Program: Love Is But A Jest

Love is but a Jest: Songs for Lovers and Fools – Although the lute was primarily an instrument that thrived during the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, with imagination our quartet has realized accompaniments for music from later periods.  Using a theme based on minstrelsy and foolery, we have drawn together a concert that not only embraces Renaissance lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries, but also Medieval songs, Classical songs by Mendelssohn and Rossini, several songs by early American composers and some contemporary songs by Billy Taylor, Stephen Sondheim and Simon and Garfunkel.  Audiences go away with the pleasure of hearing music they have heard in other venues accompanied by the sweet sonorities of the lute.