Join OBC’s Ensemble Primo Seicento on March 5 at 7 pm in Central Lutheran Church.

Music of Pleasure and Desire features Ensemble Primo Seicento in early music for cornetto, trombones, voices, and organ, in the beautifully resonant space of Central Lutheran Church. This is largely music written and published in Venice, but with a new musical style spread rapidly to the rest of Europe. We will perform motets by G. M. Cesare, an Italian who worked in Augsburg and Munich, and Andreas Hammerschmidt, who adapted the Italian style to music in German, for Lutherans.

Venetian music featured on the program is by Riccio, Legrenzi, Marini, Neri, and Cima. Spanning the years from 1617 to 1655, this was a period of great diversity when the beginnings of the trio sonata and other modern developments could be heard mixed with the old modal system.

Ensemble Primo Seicento includes Doug Sears, cornetto and tenor; John Loughran, tenor; Barrett Codieck, Baroque trombone and recorder; Bodie Pfost, Baroque trombone and bass; and Margret Gries, organ.

Admission is free. Suggested donation: $15 for general admission, $12 for seniors, and $5 for students.