Music from the Time of Charles de La Tour! Included in our regular admissions.
An entertaining 30-minute program of French songs and dances played by Tim Blackmore on copies of 17th century recorders like those the inhabitants of Fort La Tour would have known. He enlivens his performance with entertaining comments about the music and instruments of the time. One of the pieces he plays is the “Courante de Mme de La Tour”, a haunting dance tune from the Perche region of France where Françoise-Marie Jacquelin spent her childhood.
Tim Blackmore
Harpsichordist, pianist and recorder player Tim Blackmore is the Artistic Director of the Early Music Studio of Saint John. A graduate of the Montreal Conservatoire, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Guildhall School of Music in London, his performances and recordings have received accolades from critics and audiences in major centres such as New York, Paris, London, Montreal and Toronto. He regularly collaborates with leading classical musicians and organizations in New Brunswick such as Symphony New Brunswick and the Saint John String Quartet.