PRO MUSICA RARA PRESENTS ‘MUSICAL LOVE LETTERS’

Pro Musica Rara, artists-in-Residence at Towson University Center for the Arts, presents a program of music and letters from the eighteenth century performed on period instruments. Towson University President Maravene Loeschke, narrator, joins Towson faculty member Eva Mengelkoch, fortepiano, Baltimore Symphony violinist Madeline Adkins, violin and artistic director Allen Whear, cello, play music associated with four of the famous, sometimes ill-fated, romances of the era: Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, Ludwig van Beethoven and Antonie Brentano, Benjamin Franklin and Madame Brillon de Jouy, and Joesef Haydn and Rebecca Schroeter. With music by Haydn, Cosway, Schroeter and Beethoven and readings from the passionate correspondence of the time.