Cello & Theorbo Underground
Event Date:
Saturday, January 16, 2027
Event Time:
7 PM
Advance Tickets until 5 pm on 1/16: $40; at the door, if available: $45
As an alternative to online ticketing, call the cave at 830.537.4212 during regular business hours to purchase tickets by phone. All tickets are will-call on the concert evening.
Joseph Kuipers , cello · Andrew Flory , theorbo
'Cellist Joseph Kuipers and theorbo player Andrew Flory bring together music separated by centuries in an intimate program exploring the cello as a singing voice. Moving freely between the seventeenth century and the present, the program draws on the haunting viol music of Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais, and Antoine Forqueray; the songs and laments of Dowland and Purcell; and music by Bach, Satie, Casals, and Arvo Pärt.
At its center is the extraordinary sound of cello and theorbo—two instruments whose dark, resonant colors seem equally at home in ancient music and in the stillness and simplicity of the modern works.
The program will draw from works including:
Saint Columba the son — Prelude
John Dowland — Lachrimae Antiquae
Marin Marais — selections from Pièces de viole, including
The Dreamer
Country Fairs
The Joke
The Follies of Spain
Human voices
Grand Ballet
The Whirlpool
Antoine Forqueray —
The Leclair
The Bush
Henry Purcell — Dido's Lament
CF Abel — selected music for viola da gamba
JS Bach — selections from Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011
Erik Satie — selected works
Pablo Casals — El cant dels ocells
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
Lennon/McCartney — Blackbird'
