Please join us for a wonderful evening of music by Scarlatti, Handel and Corelli.
Internationally renowned opera star Kirsten Blaise joins Voices of Music for a program of Scarlatti, Handel & Corelli, featuring Scarlatti’s extraordinary setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah performed on original instruments.
The Lamentations of Jeremiah have held a special place for renaissance and baroque composers since Petrucci’s magnificent collection of 1506, which was one of the first music books published in Europe. In the Latin text, each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: Aleph, Beth, Gimel,Daleth, He, and composers since Petrucci have “illuminated” each letter with impressionistic melismas that echo the decorative arts of the medieval scribes. Two hundred years after Petrucci, Scarlatti continued this tradition in his extraordinary setting of 1708, a commission for the same group of Cavalieri that sponsored Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater. For this concert we will use a new edition, based on Scarlatti’s original manuscript.
Kirsten Blaise, soprano
Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Maxine Nemerovski & Gabrielle Wunsch, baroque violins
Lisa Grodin, baroque viola
Shirley Hunt, baroque cello
Farley Pearce, violone
David Tayler, archlute
Hanneke van Proosdij, organ
Thursday, April 10, 2014 8 pm
All Saints Episcopal church, 555 Waverly Street, Palo Alto
Friday, April 11, 2014 8 pm
St Stephen's Episcopal Church, 3 Bayview Avenue, Belvedere
Saturday, April 12, 2014 8 pm
St Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street (at Franklin), San Francisco
Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:30 pm
Saint Mary Magdalen Church, 2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley.
Berkeley patrons please note that we have access to the lower parking lot;entrance is a ramp that goes down to the school.
Tickets
Adult:$40 Senior/student:$35 SFEMS/EMA/ARS member: $35. Student Rush: Subject to availability – $5 tickets are sold starting 45 minutes prior to each concert. Please show valid Student ID
for more information: 415-260-4687
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