Local Baroque concert, anyone?
Hey, Philadelphian readers — anyone else going to hear Tempesta di
Mare‘s concert this weekend? (Here’s the notice about it that caught my attention.) Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I’m planning on going to the Saturday night concert at St. Mark’s. C’mon, it’s free!
And speaking of
music in churches, perhaps this is the result of my having read too
much Dorothy L. Sayers at a formative age, but doesn’t this look like
the most fun ever? Except, thanks to my class schedule, I’d probably
never be able to make it to practice. Another in the ever-lengthening list of reasons why I’d really like to find a job in the area after I finish my MLS.
Update, afterwards: It was a terrific concert. Johann Friedrich Fasch isn’t exactly a household name, and the pieces they played (two concerti plus an alternate andante movement for the first one, and an Ouverture Grosso) hadn’t been performed for over 200 years; some had been reconstructed from damaged manuscripts found in the Dresden state library. If I were more of a musicologist, I’d be able to comment on how Fasch sounds not quite like his contemporaries and how surprising some parts of the concert were. But I’ll settle for saying that I really liked Tempesta di Mare and their decision to bring these compositions to light. So much so that I’m now kicking myself for missing their earlier Philadelphia concerts this season, and eagerly looking forward to their next (High Baroque cantatas in Hebrew!). There may be season tickets in my future next year, depending on what their calendar looks like.
Y’know. I might just be able to swing a babysitter. I’ll keep you posted, because that looks TOO DELICIOUS!!!
Not gonna happen. Boo.
The concert sounds fab. Let us know how it is.
Sorry you couldn’t make it! I think you’d have really liked it. And I bet you’d be able to comment on it much more informedly than I can.