Other Early Music Concerts and Events in Southeast Michigan

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 7:30 PM
University Musical Society Presents
Apollo's Fire
Hill Auditorium


· Vivaldi/arr. Sorrell : "Allegro" from Concerto Grosso in D, after Concerto RV 511
· Oreste">Handel : "Agitato da fiere tempeste" from Oreste
· Il Parnasso in Festa">Handel : "Ho perso il caro ben" from Il Parnasso in Festa
· Vivaldi : Concerto in a minor for Two Violins, Op. 3, No. 8, RV 522
· Imeneo">Handel : "Se potessero i sospir miei" from Imeneo
· Ariodante">Handel : "Con l'ali di costanza" from Ariodante
· Handel : Prelude in A Major for solo harpsichord
· Handel : Chaconne from Terpsichore (Il pastor fido), HWV 8c
· Catone in Utica">Vivaldi : "Se mai senti spirarti sul volto" from Catone in Utica
· Vivaldi/arr. Sorrell : Concerto Grosso "La Follia" (Madness), after Sonata XII
· Vivaldi : "Vedro con mio diletto" from Giustino
· Vivaldi : "Fra le procelle" from Tito Manlio

Tickets available online at www.ums.org.

 

Sunday, November 13, 2011, 4:00 PM
Ann Arbor Grail Singers
Gasparini Mass for Five High Voices — Ann Arbor Premiere
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
306 N. Division St., Ann Arbor

The Grail Singers and guest soloist Lorna Young Hildebrandt will perform the Ann Arbor premiere of a Gasparini Mass in five parts for high voices. Debra Lonergan and Shin Hwang will accompany the choir on viola da gamba and chamber organ.

Gasparini composed the Mass for the women singers of the Pio Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where he was Maestro di Coro from 1701 to 1713 and employed Antonio Vivaldi.  Although not as well-known as his famous subordinate, Gasparini composed dozens of operas as well as sacred music.  He was thought to have studied under Corelli, and one of his students was Domenico Scarlatti.

Grail Singers’ director Carmen Cavallaro has prepared a new edition of this unusual piece, long out of print.  To ensure the accuracy of their performing edition, the Grail Singers commissioned photographs of the composer’s autograph score from its owner, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

The 16-voice women’s choir has performed in the Detroit Institute of Arts “Brunch with Bach” Series, at the Toledo Art Museum, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and at other venues in Michigan and Ohio. The Ann Arbor Grail Singers have been lauded for the beauty of their sound, and “their musicality, precision, balance, and intonation” (Current Magazine).

Open seating tickets, available at the door from 3:30, are $15 general admission, $12 seniors, $5 students (cash or check only, please). Concertgoers have permission to park in the Community High School parking lot, just a block away.  For more information, see www.AcademyofEarlyMusic.org (click on Community Calendar), or call 734-662-0631.

 

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