Ah, Venice. The Rialto, the Grand Canal, the Cathedral of San Marco, the piazzas, mists, stones, beaches, veils of golden light, “La Serenissima.” The city holds a special place in the imagination. In Death in.
2008-2023 | 15-year Anniversary It’s a relationship that’s just getting better, and 2023 is its Crystal Anniversary. Fifteen seasons ago, fresh in love with the music of German high baroque master Johann Friedrich Fasch, Tempesta.
Tempesta di Mare presents Anonymous. For something that’s nothing, “anonymous” sure carries a lot of baggage. Literally “without a name,” “anonymous” would seem to be value-neutral. It gets into some shady business, though. “Anonymous tip,”.
Excerpt from Anne Schuster Hunter’s blogpost from May 2021 “No hope, nor help there doth remain, but down, down, down I fall” “Sorrow stay”: lyric by anonymous, music by John Dowland (1562 – 1626), John Dowland. Renowned.
“When people play together, they start to speak a common language” Gwyn Roberts Covid-necessities blow up the sound It was a sound she wasn’t expecting and it surprised her. Ulrike Shapiro, Tempesta di Mare’s Executive.
“Hearing a piece of music that hasn’t spoken in 300 years is really exciting” Gwyn Roberts Those Magic Moments Some of the best times in Tempesta’s 20 years of history were those magic moments when.
Why the money title? We puzzled for a while over why Rittler’s 1000-Guilder Sonata, the second work on this program, has such an enigmatic title. Was it composed for a 1000-guilder commission? Is there a melody called “1000 Guilders”.
Tempesta’s upcoming program Women of Antiquity includes three arias by Georg Reutter, that call for a special instrument, the “salterio”, a hammered dulcimer whose name comes from the same root as “psaltry” in English. What.
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.
“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.
