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The Jefferson Project: A First Look (EMAP)

David McCormick (baroque violin) and Loren Ludwig (viola da gamba) from Early Music Access Project present a musical preview of The Jefferson Project, a collaboration with the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. Supporters of both organizations are invited to this exclusive event to celebrate our partnership and learn more about the project. This event is free, but space is very limited and must be reserved in advance. A reception will follow the brief concert.

The Jefferson Project aims to tell the story of music at Monticello through a series of four concerts that will be the outgrowth of research by Artistic Director and baroque violinist David McCormick as a 2020 Fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Musicologist and viola da gamba player Loren Ludwig will join McCormick in the Fellowship and as a performer.

Each concert will focus on different aspects of music-making in Jefferson's Virginia, to include music in the Monticello collection (Jefferson was a violinist and the women of the family were keyboard and guitar players); music from the James River Music Book, a colonial Virginia manuscript recently unearthed in Richmond; and folk music of various origins likely heard in and around Monticello. And, vital to this project, were aiming to present music played and sung by enslaved Virginians, music long silenced but essential to the Monticello music story.

Learn more at www.earlymusiccville.org.