The Maine Friends of Music will perform a varied Baroque and Beyond concert on Tuesday, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Union Congregational Church The program will include music by Boismortier, Couperin, Devienne, Mozart, Beethoven, Field, Faure, and Joplin.

The Maine Friends of Music chamber group is known for its varied programs, and this concert carries on that tradition.  Members of the ensemble are Sean Fleming, piano and harpsichord; Linda Brunner, flute; and David DeBolt, bassoon.

The concert will begin with a suite of dance music for bassoon by the French composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Selections from Couperin's "Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts" will follow; a piece in which the harpsichord and the full ensemble alternate. A flute sonata by Devienne, the “French Mozart,” a movement from Mozart's sonata in B-flat major for bassoon, and a beautiful nocturne for solo composer by the Irish composer John Field, a predecessor to Chopin, will be played.

The concert will end with a set of variations for flute, bassoon and forte-piano written by a teenage Ludwig Beethoven, and an arrangement for the full group of Scott Joplin's “The Entertainer.”

The church is located at the corner of Maine State Route 129 and Middle Road in South Bristol.

Admission is free, but donations are always accepted.

For more on the musicians, visit www.mainefriendsofmusic.com.