Opus 1

Saturday October 4, 4:00 pm

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
21 Clara Barton St., Dansville, NY

Sunday October 5, 3:00 pm

Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Simon Cyrene
Two Saints Church
17 S. Fitzhugh St., Rochester, NY

Boel Gidholm & Mary Riccardi, violin
Christopher Haritatos, violoncello
Naomi Gregory, harpsichord
Deborah Fox, theorbo

"Opus 1" refers to the first published collection of a composer, in which they will carefully decide how first to present themselves and their works to the world. When developing their own style, artists find inspiration in the works of earlier generations, traces of which we can listen for in these Opus 1 selections. But every generation, and every individual composer, also has something new and unique to say. For example, Arcangelo Corelli's Op. 1 (published when he was all of 28 years old) was inventive and influential enough to change the course of music history, but even so, influences from his predecessors are unmistakable.

In this program we are looking forward to sharing our excitement in discovering connections among several of our favorite Baroque composers when exploring their early works. We are focusing on approximately a century of music beginning in the first decades of 17th-century Italy, making our way through the program as far as to 18th-century England. This enjoyable afternoon will include works of Marini, Castello, Corelli, Geminiani, Boni, and Avison, and will finish with Antonio Vivaldi's rousing Folia.

Admission free! (Suggested donation $20)