Director's welcome

I would like to offer you a very warm welcome to Arcadia Players' new sea­son! This year's series features several exciting concerts of large-scale orchestral and vocal works. We'll devote our season opener to Vivaldi, Bach, and works of Vivaldi that Bach arranged. Later in the season I will continue to explore the ties between the two, play­ing organ transcriptions by Bach of Vivaldi's violin concerti.

No Christmas is complete without Arcadia's Messiah. This year we look forward to two performances in the Pioneer Valley. In the spring we'll devote our final large-scale concert to Franz Josef Haydn, performing a symphony, a piano concerto and a Mass.

Arcadia welcomes our old friends, the vocal chamber ensemble Cantabile, for a fall concert, and our new friends of the Frederick Collection in Ashburnham, whose stunning array of early keyboard instruments will be played by some of our star performers. I commend our season to you and hope that you will join us for many of these great events.

Ian Watson, Artistic Director

Read the Summer 2007 Newsletter  (PDF format, 6 pages)