Boston Early Music Festival Presents: Pacific Musicworks with Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano

Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Dowland, William Lawes, Purcell, and others

GRAMMY winner Stephen Stubbs brings Pacific MusicWorks to Boston for their BEMF début in a musical journey into the atmosphere and aftermath of the English Civil War. The years leading up to the start of the war in 1642 were full of riotous discord, reflected in the popular “Broadside Ballads.” At the same moment, William Lawes, the greatest English musical genius between Dowland and Purcell, was producing vocal and instrumental music of unparalleled beauty. Lawes would lose his life in battle, but his musical legacy achieved the perfect balance of emotion, words, and music. Sensational soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah joins the ensemble for a fascinating program that sheds insight into this turbulent period.

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