CSEM: Hopkinson Smith plays “Mad Dog”—Elizabethan Music

When:
December 8, 2018 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2018-12-08T20:00:00-05:00
2018-12-08T22:00:00-05:00
Where:
Salem Athenaeum
337 Essex St
Salem, MA 01970
USA
Cost:
$25 members; $30 non-members; Free students w/ID
Contact:
CSEM
617-489-2062

The Cambridge Society for Early Music presents lutenist Hopkinson Smith for a concert of inventive music, which traverses realms of melancholy, solace and merriment, with works of Dowland, Holborne, Johnson, and Byrd.

Hopkinson Smith is a world-renowned performer on early lutes and guitars. A Harvard graduate, he studied in Catalonia and Switzerland, and in 1974 he was a co-founder of the famous ensemble Hespèrion XX in Basel. He has focused on solo music since the mid-1980s. His splendid series of more than 25 CDs, including lute arrangements of Bach’s works for solo strings, have been showered with praise.

His recent CD, fancifully entitled “Mad Dog,” is devoted to the Golden Age of Elizabethan lute music. The BBC called it “mesmerizing,” and it won a Diapason d’Or award.

$30 | $25 seniors & Athenaeum members | students free
Information: www.csem.org | 617-489-2062

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