Hopkinson Smith

Hopkinson Smith, lute
Dowland's Europe

Commemorating the 450th anniversary of the great English composer, the great American lutenist performs a program of Dowland and his contemporaries, featuring selections from the 1611 publications Premier Livre of Robert Ballard, Il Libro Primo d’Intavolatura di Lauto of Girolamo Giovanni Kapsberger, and Dowland's Varietie of Lute Lessons, published in 1610.

The program offers a glimpse of not only the great variety in the lute publications of these two years, but the beginning of national styles that were to flourish into the 18th century.

This exciting event will be presented in the Fabbri Mansion's reconstructed 15th century Library, brought to New York from Italy and reassembled here during World War I.