Tonight, April 27, 2019 at 8PM EDT (GMT -4), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present a Vivaldi-rich concert webcast. Nicholas McGegan will conduct. You can see the concert here. The program also includes a concerto by Anna Clyne. Here is the program:
Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings, RV 114
Anna Clyne: Concerto for Mandolin and Strings, “Three Sisters”
Vivaldi: Concerto for Mandolin, R 425
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso, RV 565 (from L’estro armónico)
Vivaldi: Gloria, R 589
It is heartbreaking to see the flames soaring above Notre Dame de Paris cathedral. Such beauty destroyed, centuries of work by countless architects, artists, and craftsmen, consumed. It is the cradle of Western polyphony. It is where Perotin, Leonin, and other anonymous medieval composers heard their music sound against the stone walls, changing Western music forever.
Here is Perotin’s Beata Viscera.
You may also wish to see my post Christmas 1198.
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Image attribution: The north transept rose stained glass window at Notre Dame, Paris. Photograph by Oliver J. Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 3.0]. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_north_transept_rose_at_Notre-Dame_de_Paris.jpg
On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8:00 PM EDT (GMT -4), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will feature pianist Hélène Grimaud performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Also on the program are Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and a new work, Divisions, a commemoration of World War I, written by Sebastian Currier. Ludovic Morlot will conduct. You can see the concert at www.dso.org/live or on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/detroitsymphony).
Catapulting into Classical 