2024-25 Season
Saint Clare, Joseph Désiré Court, c. 1838
Amoris Domicilium: A Montana Vespers
Four singers join the instrumentalists of BaMM in a program of sacred music that balances spiritual ecstasy, baroque virtuosity, and emotional intimacy.
Locations
9/11 Messiah Lutheran Church, Red Lodge | 9/12 Prescott Hall, Billings | 9/13 Holter Museum of Art, Helena | 9/14 Trinity Episcopal Church, Jeffers | 9/15 Peace of Christ Church, Bozeman
Performers
Andrea Zomorodian, soprano | Sylvia Leith, mezzo-soprano | Steven Soph, tenor | Edmund Muilly, bass-baritone | Carrie Krause & Manami Mizomoto, violins | Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello | John Lenti, theorbo
Program
| From Missa non sine quare: Kyrie and Gloria | Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693) |
| Aria con variazioni | Giovanni Valentini (1582-1649) |
| Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe | Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) |
| From Membra Jesu Nostri: Ad pectus | Buxtedhude |
| Capriccio Sopra Sette Note, from Messa e Salmi Op. 14: Magnificat a 4 con violini | Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) |
| Es ist nun aus mit meinem leben | Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) |
Indian Paintbrush, photo by Judy Tsiang
I Melt Like Snow in the Sun of Your Beauty
Sacred and profane love songs from the 17th century from the album, I Melt Like Snow in the Sun of Your Beauty, featuring soprano Arwen Myers.
Locations
11/20 Home of Tim Coulter & Sam Sanchez Helena | 11/21 Painting Studio of Clyde Aspevig & Carol Guzman Bozeman | 11/22 Prescott Hall at Rocky Mountain College Billings
Performers
Arwen Myers, soprano | Carrie Krause, baroque violin | Nate Helgeson, dulcian | John Lenti, theorbo
Program
| La viscontea & La pighetta | Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) |
| Capriccio | Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570-1622) |
| “Io son ferito” | Giovanni Palestrina (-1594)/Battista Bovicelli (1550-1594) |
| Sonata due corde | Biagio Marini (1594-1663) |
| Sonata Nona | Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630) |
| Sonata Terza á due | Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684) |
| “Herr went ich nur dich habe” | Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) |
| C major fantasy | Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (c1595-c1638) |
| Sonata á due | Johann Michael Nicolai (1629-1685) |
| “Ed è pur dunque vero” | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) |
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, drawn by her Husband Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861) in 1829, the year they were married
“Fabulous Fanny”: A Concert Journey of the Mendelssohn’s Berlin
Exploration of Fanny Mendelssohn’s musical world in Berlin.
Locations
1/7 American Prairie Center Lewistown | 1/8 Coulter House Helena | 1/10 Old Main Gallery & Framing Bozeman | 1/11 Columbus Community Church Columbus | 1/12 Calvary Episcopal Church Red Lodge
Performers
Davina Clarke, violin | Carrie Krause, violin | Maureen Murchie, viola | Michael Unterman, cello
Program
| String Quartet Op 76 No 3 “Kaiser” (1799) | Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
| String Quartet Op 130 “La Cavatina” (1826) | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| Entr’acte’s from “Struensee” (1844) | Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) |
| “Christus hat uns ein Vorbild gellasse” & “Chorale du Dessen Augen Flosen” from Tod Jesu (1755) | Johann Gottleib Graun (1703-1771) |
| String Quartet in E-flat (1834) | Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) |
Marco Ricci (1676-1730)
Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
Ensemble music of Bach and Vivaldi
Locations
1/24 Big Timber Lutheran Church Big Timber | 1/25 Holbrook Methodist Church Livingston | 1/26 Hope Lutheran Church Bozeman
Performers
Carrie Krause leader & solo violin | Jihye Sung & Pico Alt violin | Brett Wlfish viola | Julia Slovarp cello | Suzanne Ford bass | Julie Gosswiler harpsichord
Program
| Orchestral Suite No 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 | J.S. Bach (1685-1750) |
| “The Four Season” | Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) |
Four Female Musicians, Luca Giordano (1634-1705)
Handel’s Messiah
Presented by Baroque Music Montana and Roots in the Sky. Andrew Major, conductor | Carrie Krause, concertmaster
Locations
3/28 Holy Rosary Catholic Church Bozeman | 3/29 Hope Lutheran Church Bozeman | 3/30 St. Paul Lutheran Church Missoula
Performers
Sarah Moyer, soprano | Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano | James Reese, tenor | Edmund Milly | bass-baritone
Program
| Messiah | George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) |
1770 coin of Voltaire (1694-1778)
Candide’s Voltaire
Music related to French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire.
