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October 27, 2005
Multi-talented KSL Staff: Stephen Toombs and Mary Burns
Kelvin Smith Library is blessed with staff who have talents beyond their regular library positions. Yesterday evening, Mary Burns, KSL Special Collections Cataloger, and Stephen Toombs, Head of Kulas Music Library, presented a recital of music for soprano and theorbo (a large cousin of the lute) and baroque guitar (a smaller and more delicate sounding version of what we know today as the classical acoustic guitar). The program, "Le Nuove Musiche: Music in Italy and England in the 17th Century," presented at Grace Lutheran Church in Cleveland Heights, included lute songs in English and Italian by Thomas Campion, Giulio Caccini, and Claudio Monteverdi, among others, and some very intriguing solo works for baroque guitar by Francesco Corbetta.
Both performers are well-versed in historically informed performance and made convincing cases for this virtuosic music. The acoustics church, with its high ceiling and stone floor, was an excellent venue for the performance.
Posted by tdr at October 27, 2005 11:53 AM
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