Dick Hensold

The 4th-most-popular instrument in the 18th-century (by numbers of publications—after keyboard, violin, and flute) was the French Baroque chamber bagpipe, then called the musette. Hundreds of publications survive for this instrument, many by excellent composers unknown to modern audiences because they specialized in an instrument that is usually never heard today, and wrote music adapted to instruments with a prominent drone texture—many of these pieces just don’t sound right without the drones, so are rarely performed. Most of this repertoire is chamber music, written for small ensembles of varying sizes, so bagpiper Dick Hensold will be joined on this program by soprano Maria Jette, harpsichordist Bruce Jacobs, violinist Joe Dolson, and flutist Anita Rieder. For further info, please see: https://dickhensold.com/musette-music-concert