Locations
4/3 Yellowstone Art Museum Billings
Performers
Arwen Myers, soprano | Andrew Bearden Brown, tenor | Carrie Krause, baroque violin | Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba | John Lenti, theorbo
Program
| Rondeau | François Francouer (1698-1787) |
| Tota pulchra es | André Campra (1660-1744) |
| Vos mépris chaque jour | Michel Lambert (1610-1696) |
| Chaconne | M.P. de Montéclair (1667-1737) |
| “Je vivrai” from Roland | Niccolò Piccinni (1728-1800) |
| “O Mort” (Prison Song) from Fêtes Ramire | Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) |
| “Fairest Isle” from King Arthur | Henry Purcell (1659-1695) |
| Un Momento di Contento | G.F. Handel (1685-1759) |
| Thou turn’std this world | Purcell |
| Ah, qu’on est malheureux | M.A. Charpentier (1643-1704) |
| “Tristes apprêts” from Castor et Pollux | Rameau |
| Canon from Musical Offering | J.S. Bach (1685-1750) |
| Where’er You Walk | Handel |
| Aux plaisirs, aux délices bergères | Pierre Guédron (c1750-c1620) |
| La Portugaise | Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745) |
| Tuo Durodo é mio Rivale | Handel |
| “Happy We” from Acis and Galatea | Handel |
| O fair Cedaria | Purcell |
| His golden locks | John Dowland (1573-1626) |
| Les voix humaines | Marin Marais (1656-1728) |
| “Enfin je vous revois…Je vais punir une barbare” from La Temple de la Gloire | Rameau |
Excerpt from Groep herders maakt plezier in de zomer, by Gesina ter Borch, 1654
The Thistle
Music from Cape Breton, Acadia, 18th century Scotland and the borders, as well as original music inspired by these ancient traditions.
Locations
6/18 Lachapelle-Krause backyard, Bozeman | 6/19 Holter Museum of Art, Helena | 6/20 Big Sky Center for the Arts, Big Sky | 6/21 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Virginia City | 6/21 Ringling Church, Ringling | 6/22 Community Congregational Church, Columbus
Performers
Carrie Krause, baroque violin | David Greenburg, baroque violin, octave violin | Chris Norman, flutes, bagpipes, voice
Program
| Edward – Fair an’ Lucky | arr. Greenberg & Norman |
| Minuet in A, with variations | William McGibbon (1690-1756) |
| Minuet ‘Edward the Second’ | William Dixon MS (1734) |
| Hartigan’s Fancy jig | Irish traditional, Cape Breton setting |
| Fair an Lucky jig | “Very Old” in William Christie Collection (1820) |
| Lady Elisabeth Montague’s jig & reel | Robert Mackintosh (c.1745-1807) |
| The Crocus & The Thistle | James Oswald (1711-1769) |
| The Bonfire & The Doodle | Chris Norman (Bonfire) & David Greenberg (Doodle) |
| Québécois Tunes | |
| Galope St. Blandine | Trad. from Isidore Soucy (1899-1962) |
| Talencourt Gigue | Trad. from Saguency region, Quebec |
| English Triple Hornpipes | |
| Mrs. Savage’s Whim | Young’s Dancing Master vol. 1 (1713) |
| Young Damon’s Flight | Young’s Dancing Master vol. 2 (1718) |
| Telemann’s Turn from Sonata in E Minor: Affetuoso – Vivace | Georg Phillip Telemann (1681-1767) |
| Mad Dog | |
| Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) |
| The British Press marching air | Alexander Walker Collection (1866) |
| Miss Hog of Newliston’s reel | Robert Mackintosh (c.1745-1806) |
| Lady Chatherine Pelham’s reel | Mackintosh |
| We’ll Aye Gang Back to yon Town reel | Alexander Walker Collection |
| Let Me In This Ae Night reel | “An old Reel” in Mackintosh Collection |
| Miss Grace Speirs of Elderslie’s reel | Mackintosh |
| Scattering of the Stars | Norman |
| Doddington Lads | Dixon MS (c.1733) |
The Masked Comedian Playing a Guitar c. 1622 by Jacques Callot (1592-1635)
Mad Mask: Fun and Games in Commedia dell’arte
Exploring the commedia dell’arte tradition of masks, stock characters, and improvisation.
Locations
8/1 Park County Senior Center, Livingston | 8/14 Lachapelle-Krause House, Bozeman | 8/19 Kania House, Shepherd | 8/20 Sweet Grass Arts Theater, Big Timber | 8/21 Last Best Comedy Club, Bozeman | 8/22 Coulter House, Helena | 8/23 Montana Artists Refuge, Basin | 8/23 Trinity Episcopal Church, Jeffers
Performers
Mace Perlman, Actor/The Masks | Carrie Krause & Lindsey Strand-Polyak, Baroque Violin | Keiran Campbell, Baroque Cello | John Lenti, Theorbo/Baroque Guitar
Program
| Overture | |
| Sinfonia from La Calisto (Venice) | Francisco Cavalli (1602-1676) |
| Chapter 1: Pantalone | |
| Ciaccona for Solo Cello (Modena) | Guiseppe Columbi (1635-1694) |
| Intermezzo | |
| Ciaccona | Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) |
| Chapter 2: Arlecchino | |
| Sonata IV a2, from Sonate Concertante in Stile Moderno, Book 1 (Venice) | Dario Castello (1602-1631) |
| Sonata no. 4, Op. 7, Ozio Regio (Modena) | Marco Uccellini (1603-1680) |
| Intermezzo | |
| Colascione (Rome) | Giralomo Kapsberger (1580-1651) |
| Chapter 3: Brighella (Scappino) | |
| Recercada Settima Sobre los Tenores “Romanesca” (Naples) | Diego Oritz (1510-1576) |
| Sonata sopra “La Monica” (Bergamo/Venice) | Biagio Marini (1594-1663) |
| Chapter 4: Il Dottore | |
| Ricercare Primo (Modena) | Domenico Gabrielli (1659-1680) |
| Sinfonia in A Major, La Comodina (Bologna) II. Allegro | Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747) |
| Chapter 5: Il Capitano | |
| Passacalle and Folias echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Carellanos (Naples) | Andrea Falconieri (1595-1656) |