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Thomas Dunford, Lute
When
Sunday, March 23, 2025 | 3PM & 6PM
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Where
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Tickets
General: $40 | Student: $10 | Princeton University Student: Free through Passport to the Arts.
The Eric Clapton of the lute”
—BBC Magazine
Performances Up Close
About the Event
Part of our Performances Up Close series, audience is seated onstage alongside the musicians in an hour-long program.
Following his unforgettable appearance with the Jupiter Ensemble as part of our 2022-23 season, Thomas Dunford now treats us to a program of works for solo lute that are sure to be a testimony to his reputation as a “rockstar of historical performance,” weaving through-lines from early music to pop classics.
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Part of our Performances Up Close series, audience is seated onstage alongside the musicians in an hour-long program.
Following his unforgettable appearance with the Jupiter Ensemble as part of our 2022-23 season, Thomas Dunford now treats us to a program of works for solo lute that are sure to be a testimony to his reputation as a “rockstar of historical performance,” weaving through-lines from early music to pop classics.
Program
Thomas Dunford made spontaneous program selections from the following list, not in chronological order:
- JOHN DOWLAND
A Dream; The King of Denmark’s Galliard; Melancholy Galliard; Mrs. Winter’s Jump; Lachrimae; Frog Galliard
- ERIK SATIE, arr. Thomas Dunford
Gymnopédie No. 1
- MARIN MARAIS, arr. Thomas Dunford
Les Voix Humaines in D Major (from Suite No. 3)
L’Americaine in E Major (from Suite d’un Goût Etranger) - ERIK SATIE, arr. Thomas Dunford
Gnossienne No. 1
- J.S. BACH, arr. Dunford
Suite for Cello in G Major, BW 1007
Chaconne from Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004. - GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Toccata VI (from Primo Libro d’intavolatura de lauto)
- JOAN AMBROSIO DALZA
Calata alla Spagnola (from Quarto Libro d’intavolatura de lauto)
- Lennon-McCartney
Blackbird
Yesterday - George Harrison
Something
- John Lennon
Imagine
- Thomas Dunford
Original Compositions and Improvisations
