Hello Early Music Fans,

I’m incredibly excited for our coming season. We have arranged for a wonderfully varied series of concerts –
featuring music across 500 years, from local and international performers. The season begins with ]a joyous noise – a lavish chamber orchestra playing Graupner, an early Haydn symphony, and featuring Michael Bahmann as fortepiano soloist in Mozart’s concerto in A major. The rhythmic vitality of the Spanish Renaissance and Latin America will surprise and delight you in Fandango!, and the elegant singing by The Gesualdo Six from England showcases the glories of the English motet. For Christmas we travel to 17th C Paris for music of Charpentier, sung by Schola Cantorum with viols, organ and theorbo.

 

In the winter we pay tribute to one of the founders of our series, Mary Sadovnikoff. Mary was among the first Americans to build historical fortepianos, and she performed and recorded extensively. With Alison Fowle, she began presenting chamber concerts at the RISD Museum almost 60 years ago - (hence our name). Sylvia Berry will perform some of Mary’s favorite composers, and we will offer a tribute to Mary’s extensive career with an exhibition. The season ends with the wild violin music of Heinrich Biber with Newton Baroque – a joyous conclusion to our fine array of music.

 

We hope many of you can subscribe to our whole series, and please be sure to tell a few friends of our musical adventures. Please do consider making a generous donation to help support the best of early music in Rhode Island!

 

L. Frederick Jodry

President, Museum Concerts

 

PS. The location for our last concert of Season 58,
on April 13, 2025, will take place at the First Unitarian Church, in Providence

 

 

Museum Concerts, PO Box 23055, Providence, RI 02903

www.museumconcerts.org