PURCELL 2 Hornpipes from King Arthur – APOLLO’S FIRE, Jeannette Sorrell

Henry Purcell Two Hornpipes from King Arthur This is an excerpt from the live performance of “RESILIENCE: Music for Troubled Times“ Performed October 10, 2020 at First Baptist Church. APOLLO’S FIRE Jeannette Sorrell, Artistic Director Kathie Stewart, Recorder Olivier Brault, violin Susanna Perry Gilmore, violin Emi Tanabe, violin Andrew Fouts, viola Rebecca Landell Reed, viola da gamba Brian Kay, baroque guitar RESILIENCE – Music for Troubled Times London, 1665: A year-long plague held the city in its grip, but haunting folk ballads and laments of Dowland and Purcell wafted from the windows of empty streets. Two centuries later, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery could not prevent Americans – black and white – from singing in joyous harmony at the end of the Civil War. In this new program from Jeannette Sorrell, 12 musicians conjure up these two historic pandemics through music, diaries and poems as we celebrate the resilience of the hum