Early Music Concert
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present a concert, “The Viennese Biedermeier Serenade (1815-1835),” at noon on Monday, Feb. 20, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.
Players will include Oleg Timofeyev, one of the world’s leading experts on the seven-string guitar of the Biedermeier period, Lindsey Strand-Polyak, on viola, and Jeffrey Cohan, playing 8-keyed flute.
The concert is part of a monthly series to be presented at the Church. Other concerts will feature such luminaries of early music as harpsichordist Bernhard Lohr; baroque violinist Anne Röhrig, who leads Hannover, Germany’s prominent baroque orchestra Musica Alta Ripa; renowned harpsichordist/organist/fortepianists David Schrader and Hans-Jürgen Schnoor; soprano Maike Albrecht, from Lubeck; lutenist JohnLenti and renaissance bassoonist Anna Marsh.
Donations of $15, $20 or $25 dollars are suggested for all concerts, with those 18 and younger admitted free. Find out more about the season at salishseafestival.org.
Talk on the Rock
Dr. Nancy K. Bristow, a distinguished historian, author and educator, will present a talk, “Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970s Shootings at Jackson State College,” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, at Vashon Center for the Arts.
Early in the morning of May 15, 1970, members of the Jackson, Mississippi police and the Mississippi Highway and Safety Patrol — all white — opened fire on unarmed students at the historically-Black Jackson State College. Two young people were killed and at least 12 were wounded. Though the shooting took place just a little over a week after the Kent State University shootings, it has now been largely forgotten.
In her talk, Bristow will explore the role of white supremacy in the shootings, the unjust aftermath, and the nation’s historical amnesia, as well as the linkages between this history and our ongoing crisis of police brutality against Black citizens.
Purchase tickets to the talk at vashoncenterforthearts.org.
Correction: An “Arts Brief” item published in The Beachcomber’s Feb. 16 print edition and online — a benefit event for Journeymen that included a screening of the documentary film, “Powerlands,” scheduled for Wednesday, March 1, at Vashon High School — has now been postponed.
