I devoted this week’s episode to Italian music and culture.  I performed selections by Vivaldi, Mercadante, and Genin and discuss music in Dante’s “Commedia,” one of the most fascinating topics I’ve researched and written about.

Genin, Theme and Variations on Carnival of Venice

Vivaldi, Largo from Concerto in C Major for piccolo and orchestra (with my recording of the piano part)

Mercadante, Variations on Rossini’s “Per cara quest’anima” from Armida

Talk on Dante with musical examples

For further reading, here’s the link to my paper “The Music of Dante’s Purgatorio” in Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies

https://hortulus-journal.com/journal/volume-1-number-1-2005/

This week’s “Tea with Mimi” was the start of “Las Américas,” a two-week exploration of music from Latin America, the United States, and Spain from a diverse group of composers.

The program:

D’Rivera: Vals Venezolano y Contradanza

Coleman: Danza de la Mariposa

Piazzolla: Etudes tanguistiques

Zhou: Viaje

Ludwig: Sonata #1

Velázquez, Bésame mucho

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Theme: Dance

Program:

J.S. Bach, Partita in A Minor I. Allemanda II. Corrente

Honegger, Danse de la Chevre

Heidi Jacob, “Preludio” from Suite for Flute and Piano

Piazzolla, Etudes tanguistiques #3
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Here are the live stream videos of Mimi’s performance of the Mozart flute quartet cycle with members of the Jasper String Quartet from Dolce Suono Ensemble’s “Fall for Chamber Music” event on January 30, 2019. After the performance, the artists gave a masterclass ffor chamber ensembles from Temple Music Prep and Haverford College.

To see the concert program, click here.

Video part 1: https://www.facebook.com/dolcesuonoensemble/videos/579324235875535/

Video part 2: https://www.facebook.com/dolcesuonoensemble/videos/923934971136513/