FANTASTIC BAROQUE!
Sacred Poly-Choral Works and Opera Choruses from the early Baroque to the early Classical periods in Latin America and Europe
Crescendo Chorus, Soloists, and Period Instrument Orchestra
directed by Christine Gevert

Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 4 pm
Saint James Place, Gt. Barrington, MA

Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 4 pm
Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT

Celebrating Baroque vocal music, this program features festive sacred and secular works for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. The motets, villancicos and choruses are by composers Manuel de Zumaya, Domenico Zipoli, Antonio Vivaldi, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach. The Baroque opera excerpts are by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (composer of the first Latin American opera), Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Christoph Willibald Gluck among others.