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Tonight, we are thrilled to welcome the virtuoso instrumentalists of Chiaroscuro Quartet in their eagerly anticipated BEMF début. Praised for their innovative approach to Classical chamber music performed on gut strings with historical bows, the quartet’s unique sound has been described in the Observer as “a shock to the ears of the best kind.” Their program, “Shades of Minor,” focuses on string quartets by Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn from a seventeen-year period in the early 1800s, all composed in minor keys and displaying deeply contrasting elements, characters, and affects.
We hope you will join us in April for the final two concerts of our 2022–2023 Season. The Austrian-based Ensemble Castor makes their BEMF début on Saturday, April 22, at First Church in Cambridge, with an all-Vivaldi program featuring radiant mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel and esteemed violin virtuoso Rodolfo Richter. Our Season is brought to a satisfying close six days later on Friday, April 28, at St. Paul Church in Cambridge, with the luminous voices of Britain’s Stile Antico in a program titled “England’s Nightingale,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd.
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Alina Ibragimova, violin Pablo Hernán Benedí, violin Emilie Hörnlund, viola Claire Thirion, violoncello
in C minor, D. 703
assai
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
Allegro con brio (1770–1827)
Allegretto ma non troppo
Allegro assai vivace ma serioso — Più allegro Larghetto espressivo — Allegretto agitato — Allegro
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Mendelssohn
Adagio — Allegro vivace (1809–1847)
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Intermezzo
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Born January 31, 1797, Vienna
Died November 19, 1828, Vienna
Schubert composed the Quartettsatz—that title, which did not originate with Schubert, means simply “quartet movement”—in December 1820, when he was just a few weeks short of his twenty-fourth birthday. He had apparently planned to write a standard four-movement quartet, but completed only the first movement and a 41-measure fragment of what would have been an Andante second movement. No one knows why he set so promising a work aside and left it unfinished, but—like the “Unfinished” Symphony—what survives is significant enough by itself to stand as a satisfying whole.
Curiously, the Allegro assai opening movement of this quartet is similar to the first movement of the “Unfinished” Symphony: both feature the same sort of double-stroked opening idea in the first violins, both are built on unusually lyric ideas, and both offer unexpected key relations between the major theme-groups. In fact, the key relationships are one of the most remarkable aspects of the quartet: it begins in C minor with the first violin’s racing, nervous theme, and this
quickly gives way to the lyric second idea in A-flat major, which Schubert marks dolce. The quiet third theme—a rocking, flowing melody—arrives in G major. As one expects in Schubert’s mature music (and the 23-yearold who wrote this music was a mature composer), keys change with consummate ease, though one surprise is that the opening idea does not reappear until the coda, where it returns in the closing instants to hurl the movement to its fierce conclusion.
Listed as the twelfth of Schubert’s fifteen string quartets, the Quartettsatz is generally acknowledged as the first of his mature quartets. The first eleven had been written as Hausmusik for a quartet made up of members of Schubert’s own family: his brothers played the violins, his father the violoncello, and the composer the viola. Because he was writing for amateur musicians in those quartets, Schubert had kept the demands on the players relatively light—his cellist-father in particular was given a fairly easy part in those quartets. But in the Quartettsatz and the three magnificent final quartets Schubert felt no such restrictions. The Quartettsatz, which makes enormous technical demands (including virtuoso runs for the first violin that whip upward over a span of three octaves), was clearly intended for professional performers.
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Born December 16, 1770, Bonn
Died March 26, 1827, Vienna
Beethoven’s manuscript for the Quartet in F minor is dated October 1810, but almost certainly he continued to work on this quartet for some years after that, and it was not published until 1816. This quartet has a nickname, “Quartetto Serioso,” that— unusually for a musical nickname—came from the composer himself. Well aware of the music’s extraordinary character, Beethoven described the quartet as having been “written for a small circle of connoisseurs and…never to be performed in public.” Joseph Kerman has described it as “an involved, impassioned, highly idiosyncratic piece, problematic in every one of its movements, advanced in a hundred ways” and “unmatched in Beethoven’s output for compression, exaggerated articulation, and a corresponding sense of extreme tension.” Yet this same quartet—virtually the shortest of Beethoven’s string quartets—comes from the same period as the easily accessible “Archduke” Trio, the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, and the incidental music to Goethe’s Egmont, and this music’s extraordinary focus and tension seem sharply at odds with those scores. In fact, this quartet in many ways prefigures Beethoven’s late style and the great cycle of quartets written during his final years.
