Música Antigua de Albuquerque will present " Did You Hear?", a concert of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, featuring tales of composers whose personal lives were troubled by scandal and drama. Narrator Kathy Wimmer will fill us in on the details as we go. The music will be performed with voices and period …
From the rich legacy of psalm settings, our season finale juxtaposes music from the Jewish and Christian traditions. In convertendo (Psalm 126) from the operatic master Jean-Philippe Rameau infuses the psalmist's words with flair and passion, while companion pieces by Salamone Rossi and J. S. Bach infuse psalm texts with sonorous counterpoint. Featuring: Erica Schuller, …
Music played by the female, virtuosic musicians of Baroque Venice. Meet the women who were heard not seen. Baroque Venice’s orphanages provided extensive musical training for the girls that ended up in them. Many stayed all their lives and became the most celebrated virtuosic musicians in Europe. The women performed behind lattice screens, inviting an …
With a tip of our hat to Dave Brubeck’s famous ground-breaking hit, “Take Five,” Sarasa brings the lush sound of the cello to the fore in music arranged and written for four cellos. A wide range of eras and styles from Josquin des Prez to J.S. Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Fauré and Brubeck …
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Join us for an unforgettable evening on May 13th at 7:30 pm at Christ Church as our talented ensemble brings to life the intricate and rich sounds of French Baroque music. Our baroque musical forces include 10 singers, baroque violins, baroque flute, theorbo, organ, and harpsichord. Culminating in a stunning performance of Charpentier's Le Reniement …
Special Concert! Global Connections PHILIP GLASS HARPSICHORD CONCERTO TICKET NOT YET ON SALE In-person and Virtual Members of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Auburn Symphony join forces to revive the Concerto for Harpsichord by Philip Glass. Premiered in Seattle by the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and harpsichord soloist Jillon Stoppels Dupree in 2002, Dupree returns to …
Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal joins Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, renaissance lute) in a program of music from the Stuart courts. There will be songs by Dowland, Coperario, and Johnson, and instrumental fantasias and dance music by Johnson, Dowland, Sumarte and Hume. Ms. Dellal will sing “Sweet birds deprive us never” …
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With a tip of our hat to Dave Brubeck’s famous ground-breaking hit, “Take Five,” Sarasa brings the lush sound of the cello to the fore in music arranged and written for four cellos. A wide range of eras and styles from Josquin des Prez to J.S. Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Fauré and Brubeck …
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La Donna Musicale presents a concert of Italian Baroque women composers. The program features their settings of prayers to the Virgin, a powerful Stabat Mater, and a dialogue between Mary and Eve the mother of God and the mother of humankind. It also includes a motet for two voices that illustrates the martyrdom and invincibility of …
Music played by the female, virtuosic musicians of Baroque Venice. Meet the women who were heard not seen. Baroque Venice’s orphanages provided extensive musical training for the girls that ended up in them. Many stayed all their lives and became the most celebrated virtuosic musicians in Europe. The women performed behind lattice screens, inviting an …
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