under are free. Visit www.salishseafestival.org/orcas or call 376-6683 for more information.