Poet Robert Burns wrote, “O, my love’s like a red, red rose/ That’s newly sprung in June…” June is National Rose Month. It’s a celebration of the fragrant symbol of love and friendship, passion and desire, beauty and elegance. You’ll hear music inspired by roses on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Poppies are symbols of eternal life, death, sleep and beauty, in the poem “In Flanders Fields” describes the poppies that sprang up on the World War I Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. Poppies have become a symbol of Memorial Day, and you’ll hear a musical depiction of the flower on Sunday Baroque this Memorial Day weekend.
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Sailors in Venice normally gather every year at this time for a ceremony called the Wedding of Venice to the Sea. They offer prayers of thanksgiving to Saint Nicholas, their patron saint, and hold a symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic, tossing a gold wedding ring into the water and repeating a Latin wedding vow. The King’s Consort recreated the ceremony in music – as it would have been celebrated in 1600 – and you’ll hear some of it on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Mother’s Day has been an official US holiday for more than a century. Sunday Baroque will feature music by 17th and 18th century composers who were THEMSELVES mothers, including Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Princess Anna Amalia, and Francesca Caccini. You’ll hear musical moms on Sunday Baroque this Mother’s Day weekend.
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Although there’s a handful of composers who whose names have been more enduring over the centuries, there were countless others who were less well-known yet highly accomplished and talented musicians. You’ll hear a few of them this weekend on Sunday Baroque, including a French woman who was a virtuosa organist, harpsichordist, and composer. It’s on Sunday Baroque.
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If you were in England in the 16th century, you would be celebrating MAY DAY on May first. Spring Festivals were often raucous celebrations with dancing & singing, bonfires & maypoles, and a strong punch called MAY CUP. You’ll hear lively May Day music from John Playford’s English Dancing Master on Sunday Baroque this week.
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The first Earth Day took place on April 22 in 1970 – it was billed as a “national teach-in on the environment.” A year later, President Nixon celebrated Earth Day’s first anniversary with a proclamation establishing Earth Week. Sunday Baroque is celebrating our planet with music inspired by nature, including charming brass dances through the pretty woods, a rustic concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and a Concerto whose soloists are a cuckoo and a nightingale. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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In the 18th century, the Concert Spirituel was a French musical society that sponsored a concert series in Paris. In 1988, a new Concert Spirituel was formed to play music from the earlier group’s era. You’ll hear them in a Serenade by a versatile and business-minded French baroque composer on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Easter is a time of spiritual reflection, hopefulness and reconciliation. Sunday Baroque is celebrating with a variety of glorious music illustrating the broadly uplifting and optimistic spirit of this season, including a Sinfonia from one of Bach’s Cantatas, and a page from the Spring Journal by German Baroque musician Johann Fischer. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Did you know that April is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH? The Academy of American Poets started the annual celebration to highlight the art form and its place in our culture. You’ll hear poetic music by a variety of composers who were inspired by poetry, and often were themselves poets. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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