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Vivaldi’s Orphan Girls: Virtuosi della Pietà


  • Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church (map)

May 14th, 2021 – 5:00pm-6:00pm, 7:30pm-8:30pm
Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro (VT)

May 15th, 2021 – 7:30pm
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge

May 16th, 2021 – 3:30pm
Follen Community Church, Lexington

Streaming FREE beginning May 22nd at 7:30pm. Chat with Sarasa musicians as they answer your questions and offer unique insights into the music as it is performed. Don't miss it!

All Vivaldi Program:
Sinfonia in G-major, RV 146 for strings and basso continuo
Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major RV 383a, Op. 4 “La Stravaganza” for violin solo, strings, and basso continuo
Zefiretti che sussurrate, RV 749.31 for soprano, strings and harpsichord
Concerto No. 12 in E Minor, RV 409 for violoncello solo, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo
Ascende laeta, RV 635 for soprano, strings, and basso continuo
Sonata for 2 violins and basso continuo in F major, RV 68
In turbato mare irato, motet for soprano, strings, and basso continuo in G major, RV 627

Celebrating the young orphan girls under Antonio Vivaldi’s tutelage, whose virtuosic talent and charisma created a musical mecca in 18th-century Venice. 

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