Start the weekend right with great music in a relaxed setting
Welcome to our fourteenth season!
We have a great line-up of concerts for our fourteenth season—welcoming back some of our favorite artists and meeting musicians new to our Happy Hour series. Along the way there will be a chance to hear what may be familiar pieces from the Early Music and Baroque repertoire, but they’ll also be plenty of opportunities to discover fresh compositions that will expand your musical horizons. What’s best—all of it is gorgeous music to lift our spirits and deepen our sense of wonder and beauty in the world. You can click here to see a full listing of our amazing season. We think you’ll be excited by the line-up, and we look forward to seeing you at a concert soon, or having you join us online.
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Our final concert of the season…
Friday, May 8, 2026, 6:00 pm MDT
MUSICKE’S CORDES
Samuel Breene and Jeffrey Noonan
“Where Music Is,
No Evil Thing Can Be”
Spanish Influence in
the 16th and 17th Centuries
Taken from Don Quixote, Musicke’s Cordes’ program title recognizes the remarkable power of music across the centuries. With Europe’s exploration of “a New World,” Spain sat as a gateway to the Americas, a window on Africa, and a source of inspiration to the rest of Europe with new instruments and new rhythms. This program explores Spanish music, Spanish interpretations of New World musics, and even interpretations of these interpretations by Italian, French and German musicians. Ranging from the Renaissance into the late 17thcentury, these small gems celebrate virtuosic variations, sultry passacailles, toe-tapping ciaconnas and more for baroque violin, early guitars, and theorbo. You won’t want to miss this wonderful conclusion to our fourteenth season!
The Performers
Samuel Breene – Baroque violin
Jeffrey Noonan – vihuela, lute, theorbo, and early guitars
Click here to learn more about the artists.
Tickets will go on sale around April 6.
The Program
THE OLD WORLD
Romanesca: O guardame las vacas – Alonso Mudarra (c.1510 – 1580)
from Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela (1546)
Recarcada segunda (sobre el Passamezzo Moderno) – Diego Ortiz (c.1510 – c.1576)
from Trattado de Glosas (1553)
Fantasía 1 – Luys Milán (c. 1500 – c.1561)
from Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro (1536)
Recercada Quinta (sobre Passamezzo Antico) – Ortiz
Fantasía X que contrehaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico – Mudarra
Three Recercadas – Ortiz
Recercada Primo (sobre Passamezzo Antico)
Recercada Settima (sobre Passamezzo Antico)
Recercada Ottava (La gamba)
TRANSITIONS
Canzon seconda – Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde (c. 1595 – after 1638)
from Canzoni, Fantasie et Correnti: Da suonar ad una 2.3.4. (1638)
Chiaccona in partite variate – Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
from Intavolatura di Liuto, et di Chitarrone, Libro Primo (1623)
Canzon terza – Selma y Salaverde
Romanesca per Violino Solo e Basso se piace – Biagio Marini (1597-1665)
from Arie, madrigali et corenti (1620)
Romanesca—Gagliarda—Corrente
THE NEW WORLD AND BEYOND
Preludio & Chiacona – Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615 – 1681)
from Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola (1648)
Faronells Division on a Ground (La Folia) – Michel Farinel (1649-1726)
from The Division-Violin (1684)
Prelude du mesme – Robert de Viseé (c. 1655 – 1732/3)
from Chaconne…augmentée par Mr. De Visée
(Saizenay manuscript, 1669; Bibliothèque municipale, Besançon)
Sonata Quarta – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620 – 1680)
from Sonatae Unarum Fideum (1664)
All concerts are at
Epiphany Lutheran Church
790 S. Corona in Denver
near Washington Park
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What people are saying
- “The epitome of Baroque!”
- “This is the most completely civilized way to start a weekend! It’s a short break from the frantic busyness of life to just sit, sip a little wine, and listen to great music.”
- “I love the format and the time of the concerts – the perfect way to unwind after a busy work week”
- “Just right for a Friday evening wind-down. I sit in a lovely and calm place with a nice glass of wine and listen to beautiful and live music that I do not hear anywhere else, which makes me forget about the world for a little while.”
- “It’s the perfect way to start a weekend! We get beautiful music, and there’s plenty of time for dinner afterwards.”