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Arcadia Players embraces
historical performance practice to illuminate and invigorate the great Western heritage of vocal and instrumental music. |
Next Concert
Vermeer’s “The Concert”
March 7-8, 2025 in the Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley Two performances: Friday March 7 @ 7:30pm; Saturday March 8 at 3 pm In cooperation with the Mount Holyoke College Music Department Sophie Michaux – voice Douglas Kelley – viola da gamba Nathaniel Cox – lute and cittern Andrus Madsen – harpsichord In 1664 Johannes Vermeer painted a domestic music scene in which a singer is joined by a harpsichordist and a lutenist, with a viola da gamba on the floor and a bandora or a cittern on the table. (The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has never been recovered.) This concert will be a reproduction of the music these musicians might have played, sampling from works widely available in Rotterdam in the 1650s, including then-popular Roman cantatas written for the instruments and voice depicted in the painting. |
