Aulos Ensemble Performance Preview—

Warm, Spirited And Sensitive Music, November 6 At Edmond Town Hall

Over the past three decades, The Aulos Ensemble has established an enviable reputation as a pioneering period-instruments group, not only exploring widely the literature of Baroque chamber music, but setting a rarely matched standard for stylistic expertise and artistic vibrancy. This is the ensemble that has helped solidify today’s period-instrument movement in this country.

Newtown Friends of Music will host their return to the Edmond Town Hall stage in concert on Sunday, November 6, at 2 pm. The beguiling sound of period instruments enchants and delights audiences who can experience the music as it was written and performed in the days of the composers.

Aulos members are Christopher Krueger, flauto traverso; Marc Schachman, baroque oboe; Linda Quan, baroque violin; Myron Lutzke, baroque violoncello; and Arthur Haas harpsichord.

The Aulos players are accomplished both as individuals and as team members. The make-up of the ensemble is noted for remarkable virtuosity and permits a wide variety of instrumental experiences. Aulos brings skill and intelligence to its music that are both unusual and refreshing.  Reviewers have printed raves, saying “Ensemble enchants with esoteric ease,” “transports listeners to 18th Century France,” and even “The Aulos Ensemble’s playing is so untroubled and brilliant, so perfect, so absolute! It is the highest level of music making.”

In addition to their rigorous performance schedule, Aulos gives master classes and lecture-demonstrations in 17th and 18th Century performance practice at colleges and universities throughout the country. With its members serving on faculties of various schools of music and institutes specializing in historically informed performance, Aulos is responsible for training a new generation of American early-music performers.

Aulos held Newtown audiences spellbound in 2005, when they performed an elegant program by candlelight at Newtown Meeting House for the town’s 300th birthday celebration.  For their return visit on November 6, Aulos has chosen a program entitled “Music at Versailles: A Royal Entertainment” with musical gems by Rameau, Couperin and Balbastre.

Single tickets for just this performance are available at the Edmond Town Hall box office for $20, cash or check only. Students K-12 are admitted free of charge when accompanied by a ticket-holding adult. The box office will open at 1 pm the afternoon of the performance.

Tickets may be purchased in advance by sending check and self-addressed envelope to Newtown Friends of Music, at PO Box 295, Newtown CT  06470-0295.

Parking is free behind Edmond Town Hall and the facility is handicapped accessible. An informal reception following the concert will offer concertgoers the opportunity to meet and mingle with the musicians.

For information regarding future events and to print out an order form for this or other concerts, visit www.NewtownFriendsOfMusic.org or call 203-426-6470.