Ruckus with Emi Ferguson, flute | Fly the Coop
Event details
- Saturday | February 18, 2023 | 7:30 PM
- Tickets are available. Purchase online or at the box office at Hobby Center beginning at 6:30 PM Saturday.
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
- 800 Bagby St, Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
- Tickets: $37.50-$67.50
“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination.”
— The New York Times
Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach
Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes
Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Clay Zeller-Townson, basson; Paul Holmes Morton, guitar; Stephen Stubbs, lute; Evan Premo, bass
Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.
“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times
“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer
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