The first movement is extraordinarily compressed (it lasts barely four minutes), and it catapults listeners through an unexpected series of key relationships. The unison opening figure is almost spit out, passing through and ending in a “wrong” key and then followed
by complete silence. Octave leaps and furious restatements of the opening figure lead to the swaying second subject, announced in flowing triplets by the viola. The development section of this (highly modified) sonata-form movement is quite short, treating only the opening theme, before the movement exhausts itself on fragments of that theme.
The marking of the second movement, Allegretto ma non troppo, might seem to suggest some relief, but this movement is even more closely argued than the first. The violoncello’s strange descending line introduces a lovely opening melody, but this quickly gives way to a long and complex fugue, its sinuous subject announced by the viola and then taken up and developed by the other voices. A quiet close (derived from the violoncello’s introduction) links this movement to the third, a violent fast movement marked Allegro assai vivace ma serioso. The movement is in ABABA form, the explosive opening section alternating with a chorale-like subject for the lower three voices which the first violin decorates. Once again, Beethoven takes each section into unexpected keys. The last movement has a slow introduction—Larghetto espressivo full of the darkness that has marked the first three movements, and this leads to a blistering finale that does much to dispel the tension. In an oft-quoted remark about the arrival of this theme, American composer Randall Thompson is reported to have said: “No bottle of champagne was ever uncorked at a better moment.” In contrast, for example, to the nearcontemporary Seventh Symphony, which ends in wild celebration, this quartet has an almost consciously anti-heroic close, concluding with a very fast coda that Beethoven marks simply Allegro.
Some have felt that the Quartet in F minor is composed with the same technique as the late quartets but without their sense of spiritual elevation, and in this sense they see the present quartet as looking ahead toward Beethoven’s late style. But it is unfair to this music to regard it simply as a forerunner of another style. This quartet may well be dark, explosive, and extremely concentrated. But it should be valued for just those qualities.
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn
Born February 3, 1809, Hamburg
Died November 4, 1847, Leipzig
Mendelssohn turned 18 early in 1827, a year that was important for many reasons. Already the composer of two masterpieces—the Octet (1825) and the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1826)—Mendelssohn spent the summer on a walking tour of the Harz Mountains in central Germany and in the fall entered the University of Berlin, where he attended Hegel’s lectures. One other event from 1827 had a profound effect on the young composer: Beethoven died on March 26.
Mendelssohn never met Beethoven—he had grown up in northern German cities, far from Vienna where Beethoven lived the final thirtyfive years of his life. But the young composer regarded Beethoven as a god. In the fall of 1827, only months after Beethoven’s death, Mendelssohn wrote his String Quartet in A minor. This quartet seems obsessed by the Beethoven quartets, both in theme-shape and musical gesture, and countless listeners have wondered about the significance of these many references.
The Quartet in A minor opens with a slow introduction. This Adagio, which evokes memories of Beethoven’s Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, also quotes one of Mendelssohn’s own early love-songs, “Ist es wahr?”, and
that song’s principal three-note phrase figures importantly in the first movement. The music leaps ahead at the Allegro vivace, and Mendelssohn’s instructions to the players indicate the spirit of this music: agitato and con fuoco. The second movement also begins with a slow introduction, an Adagio that has reminded some of the Cavatina movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130; the main body of the movement is fugal, based on a subject that appears to be derived from Beethoven’s String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, played earlier in this program.
The charming Intermezzo is the one “nonBeethoven” movement in the quartet. In ABA form, it opens with a lovely violin melody over pizzicato accompaniment from the other voices; the center section (Allegro di molto) is one of Mendelssohn’s fleet scherzos, and he combines the movement’s principal themes as he brings it to a graceful close. The sonataform finale opens with a stormy recitative for first violin that was clearly inspired by the recitative that prefaces the finale of Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127. Not only does Mendelssohn evoke the memory of several Beethoven quartets in this finale, but at the very end he brings back quotations from this quartet’s earlier movements: the fugue subject from the second movement is heard briefly, and the quartet ends with the heartfelt music that opened the first movement.
