Come and enjoy a light-hearted concert of music that might have been performed in a parlor or for a social gathering in Concord during the colonial period and just afterwards. The program includes: songs composed by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from a collection dedicated to George Washington; a set of keyboard variations to the tune of “Yankee Doodle,” which reportedly was sung as a taunt by the colonists as the British troops retreated from Concord on April 19th and later served as the unofficial hymn of the Continental Army, as well as music by two Boston composers associated with King’s Chapel.
Featuring works by 18th-century American composers: William Selby, William Billings, Francis Hopkinson, and James Hewitt, as well as music by C.P.E. Bach and John Stafford Smith
Robert Barney, portative organ
Ellen Carlson-Dunmire, soprano
Ethel Farny, flute
Sally Sanford, soprano
Anne Hooper Webb, violin
The program will last about an hour.
