Baroque Music at August 15 Tea Time Recital at Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord

Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord invites you to the final Tuesday Tea-Time Recital featuring Concord resident Harriet Bridges on Tuesday, August 15 at 4 PM in Trinity’s spacious and air-conditioned parish hall at 81 Elm Street in Concord (please enter by the River Street doors). Ms. Bridges’ program includes songs by Monteverdi, opera arias by Handel, Telemann and Gluck, and selections from London’s vibrant 18th-century theatre scene by Arne. This recital will last about 35 minutes and is free to the public; donations to support Trinity’s music program are welcome. Light refreshments and conversation with the performers follow the recital. Trinity Episcopal Church is fully handicap-accessible. For further information, please call 978-369-3715.

Soprano Harriet Bridges is a versatile singer, known for her expertise in early music from Medieval chant to Baroque cantatas. She deeply cherishes sacred music that seeks to inspire the divine not only in western music but also in other genres, including devotional bhajans of the Karnatak tradition. In this vein she has been honored to perform for the spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi and thousands of her devotées since 2013.

In the greater Boston area, Harriet Bridges sings with the choral ensembles of Night Song and the Seraphim Singers. In theater, she sang the vocal lead for the 2010 Boston Christmas Revels (“Bridges sings like
an angel;” Boston Herald) and performed in a multimedia concert of troubadour music with the Medieval ensemble Bernardus at the Boston Early Music Festival fringe. She was a featured soloist in Ars et Amici’s recent tour of the Lake Como region in Italy as well as earlier tours in Venice and Croatia.

Joining Ms. Bridges for this delightful summer program are Sheila Beardslee, recorder, artistic director of Ars et Amici and Concordia Consort, and organist Robert Barney, music director at Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord.