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This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans from the early Spanish Cancioneros (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico. Included are dances such as joropo from Venezuela and Colombia and fandanguito from Mexico. Performers will switch from the European viola da gamba and Renaissance guitar to the Venezuelan cuatro and harp, illustrating the similar yet distinctively different sonorities and rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two continents, underlining Africa’s influence on them. The program will also include an aria by Jose de Nebra praising the Fandango for relieving fears.
Music by Cascante, Coll, Encina, Murcia, Soler and others.
This program presents music by Italian 18th century women composers working at the courts of Frederick the Great in Prussia and the House of Habsburg in Austria These powerful monarchies sponsored both salon and stage, where passions ran high and the best musicians were hired.
The harpsichord concerto in G minor by Frederick the Great’s sister Wilhelmine of Prussia and the Divertimento and soprano aria Astra coeli by Anna Bon are pitted in our concert against the Habsburg-sponsored Camilla de Rossi, with excerpts from her oratorio Santa Beatrice d’Este, and Maria Teresa Agnesi’s harpsichord concerto and excerpts from her opera Ulisse in Campania. We conclude with an aria by Maria Antonia Walpurgis from her opera Il trionfo della fedeltà .
