St. Cecilia was considered the patron saint of music and musicians, and her feast day is November 22nd. St. Cecilia day was a very special occasion in 17th century England – with festivals, church services, banquets, and concerts of odes composed especially for the occasion. You’ll hear a variety of music celebrating St. Cecilia on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Pianist Frederic Chiu’s mantra is: Music is not an escape from life, it is a doorway into life. He has crafted a unique, highly personalized and dynamic career as a performer, teacher, multi-disciplinary collaborator, and innovator. You can hear Frederic Chiu play two virtuosic transcriptions by Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Veteran’s Day is next week, when we honor those who have served in the armed forces. Sunday Baroque will mark the occasion with Heroic Marches by Georg Phillip Telemann, music by a military man who brought his viola da gamba onto the battlefield, and a BATTLE sonata. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
This Sunday is Halloween – the annual celebration of the spooky and scary, with a tradition of haunted houses and ghost stories. In ancient times, it was considered a time when the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped. You’ll hear some scary baroque favorites on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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United Nations Day is this Sunday, October 24th. It’s the annual celebration marking the founding of the UN in 1945. You’ll hear a multicultural collection of musical ideas including some Traditional Norman and Guernsey music, stirring Brazilian sacred music, and a virtuosic Venetian Concerto named for the Mughal Empire. Those are some of the highlights of Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana was an early 17th century Italian singer, organist, and composer. She went to a convent in Bologna in 1598, where she took music lessons from her aunt, who was the convent organist. Eventually she herself became a nun AND a composer. You’ll hear some of Donna Lucrezia Vizzana’s compositions on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The title character of Jean Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet PLATEE is an over-the-top, egotistical swamp beast. It’s the absurd mythological story of mischievous gods playing a mean joke on Platee. A suite from Rameau’s offbeat comic opera is a highlight of Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Florentine composer Giuseppe Valentini was a painter and poet, as well as an outstanding violinist and composer. We might know more about him if he hadn’t been overshadowed by other musicians such as Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. You’ll hear some of Giuseppe Valentini’s lovely music – a concerto featuring FOUR violins — on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
Lutenist Thomas Dunford is the son of two professional musicians who started performing professionally as a teenager. Jean Rondeau heard a harpsichord on the radio as a 6-year-old and told HIS parents he wanted to learn to make that sound, too. You’ll hear the two musicians collaborating on French Baroque music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Tine Thing Helseth is a Norwegian trumpet player, and the daughter of a trumpet-playing mom who took her along to rehearsals from the time she was only 6 weeks old. She has forged a unique path, playing with major orchestras all over the world as a soloist AND regularly playing at jazz clubs in Norway. You can hear Tine Thing Helseth play a baroque era trumpet concerto on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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