John and Marie are our locals but I pinch myself when I say it. Like many who spend time studying and performing in European music circles, they are wonderful, informed and skilled but they are here and super friendly and helpful and open. A concert with John is a fireside chat with delicious music. He joked at one stage of changes of movement between styles of music, from modern through to early or vice-versa, but that they had settled on baroque. And baroque it was. Early 1600s to later 1700s with CPE Bach. All played with skill but also knowledge and joy. What a pleasure. So today it was CPE Bach to start, then going back in time to Schmelzer, Telemann, Uccelini and Fischer. A few movements dropped to fit in the time allotted, which they admitted to sometimes overreaching. This was just a casual Wednesday lunchtime concert, with a grand performance 4-harpsichord-and-strings feature coming on Saturday. Expect no less from our much loved John and Marie. BTW, the program also said that Marie is also studying jazz piano. Enquiring minds!
John Ma (violin) and Marie Searles (harpsichord) performed at Wesley.
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