What are we to make of the many references to Beethoven’s late quartets in this quartet by the teenaged Mendelssohn? Are they slavish imitation? The effort of a young man to take on the manner of an older master? An act of homage? There may be no satisfactory answers to these questions, but Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A minor the work of an extremely talented young man still finding his way as a composer—is accomplished music in its own right: graceful, skillfully made, and finally very pleasing. n
—Eric Bromberger
Formed in 2005, Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises violinists Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán Benedí (Spain), the Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund, and violoncellist Claire Thirion from France. Dubbed “a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber music” in Gramophone, this international ensemble performs music of the Classical and early Romantic periods on gut strings and with historical bows. The quartet’s unique sound—described in the Observer as “a shock to the ears of the best kind”—is highly acclaimed by audiences and critics all over Europe.
Recent releases in their growing discography includes Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, Haydn’s Opus 76, Beethoven’s Opus 18, and Mozart’s “Prussian” quartets.
Chiaroscuro Quartet was a prize-winner of the German Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk/ Musikfest Bremen in 2013 and received Germany’s most prestigious CD award, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2015 for their recording of Mozart’s Quartet in D minor, K. 421, and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Opus 13. Among the ensemble’s chamber music partners are renowned artists such as Kristian Bezuidenhout, Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan
Cohen, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Chen Halevi, Malcolm Bilson, Christian Poltera, Cédric Tiberghien, and Christophe Coin.
Recent engagements included their enthusiastically received début concerts at Vienna Konzerthaus and Philharmonie Warsaw, their début at Carnegie Hall as part of their first U.S. tour, and a return visit to Japan. Other highlights have taken the ensemble to the Edinburgh International Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall and King’s Place, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, The Sage Gateshead, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, Théâtre du Jeu-de-Paume in Aixen-Provence, Grand Théâtre de Dijon, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Boulez Saal, and Beethoven Haus Bonn.
In the 2022–2023 season they continue their residency at Turner Sims Concert Hall, make return visits to London’s Wigmore Hall and Berlin’s Boulez Saal, as well as a return tour of North America including Jordan Hall in Boston, Princeton, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Montreal’s Bourgie Hall.
Chiaroscuro Quartet are grateful to Jumpstart Jr Foundation for the kind loan of the 1570 Andrea Amati violin. n
Performing music from Baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova has established a reputation as one of the most accomplished and intriguing violinists of her generation.
As soloist, Alina appears with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Boston Symphony, Montréal Symphony, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and has performed at chamber music at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Vienna, Carnegie Hall New York, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, and at festivals including Salzburg, Verbier, and Aldeburgh.
Born in Russia in 1985, Alina studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music with teachers including Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolić, Christian Tetzlaff, and Adrian Butterfield. She was also a member of the Kronberg Academy Master’s program. n
Pablo Hernán Benedí was born in Madrid and began studying at the Padre Antonio Soler Conservatory of San Lorenzo de El Escorial with Polina Kotliarskaya. In 2009 he moved to London to continue his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and András Keller and was supported by scholarships from the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Juventudes Musicales, and La Caixa. Since the age of 14, Pablo had regular contact with Gordan Nikolić who helped shape and nurture his development.
Pablo is also a founding member of Trio Isimsiz. Current winners of the Borletti Buitoni Award Fellowship, the trio has also won 1st prize and the audience prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and 2nd prize at the Haydn Vienna Competition.
As a soloist Pablo has performed with the Philharmonia, London Chamber Players, and Concerto Budapest amongst others. He is the concertmaster of Balthasar Neumann Orchestra and also has played regularly as leader or section leader with Arcangelo, Concerto Budapest, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Swedish Radio Orchestra. n
Emilie Hörnlund was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Formerly a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Emilie has held the position of Principal Viola at the Swedish Royal Opera since 2010. Emilie works with many other leading orchestras in the UK and Sweden, including BBC Philharmonic, London Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Kungliga Filharmonikerna Stockholm. In 2006, Emilie became the first viola player to reach the final of the Ljunggrenska Tävlingen (Swedish Soloist Competition) in Sweden.
Emilie studied at the Falun Music Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music, and the Royal College of Music with teachers including Timothy Boulton, Jack Glickman, David Takeno, and Andriy Viytovych. She also studied Baroque viola with Annette Isserlis. n
Born in France, Claire Thirion studied at the conservatoires (CNR) in Marseille and Boulogne-Billancourt, then at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), before entering the Royal College of Music in London to study with Jérôme Pernoo and Catherine Rimer (Baroque violoncello). In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal.
Since completing her studies, Claire has been in great demand for the performance of both modern compositions and Baroque works. In 2008–2010 she held the position of principal continuo player with Emmanuelle Haïm’s ensemble, Le Concert d’Astrée.
