![]() You have a driving bass line and above it you have stringed instruments, he says. I think some people will be surprised how modern this music sounds, he says.īuxtehude, who lived from around 1637 to 1707, employed a technique called basso ostinato, a repeating bass line, that is also characteristic of rock n roll, Wilhite says. Wilhite is not sure, but he believes this might be the first time a concert devoted completely to Buxtehudes work will be presented in the Portland area. Aidan) at the harpsichord and positive organ. Aidan, on violin and Mark Jones (organist and choirmaster at St. Glisan St.Īlong with Wilhite, the Wildwood Consort will feature soprano Melanie Downie Robinson Everett Redburn on lute and theorbo (plucked stringed instrument) Leslie Hirsch, from St. The ensemble will perform nine vocal and instrumental pieces by Buxtehude during a 3 p.m. The Wildwood Consort likes to unearth unusual composers and play music that is not played in concerts, Wilhite says, and Buxtehude fits that bill. Over the centuries, (Buxtehudes) organ music continued to be played, but a lot of his other music that well be presenting was lost until the 20th century. ∻uxtehude is largely overshadowed by Bach, Wilhite says. Thats right, the famed German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, spent four months in Lübeck, in what is now Germany, where he studied with Dieterich Buxtehude (pronounced ∻ucks-ta-huda).īachs teacher was as famous in his time as Bach later became in his, says Michael Wilhite, the Consorts viola da gamba (bowed string instrument) player. The Wildwood Consort, a classical chamber ensemble, wants to bring audiences ∻ach to where he once belonged.
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