Arcadia Players - New England's Period Instrument Ensemble
Arcadia Players embraces
historical performance practice to illuminate and invigorate the great Western heritage of vocal and instrumental music. |
ARCADIA PLAYERS welcomes our new director and our live audience!
Saturday April 2, 2022 7pm Wesley United Methodist Church, Hadley, MA Sounding Together: Origins of the Symphony Andrew Arceci, the new Artistic Director of Arcadia Players, will lead his inaugural in-person concert exploring the origins of the symphonic genre. The program will include Vivaldi’s Sinfonia-Al Santo Sepolcro, Handel’s “Sinfony" from Messiah, and early string symphonies by Johan Helmich Roman, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and others. Tickets are available at arcadiaplayers.org or at the door. To welcome all our friends back, and to thank you for your support, tickets will be "pay what you wish," with a suggested donation of $25 each. Your safety and that of our performers is of the utmost importance. Proof of full vaccination will be required at the door. Masks are required at all times. The approximately 1-hour program will be performed without intermission. You are invited to meet Andrew Arceci following the performance. This concert is supported by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council, the South Hadley Cultural Council, the Hadley Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. We look forward to seeing you again! Arcadia Players' 2019-2020 concert season is made possible through the support of you, our patrons and donors,
our hosts Mount Holyoke College, Wesley United Methodist Church, and Our Lady of the Valley Parish, our media sponsor New England Public Radio, WFCR and all-news WNNZ, and in 2019 by the Cultural Councils of Amherst, Easthampton, Hadley, and South Hadley, and local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Arcadia Players is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. |
