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By Wendy Weinberg
Special to the Rappahannock News
On Saturday, October 8 at 8:00 p.m. at the Theatre at Washington, Virginia, the “Smithsonian at Little Washington” series, now in its fourteenth year, presents the Smithsonian Consort of Viols in a program of 17th-century English instrumental music spanning from the end of the reign of Elizabeth I to the time of Charles II.
This period of British history was particularly eventful, marked as it was by the execution of Charles I in 1649, the 21-year interregnum period which followed, and the restoration of Charles II as King of England in 1660. Under Elizabeth, James,I, and Charles I, the art of playing chamber music on sets, or consorts, of viols was cultivated to a very high degree.
The program for October 8 includes music for consorts of viols by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Lupo, Thomas Tomkins, Matthew Locke, and Henry Purcell. If all but the last of these names are rather unfamiliar, it is only because
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