L’Altra Italia e Il Centro Scuola di Toronto presentano:
Progetto Galileo: Musica delle Sfere.
Un concerto della rinomata orchestra Barocca Tafelmusik che si trasforma in itinerario culturale nella scienza verso le radici dell’individuo, lo spazio e la scoperta.
Brani musicali scelti tra i repertori di Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann e J.S. Bach , che accompagneranno lo spettatore nelle diverse dimensioni esplorabili dall’uomo.
Venerdì, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor Street West
Biglietti $27.00
Prenotazioni laltraitalia@mac.com
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Fri, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor Street West
Tickets $27.00
laltraitalia@mac.com
Back by popular demand – Tafelmusik’s “out of this world” (Toronto Star) multi-disciplinary stellar concert experience, conceived and programmed by our own Alison Mackay as an homage to Galileo. Gorgeous, celestially-inspired baroque music, stunning visuals, and seamlessly woven literary and historical excerpts narrated by Shaun Smyth. Don’t miss it!
An imaginative concert designed by Alison Mackay, creator of Metamorphosis, Chariots of Fire, Bach in Leipzig Includes music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann and J.S. Bach Approximate concert run time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (with intermission) Notes In late 16th-century Florence, the house of the lutenist and composer Vincenzo Galilei was a fertile breeding ground for important innovations in the realms of music and of science. Vincenzo’s experiments with the expressive power of accompanied solo song influenced the creation of opera as a musical form, and the style of music that we now describe as “baroque.” He also conducted repeated trials under controlled conditions with lute strings to find the mathematical formulas that express the relationships among length, tension and musical pitch. He is thought to have been assisted in these experiments by his oldest son, Galileo Galilei, a brilliant young teacher of mathematics who went on to apply his expertise to world-changing discoveries about the universe. Galileo inherited his spirit of scientific inquiry and a love of playing the lute from his father, and it is fitting that a musical tribute should honour an astronomer whose intellectual and artistic vitality stemmed from a place where music and science intersected. The first performances of The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres were Tafelmusik’s contribution to the International Year of Astronomy, marking 2009 as the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s development and use of the astronomical telescope. ———————————- 
Programmed and scripted by Alison Mackay Shaun Smyth narrator The Harmony of the Spheres I Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, op. 3, no. 5 Jean-Baptiste Lully – Music from Phaeton Music from the Time of Galileo Claudio Monteverdi – Ritornello, from Orfeo Ciaccona, after Zefiro torna Tarquinio Merula – Ciaccona Michelangelo Galilei – Toccata for solo lute, from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto Biagio Marini – Passacaglia C. Monteverdi – Moresca, from Orfeo INTERMISSION Henry Purcell – Song Tune “See, even night herself is here,” from Fairy Queen Rondeau, from Abdelazer The Dresden Festival of the Planets Jean-Philippe Rameau Entrée de Jupiter (Entrance of Jupiter), from Hippolyte et Aricie George Frideric Handel Allegro, from Concerto grosso in D Major, op. 3, no. 6 J-P. Rameau Entrée de Venus (Entrance of Venus), from Les surprises de l’Amour Georg Philipp Telemann Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major Jan Dismas Zelenka Adagio ma non troppo, from Sonata in F Major J-P. Rameau Entrée de Mercure (Entrance of Mercury), from Platée J-B. Lully Air pour les Suivants de Saturne (Air for the followers of Saturn), from Phaeton Silvius Leopold Weiss Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C Major Anonymous, 18th century The Astronomical Drinking Song The Harmony of the Spheres II Johann Sebastian Bach Sinfonia “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” Marin Marais – Tambourins, from Alcione
