Pacific Baroque Festival 2024 – Concert #5

Entrance to the Alix Goolden Performance Hall is at 900 Johnson Street. The Balcony is closed for this event.

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Songs of Love and War

Marc Destrubé, violin and artistic director
Kathryn Wiebe, violin
Natalie Mackie, viola da gamba
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and organ

​​This concert will feature selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s eighth book of “madrigals” (‘Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi’), published in Venice in 1638 when he was seventy-one years old. They represent a significant evolution in musical style, in which Monteverdi sought to express a new emotion in music. Earlier composers had only conveyed two of man’s three major passions, the soft and the moderate; a third passion, agitation (‘stile concitato’), was missing in his view. For this program, the festival instrumental ensemble will be joined by a select group of emerging young singers, specialized in this beautifully expressive music.

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Concert #1: Le Nuove Musiche 1: Naples and Rome – Frescobaldi to Scarlatti | February 27, 7:30pm, St. Barnabas Church *Not included in the Festival Pass

Concert #2: Le Nuove Musiche 2: Venice and Milan – Monteverdi to Verdi | February 28, 7:30pm, Christ Church Cathedral

Concert #3: Stile Moderno | February 29, 11:00am, Alix Goolden Performance Hall

Concert #4: Sonate Concertate | March 1, 7:30pm, Alix Goolden Performance Hall

Choral Evensong: Music Divine | March 3, 4:00pm, Christ Church Cathedral | Free Admission