There are so many interesting and obscure holidays … did you know that May 16 is the annual celebration of “love a tree” day! Even better — would you believe that there’s a famous baroque era aria by George Frideric Handel that is a love song … to a tree? OMBRA MAI FU is from Handel’s opera XERXES, and it’s one of the highlights on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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In addition to the many familiar instruments in a band or orchestra, there are lots of other more obscure instruments, especially in baroque and early music groups. Take “viola d’amore” for example – maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi used the instrument in some of their music. If you’d like to hear how some of these unusual instruments sound, listen to Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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