As an active chamber musician, she is a member of the Ensemble Fragonard, which also performs on period instruments. Since 2006, she has been part of a duo with pianist Karine Sélo, and regularly performs in festivals throughout Europe.
She is frequently invited as a guest leader for projects on period instruments with various ensembles. n
The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London). Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).
One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin.
The twenty-first biennial Boston Early Music Festival in June 2021 took place virtually, and featured a video presentation of André Campra’s extraordinary Le Carnaval de Venise from the June 2017 Festival. The twenty-second Festival, in June 2023, will have as its centerpiece Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by LouiseGeneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which will feature the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan.
BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in
November 2008, with a performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, and most recently joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011.
BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its
groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, fourcountry European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason
d’Or de l’Année and a 2015 Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a sixcity North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020.
Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, which always include the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and which often feature unique, oncein-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for the Festival week’s events. In 1989, BEMF
established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest earlymusic scene” (New York Times).
The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues. In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition, in their first-ever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n
Revenue from ticket sales, even from a sold-out performance, accounts for less than half of the total cost of producing BEMF’s operas and concerts; the remainder is derived almost entirely from generous friends like you. With your help, we will be able to build upon the triumphs of the past, and continue to bring you thrilling performances by today’s finest Early Music artists.
Our membership organization, the FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, includes donors from around the world. These individuals recognize the Festival’s need for further financial support in order to fulfill its aim of serving as a showcase for the finest talent in the field.
PLEASE JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL BY DONATING AT ONE OF SEVERAL LEVELS:
• Friend $45
• Partner $100
• Associate $250
• Patron $500
• Guarantor $1,000
• Benefactor $2,500
• Leadership Circle $5,000
• Artistic Director’s Circle $10,000
• Festival Angel $25,000
THREE WAYS TO GIVE:
• Visit BEMF.org and click on “Give Now”.
• Call BEMF at 617-661-1812 to donate by telephone using your credit card
• Mail your credit card information or a check (payable to BEMF) to Boston Early Music Festival, 43 Thorndike Street, Suite 302, Cambridge, MA 02141-1764
OTHER WAYS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:
• Increase your philanthropic impact with a Matching Gift from your employer.
• Make a gift of appreciated stocks or bonds to BEMF.
• Planned Giving allows you to support BEMF in perpetuity while achieving your financial goals.
• Direct your gift to a particular area that interests you with a Named Gift.
QUESTIONS? Please e-mail Kathleen Fay at kathy@bemf.org, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. Thank you for your support!
This list reflects donations received from July 1, 2021 to March 9, 2023
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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Biogen
Carrier Global
Dell, Inc.
Exelon Foundation
FleetBoston Financial Corporation
Genentech, Inc.
Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. LLC
John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.
Community Gifts Through Harvard University
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
IBM Corporation
Intel Foundation
Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG)
Microsoft Corporation
MLE Foundation, Inc.
Natixis Global Asset Management
Novartis US Foundation
NVIDIA
Pfizer
Pitney Bowes
Salesforce.org
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Takeda
Tetra Tech
United Technologies Corporation
Verizon Foundation
Xerox Foundation
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023
8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
MIREILLE LEBEL, mezzo-soprano
VIVALDI: FORCES OF NATURE—LOVE OF NATURE
AMHERST EARLY MUSIC Workshops n Festival n Classes n Concerts n Music Publications
Spring Break Workshop
April 22-23, 2023, Arlington, VA
Memorial Day Weekend Workshop
May 26-29, 2023, Litchfield, CT
AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 2-9 and 9-16, 2023
Two weeks of classes on the campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA
Baroque Opera, Choral Workshop, Ensemble Singing Intensive, and more!
AEM ONLINE New classes each month!
Publications AEM publishes four playerfriendly, modern editions:
Ottaviano Pettruci's Odhecaton, Canti B, Music for the Duke of Lerma, and Music from the Regensburg Partbooks 1579
See website for the latest details on all of AEM's programs!
We hope you'll join us!
amherstearlymusic.org
After the divine sorceress Circé welcomes Ulisse and his weary companions to her island home, the forces of love, magic, and fate clash and threaten to ensnare them all.
n JUNE 4, 7, 9 & 11, 2023 | Boston, MA
n JUNE 10, 2023 | Boston, MA
n JUNE 23 & 24, 2023 | The Berkshires, MA
A weeklong celebration of Early Music with Opera, Concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and so much more.
