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.
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,.
In his prime, Georg Reutter was “the single most influential musician in Vienna,” according to British musicologist, David Wyn Jones. He was also noted to be one of the most prolific composers of his time..
As submitted by Adam Pearl as a special supplement to his Harpsichord Recital. So I love whisky (or whiskey) cocktails. It started with the simple Manhattan: Bourbon or Rye, bitters, vermouth and a garnish –.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
