Two performances:

Saturday, March 27, 8:00 pm, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston

Sunday, March 28, 4:00 pm, First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester

Tickets $25 general admission, $20 seniors and students

To purchase tickets in advance or for information, call 781.466.6694
or visit www.oldpostroad.org

 

 

Musicians of the Old Post Road presents passionate and sparkling works of the Italian Baroque in two performances of Virtuosi Italiani. The concert will feature brilliant vocal and instrumental works, including Antonio Vivaldi’s fiery motet In turbato mare, his cantata All’ ombra di sospetto, the regional premiere of Pietro Nardini’s Flute Concerto in D Major, a string sinfonia by Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and a concerto grosso by Pietro Locatelli. Joining the ensemble will be soprano Kristen Watson who made her debut with the ensemble last December to critical and audience acclaim. Performers include Suzanne Stumpf, traverso, Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violins, Marcia Cassidy, viola, Daniel Ryan, cello, and Michael Bahmann, harpsichord, with guest vocalist, Kristen Watson, soprano.

Performances will take place on Saturday, March 27, 8 p.m., at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston, and on Sunday, March 28, 4 p.m., at First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street in Worcester.

 

This concert is dedicated to the memory of long-time Old Post Road supporter and volunteer, Joanne Hall. Wife of Musicians of the Old Post Road Board vice-president, Charles Hall, Joanne was a dedicated volunteer who assisted with clerical work in the Old Post Road office for many years as well as helping out at concerts where she was a joyful presence.

 

Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 for seniors and students. Children ages 7 to 17 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Old Post Road concert sites are wheelchair accessible. For tickets and additional information, contact Musicians of the Old Post Road, 318 Bear Hill Road, Suite 9, Waltham, MA 02451, telephone (781) 466-6694, or visit OPR’s website at www.oldpostroad.org. Musicians of the Old Post Road concert series is sponsored, in part, by The Furumoto Research Foundation, The Bear Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This program is also funded by individual contributions to Old Post Road’s Programming Fund.

Musicians of the Old Post Road is a chamber music ensemble specializing in the period instrument performance of music from the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods. The ensemble has received national recognition for its creative programming, garnering the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, and awards from Chamber Music America and the U.S.–Mexico Fund for Culture. The group has appeared on New England's WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” program and toured throughout Europe and the United States, including performances at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany, the Boston Early Music Festival concert series, and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. The ensemble was in residence at Dartmouth College in April, 2005. 

 

The ensemble’s acclaimed concert series, founded in 1989, brings chamber music performances to venues in cities and towns along the original route of the old Boston Post Road, the first thoroughfare connecting Boston and New York City beginning in the late seventeenth century. Sites for the concert series have included historic meetinghouses, mansions, museums, and public halls offering the architecture, acoustics, and ambiance appropriate to the music.

The group’s discography includes five critically acclaimed recordings: “The Virtuoso Double Bass,” “Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel,” “Galant with an Attitude: Music of Juan and José Pla,” and “Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus.” A fifth CD, “Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain,” was recently released on Meridian Records of London.