Newsletter
June 2012

Table of contents

• Preview: Tempesta’s 2012–2013 Season
• Coupon: save on subscriptions by June 30 — $20 discount, limited-time!


• the BBC: a program about Tempesta on BBC Radio 3


• High Notes: Accolades are in for our “Opus 10” Festival
• Another High Note: just $1,500 left to our June 30 $10,000 goal
• Cruising Altitude: Tempesta featured in US Airways Magazine

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PREVIEW

Tempesta’s 2012–2013 Season

including Handel’s Messiah and concerts at the Barnes and Woodmere

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Tempesta di Mare’s 2012–2013 season brings not just more music than before, but also more ways and more places to enjoy it too, with blockbusters that include our first performance of Handel’s Messiah and other favorites alongside more of the best baroque music you’ve never heard. We also launch a new Artist Recital Series at the Barnes and Woodmere.

Our 5-program mainstage series of orchestral and chamber music opens its second decade with Bach’s joyous Brandenburg Concerto IV, and later in the season more Bach with our signature renditions of his six organ sonatas, reimagined for chamber ensemble. Programs of seventeenth-century German vocal and instrumental chamber music, orchestral music inspired by great literature, and our first Messiah, with Choral Arts Philadelphia and four brilliant soloists, round out our main season.

Harpsichordist Adam Pearl, recorder player Gwyn Roberts and violinist Emlyn Ngai take center stage for their own solo programs in the opening season of our new Artist Recital Series. Hear these Tempesta principals at two of the world’s great private art collections: the new Barnes on the Parkway and Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum.

Join us for all or just some of these events. Our eight- five- and three-concert options in Center City and Chestnut Hill are on sale now and offer the flexibility to tailor a package that’s right for you, with guaranteed preferred seating and complete ticket exchange privileges. Be sure to take advantage of the $20 discount on Season Passes, available through June 30. (Details below.)

Single tickets go on sale after Labor Day.
 

2012–2013 Orchestral and Chamber Series

• Our 2012–2013 mainstage season kicks off on October 20 and 21 with Brandenburg 4 & Friends, an orchestral program that includes Bach’s iconic fourth Brandenburg Concerto, Handel’s Terpsichore Suite and Rebel’s Characters of the Dance, plus audience favorites by Vivaldi, Weiss and Fasch.
   
• On December 8 and 9 vocalists Laurie Heimes, Jennifer Lane, Aaron Sheehan and David Newman join the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players for Art of the Prophets, glorious German vocal and instrumental music from the generation before J.S. Bach. The program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
   
• The Chamber Players return on February 2 and 3 for Bach Trio Sonatas, his six organ sonatas re-imagined for chamber ensemble, music that is at once rich, deep, wicked, jaunty, impish, profound, hard-rocking and so much more. We will record this as our 2013 Chandos release. This project is supported by the E. Nakamichi Foundation.
   
• On March 17 Tempesta di Mare gives its first performance of Handel’s triumphant masterpiece, Messiah, together with Choral Arts Philadelphia and soloists Ah Hong, Jennifer Lane, Aaron Sheehan and William Sharp. The one performance will take place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium. This project is supported by the Presser Foundation.
   
• The season concludes on May 11 & 12 with Great Books, an orchestral journey through some of the classics in literature, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Molière’s The Hypochondriac and Ovid’s Pygmalion, in orchestral renditions by Telemann, Purcell, Charpentier and Rameau.

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New Artist Recital Series

2012–2013 marks the first season of a new three-program Artist Recital Series, each featuring a Tempesta artist performing twice, once at the new Barnes on the Parkway as part of our Center City series, and once at Woodmere Art Museum for our Chestnut Hill Series. This inaugural season’s soloists will be Adam Pearl, harpsichord, Gwyn Roberts, recorder, and Emlyn Ngai, violin.

We present this series in collaboration with the Barnes on Wednesdays and with Woodmere’s Classic Sundays. After each concert, audience members will have the opportunity to speak with the artists and stroll the permanent collections and special exhibits at each museum.

“This collaboration is very exciting,” says Noel Butcher Hanley, Event Coordinator at Woodmere. “Tempesta already has a great following in Chestnut Hill. Presenting their extraordinary music-making in this new format will be a wonderful addition to Woodmere and the entire Northwest Philadelphia region.”

At the Barnes, visitors will hear the recitals on Wednesday mornings. While perhaps an unusual time for a concert performance, this time will be a “wonderful way to make a day of it,” says Barnes Foundation’s Public Programs Manager Kathleen O. Greene. “Patrons will receive a timed admission ticket to the permanent collection either immediately following the performance, or with enough time to enjoy lunch at our Garden Restaurant or Coffee Bar. We are so excited to present Tempesta during our first year on the Parkway!”

• October 17 and November 4: harpsichordist Adam Pearl performs solos by J.S. Bach, D’Anglebert, and Duphly.
   
• January 27 and January 30: Tempesta Co-Director Gwyn Roberts performs music for recorder and continuo with Adam Pearl, harpsichord, and Richard Stone, theorbo.
   
• April 28 and May 8: concertmaster Emlyn Ngai performs works for unaccompanied violin by Bach and Ysaye.

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the BBC

Tempesta the featured performer on BBC Radio 3

listen on-the-air or online, June 23–30

BBC Radio 3—the British Broadcasting Corporation’s classical, jazz and world music channel—spotlights Tempesta di Mare from Saturday, June 23 through June 30 on The Early Music Show in a program celebrating our first decade of music making.

Listen on the air or at BBC Radio 3's The Early Music Show webpage. Online listeners outside the UK: use the “Listen Now” link. Podcasts are also available within the UK.

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At the end of June our 10th Anniversary Season comes to a close. What a satisfying milestone for all of us—not to mention yet another fun season—it’s been.

We have one final act before we retire our cherished first-decade logo: we have to meet a $10,000 fundraising goal to close the financial books on the 2011–2012 season.

As with every concert organization, ticket sales and grants together make up two thirds of our financial portfolio. The third component comes in the form of public support from individual contributors, i.e., you, our audience.

Your response in this campaign has been wonderful: as of June 18, we’re $8,526 along the way. That leaves just under $1,500 to go and still a few more weeks left in the month to do it in.

Please help us meet this important fundraising goal for the current fiscal year, and hit that final high note of our 10th Anniversary Season, by June 30.

For any gift of $100 or more, we will send you a live-in-concert recording of highlights from our “Opus 10” Festival, with our thanks. But please hurry, as our June 30th deadline is right around the corner.

Next season we launch our second decade, and it is going to be amazing, with more music, including Brandenburg IV and Handel’s Messiah, and more places to enjoy it in, including The Barnes and Woodmere. Your gift today helps to ensure that we move into the future on solid financial footing.

Thank you.

Gwyn & Richard

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HIGH NOTES

Tempesta’s “Opus 10” Festival
in Review

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The reviews are in on May’s “Opus 10” Festival, and it seems that the critics enjoyed the shows as much as we all—audience and performers alike—did.

We got pullquotes out of it like “…on-the-edge speed and unshakable security,” and “…Pearl’s fingers created a bright stream that rippled between the mountains of sound created by the orchestra.” Nothing wrong with that!

We’ve excerpted the reviews and posted them on our website, where you can also find links to the full-text reviews.

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Flying on US Airways in June? Check out page 154 for a print feature on Tempesta and our pals at Piffaro. Or if you are staycationing, download and read it here.

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