TENET Vocal Artists: In Darkness Let Me Dwell:  English Lute Songs by Dowland His Contemporaries

MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020
7:00 PM

TENET T()Night Stream

Pay what you wish-$60
https://secure.givelively.org/event/tenet-nyc-inc/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

John Dowland wrote the most delightfully depressed music ever — what Emo would have been if it were good.  His English Renaissance contemporaries were sometimes more lighthearted — but not usually:  the Elizabethans liked their melancholy (even if it was left to a Jacobean successor to really run with it).  I adore this stuff immoderately myself.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   We now know that the second Queen Elizabeth enjoys four drinks per day, God bless her (that's nothing compared to her Mum, of course).  We don't know what the first Queen Elizabeth liked to drink, but the country that beat back the Spanish Armada liked its Sherry.  So, let's recur to that grand classic, the Adonis:  pour 1-1/2 oz. each Fino Sherry and sweet Vermouth, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Stir.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.  Garnish with a lemon twist.