Sun Oct 18 · 7:00pm
An Outburst of Improvisors: 17th Century Music for Violin and Harpsichord
Faculty artists Dana Maiben, violin, and Vivian Montgomery, harpsichord, play Italian music of the 1600s, when performer and composer were the same person: instrumental covers of the day's popular songs, some of the earliest violin sonatas, ground-bass pieces and improvisation. Composers include Barbara Strozzi, Biagio Marini, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Isabella Leonarda and Salamone Rossi, and the program closes with the premiere of an improvisation-based work by John Morrison.