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November 25, 2009

Candlelit chamber music for Christmas

Andover series offers 'Baroque Big Band' at South Church

Nothing celebrates the warmth of the holidays like the glorious concertos of the Baroque Era performed in the church settings for which they were composed, believes Julie Scolnik, artistic director of the Andover Chamber Music Series.

So the Andover Chamber Music Series and Mistral, its ensemble-in-residence, will usher in December with "The Baroque Big Band," their annual concert of 18th century masterpieces by Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann. There will be a candlelit performance in Andover on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m. at South Church, Central Street.

There is another concert on Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the First Church Congregational, in Cambridge, Mass.

This concert features Vivaldi's most celebrated work, The Four Seasons, perhaps the boldest and most brilliant form of program music in the Baroque Period. These beloved concertos were said to have taken their inspiration from sonnets whose specific accounts of the seasons can be heard in every line of music - the lightening and thunder of a spring storm followed by flowery meadows and goatherds, the happy harvest of autumn, the freezing snowflakes and chattering teeth of winter, accordind to the ACMS.

"A surprise narrator will introduce each movement with the corresponding prose. Each season will be led by not one but four different virtuosic violin soloists: Irina Muresanu: winter, Kristopher Tong: summer, Yura Lee: fall, and Gabriela Diaz: spring, each of whom has garnered prestigious awards in their careers as international concert artists," according to an ACMS release. This concert is in memory of the late Hart Leavitt, longtime Andover resident, teacher at Phillips Academy, board member emeritus of ACMS and music-lover.

Tickets are $30 for general admission with a $10 student rush. For more information call 978-474-6222 or visit www.andoverchambermusic.org.

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Candlelit chamber music for Christmas
by Anonymous , , Wed Nov 25, 2009, 05:56 AM EST
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