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FreeChamber, Court & Convent: Songs & Sonatas by 17th-century Italian Women Composers
Early Music Missouri brings a recital program to the Kemper that features songs and sonatas by women composers and composer/performers from 17th-century Italy. The program will include secular music composed for a private academy in Venice and the Medici court in Florence, as well as devotional works for convents in Milan and Novara. The program offers music by the composers/performers Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, as well as the nuns Isabella Leonarda and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
Performers, drawn from the ranks of Early Music Missouri's roster of regional Early Music specialists, will be sopranos Arianna Aerie and Samantha Arten, Baroque violinist Celina Boldrey, Baroque cellist Stephanie Hunt, and lutenist Jeffrey Noonan.
Arrive early or stay after to grab lunch at the Museum’s Coffee Bar. Enjoy ice cream sandwiches from Sugarwitch, savory deli sandwiches from Parker’s Table, and pastries from Colleen’s. Members get 10% off your purchase with every visit. Learn more and join here.
These 45-minute concerts are free and open to the public.
Performers
Samantha Arten & Arianna Aerie, sopranos
Celina Boldrey, Baroque violin
Stephanie Hunt, Baroque cello
Jeffrey Noonan, theorbo & Baroque guitar
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Event Venue
WashU Kemper Art Museum, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 1 Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130, United States, Clayton
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