Heads Up, Boston Area Renaissance Music Lovers
Massachusetts
This weekend, you’ll have the rare opportunity to hear La Donna Musicale perform Baroque Music by Women Composers. The non-profit group, formed in 1992, is dedicated to researching and performing music written by women composers of the Renaissance, and later, periods.
Saturday’s concert is in conjunction with the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum’s current Exhibition, “The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance,” October 16, 2008 – January 28, 2009. Good thing the Museum website explained that a Cassoni was a large chest that was part of the bride’s dowry, because I’d never heard of them. They’ve got special programs throughout the exhibition period that discuss marriage ceremonies, the contents of the Cassoni, and this weekend’s celebration of the art and culture of Renaissance Italy. In addition to the concert, there’ll be a performance by the Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company.
Sunday’s event is part of the ongoing Sunday Concert Series at Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain.
Tweet ThisThe Power of Love:
Renaissance Women Composers
Music by Casulana, Alleotti and Massarenghi
In conjunction with the Gardner museum exhibition
Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance.Saturday, November 1st at 12 noon and also at 1PM
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
280 The Fenway
Boston MA 02115
Family Program: Discovery Saturday
Free with museum admissionSunday, November 2 at 3PM
Sunday Concert Series at Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston
Tickets $15 ($10 for JPTC, EMA & VdGS members)
