Musicians of the Old Post Road Presents 'Blazing Italian Baroque'

 

For Immediate Release 

February 5, 2024 

 

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Musicians of the Old Post Road 

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MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD

presents

Blazing Italian Baroque

 

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 4:00 pm
First Parish, Wayland, MA
and live-streamed at www.oldpostroad.org 

Sunday, March 10, 2024, 4:00 pm
Old South Church, Boston, MA

In-person Audience Tickets $10-$55, kids come free with an adult

Virtual Audience Tickets: $35 individual, $70 family, $10 students

 

Musicians of the Old Post Road continues its 35th anniversary season Elements, which explores little-known and rarely-performed works through the lens of the four Classical elements: water, air, fire, and earth. The ensemble will present Blazing Italian Baroque, a program brimming with fiery Baroque pyrotechnics, on March 9th  at 4 pm at First Parish, Wayland (and online) and March 10th  at 4 pm at Old South Church, Boston.

The program explores chamber works by some of the many outstanding Italian virtuosi of the Baroque era. Works for strings include Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Trio Sonata in D Minor (“La Follia”), a series of variations that builds to an excited frenzy, as well as some of Domenico Scarlatti’s thrilling harpsichord sonatas imaginatively arranged as a concerto grosso for strings by Charles Avison.

Francesco Geminiani’s brilliant and commanding Cello Sonata in B-flat Major will also be featured, along with the daringly creative and virtuosic Flute Sonata in C Major by Anna Bon, an important female composer working at the courts of Bayreuth and Esterhazy. The program concludes with the colorful, masterful Flute Concerto in D Major by the violin virtuoso Pietro Nardini, which the ensemble originally revived in 2010 for the work’s regional premiere.

Musicians for these concerts, all of whom will play on period instruments, include flutist Suzanne Stumpf, violinists Sarah Darling and Amelia Sie, violist Marcia Cassidy, cellist Daniel Ryan, and harpsichordist Benjamin Katz.

Single In-Person Tickets are $55 general admission, $50 seniors, $35 for under 35. Kids 18 and under are free with an adult. Day-Of-Concert Rush Tickets (students and EBT Card holders only) are $10, availability permitting. Premier Season Subscriptions are available for $250. Virtual single tickets and virtual subscriptions are also available.

For more information, visit www.oldpostroad.org, email musicians@oldpostroad.org, or call 781-466-6694.

The Boston concert is supported, in part, by a grant by the Boston Cultural Council. The Wayland concert is presented in partnership with the Wayland Museum and Historical Society. Programming is also supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

ABOUT MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD

Musicians of the Old Post Road takes its name from its acclaimed concert series that brings period instrument performances of music of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to beautiful historic buildings along New England’s fabled Old Post Road, the first thoroughfare to connect Boston and New York City in the late 17th century.

Winner of the 1998 and 2023 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road has also received programming awards from Early Music America, Chamber Music America and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. The ensemble has toured in Germany, Austria, and Mexico, and has appeared at festivals and on concert series in the US, including the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival Concert Series, the Castle Hill Festival, the Artists Series at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. The ensemble has held a residency at Dartmouth College and was featured on WCVB television’s “Chronicle” program and 99.5 All Classical radio’s “Live from Fraser” program.

The ensemble’s discography includes seven recordings that have each been praised in the US and abroad. They include: The Virtuoso Double Bass (Titanic, 1994), Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel (Meridian, 1999), Galant with an Attitude: Music of Juan and José Pla (Meridian, 2000), Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus (Meridian, 2004), Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain (Meridian, 2008), Roman Handel (Centaur, 2013), and Earthly Baroque (Centaur, 2017). 

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Press Contact:

Joanna Boyle, General Manager

Musicians of the Old Post Road

781.466.6694

musicians@oldpostroad.org