Midtown Concerts presents Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction

This Easy & Agreeable Instrument: the English Guittar in duet, song, and chamber music.

The English guittar (2 ts, like the cittern) was wildly popular in Georgian England. Its popularity spread throughout the British Empire and into the United States. Its brilliant flowering was brief, however, disappearing by 1800. Rather than a proper guitar, it was a 6-string instrument strung with brass. The leading composers of Georgian England all offered music for the guittar: Geminiani, J.C. Bach, R. Straube, and James Oswald. This concert offers a survey of some of this delightful and rare chamber music: Scottish and English duets and songs and Italian arias.