The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College in collaboration with Interlochen Center for the Arts will present Barbara Furtuna & Constantinople on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:30 PM in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center. Tickets for the concert are $30 in advance ($27 for museum members) and $35 at the door. Call the Milliken Auditorium Box office at 231-995-1553 or MyNorthTickets: 800-836-0717 for tickets or purchase on line at www.dennosmuseum.org or http://tickets.interlochen.org/pas.
Witness two outstanding ensembles combine their talents for one powerful evening of music. Listen to the groups here and here.
This performance is a rare treat to see two outstanding ensembles combine their talents. Barbara Furtuna is a Corsican a capella quartet, and Constantinople is a Montreal-based trio that explores music of the eastern Mediterranean and places beyond.
“We are excited by this opportunity to collaborate with Interlochen Center for the Arts to bring such an amazing performance to the Milliken Auditorium,” says Gene Jenneman, Executive Director of the Dennos Museum Center, “These two outstanding groups performing together are perfect for the acoustics and intimacy of the Milliken. This will be a concert not to be missed.”
Barbara Furtuna is a polyphonic Corsican group of four men. Even though the group still finds its inspiration in the island’s oldest traditions, it is now distinguished by its own creations and offers music that answers our contemporary longings.
The group has been present on the international scene for the last 10 years. The quartet has shown that it could transcend a single register and that traditional music still has the ability to surprise us and to move us.
Constantinople is a group that draws its inspiration from the music of the Mediterranean, the classical Persian tradition, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Since its inception in 1998, the ensemble has sought a unique mode of expression and creative ways to perform medieval and Renaissance music,
combining the study of ancient manuscripts with the living oral traditions of the Near and Middle East —specifically the classical Persian tradition.
Led by setar player Kiya Tabassian, the group uses early European instruments such as the lute, vihuela, medieval harp, viola de gamba, vieille, recorder, cornetto and shawm, along with Middle Eastern instruments such as the setar (a plucked-string instrument from Persia), the tombak, daf and dayereh (Persian percussion instruments), and the oud.
Very active on the Montreal music scene, Constantinople has already recorded five albums and was granted the Opus “discovery of 2003” award by the Conseil québécois de la musique in January 2004.
In addition to the concert, the Dennos Museum Center’s galleries will be open for ticket holders for an hour prior to the concert and following the performance.
The Dennos concert season is made possible with support from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Trust, the Osterlin Performance Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, with media support from WNMC 90.7, and TV 29&8. Housing for our performers is provided by the Cambria Suites.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday’s until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at1410 College Drive, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.