|
2010 - 2011 Series Midtown Concerts:
September 2010 | October 2010 | November 2010
| December 2010 | January 2011
February 2011
| March 2011 | April 2011
| May 2011
April 2011 APRIL 6
Asteria: Medieval Love Songs from the Court of Charles the Bold
The voice/lute duo performs a selection of seldom-heard chansons,
showcasing the work of Antoine Busnoys and Robert Morton, two of the most valued composers in the ducal court of Charles the Bold at the end of the 15th century, in a program featuring some of
their finest and most intricately beautiful work.
APRIL 13
Charites: 17th-Century Female Perspectives on the Dissolution of Beauty
The ensemble presents a musical
vanitas, staged with period gesture, investigating the transient nature of youth and beauty in virtuosic music and poetry by seventeenth-century women composers and writers.
APRIL 20
ARTEK: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
Lauren Alfano, soprano, and Juli Borst, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by instrumental ensemble directed by Gwendolyn Toth, are featured in Pergolesi's
profound and most beloved work.
APRIL 27
Ensemble Calandra: French Cantatas of the 1720s
Pairing the music of Boismortier and Monteclair, this program marries two
cantatas published within four years of each other, in a study of similarity and difference in music, person, geography and time.
|
|
