Dancing With Those Who Brought You: Happy 20th anniversary, Tempesta!
Tempesta di Mare turns 20 this year! It’s a big one! Hip hip hooray! And with thanks to Henry Purcell and his Ode for Queen Mary’s Birthday in 1694: “Come, ye Sons of Art, come.
Author: Anne Schuster Hunter
“English Orpheus”: Opening up to love
“Music! That all-persuading art, Which soothes our griefs, inspires our joys, Soft love creates, stern rage destroys, And moulds at will each stubborn heart.” Overture text, by Newburgh Hamilton, to G. F. Handel’s opera Rinaldo.
Chance Encounter
How Tempesta di Mare discovered Georg Reutter It was, almost literally, a magic moment. One fine evening in June 2017, on a two-block walk through Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Richard Stone, Tempesta di Mare’s artistic co-director,.
1721: Time to Unwind—
1721. The title of Tempesta di Mare’s program might have you scratching your head. You might be wondering whether you forgot something special about 1721. It’s not usually a marquee date, after all. It’s not.
Musicians on the move
Expats & Immigrants— After 10 months of Covid restrictions, sometimes the walls seem to close in pretty tight. I’m sure many of us daydream about upping stakes and bolting. Lucky for us, Tempesta di Mare’s.
Featured Musician: Eve Miller
First published in March 2007 A life on the road finally caught up to Eve Miller, as it has so many musicians. It happened on a rainy Monday afternoon at a rest stop off I-5.
To the four winds
“This work, I hope, will make me famous,” G. P. Telemann wrote, in a candid moment, to a friend about music he’d just finished and was sending to the publisher, his Musique de Table (Table.
Taking Stock: the Mississippi Bubble
It’s a risky business, the stock market. Baroque Europe learned that when financial crises raged across the continent in the early 1700s. One of the worst, the Mississippi Bubble, took place in 1720. It caused.
Off the Beaten Path: Tempesta di Mare’s A Czech Christmas
It was May 2018, early summer in the town of Kroměříž… Kroměříž is about 250 miles east of Prague and so postcard pretty that it’s been called the most beautiful historical city in the Czech.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery…and Flowers: Handel, Telemann and a Lifelong Relationship
It’s a sweet story. Two men—famous composers—keep their long-distance friendship alive for a half-century sharing mutual regard and …flowers. Georg Philipp Telemann and Georg Frederick Handel were German teenagers when they met. Life separated them.