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. |
Vermeer's "The Concert"
March 7-8, 2025 in the Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley Two performances: Friday March 7 @ 7:30pm; Saturday March 8 at 3 pm In cooperation with the Mount Holyoke College Music Department Sophie Michaux – voice Douglas Kelley – viola da gamba Nathaniel Cox – lute and cittern Andrus Madsen – harpsichord In 1664 Johannes Vermeer painted a domestic music scene in which a singer is joined by a harpsichordist and a lutenist, with a viola da gamba on the floor and a bandora or a cittern on the table. (The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has never been recovered.) This concert will be a reproduction of the music these musicians might have played, sampling from works widely available in Rotterdam in the 1650s, including then-popular Roman cantatas written for the instruments and voice depicted in the painting. This program will be performed twice in the Warbeke Room at Mount Holyoke College, an ideal space for this intimate repertoire. . |