The concert lasts approximately 60 minutes and is recommended for kids ages 6 and up. The scores of 21 of his operas, including his first and last, are still intact. Vivaldi wrote more than 400 concertos for various instruments, especially for the violin. 1 He was the most important composer in Italy at the end of the Baroque period. This exciting concert and story performance features Randy Garcia as Giovanni/Vivaldi and Raquel Sofia Lebish as Katarina, with stage direction by Ricky J. Antonio Vivaldi (born Venice, 4 March 1678 died Vienna, 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer. The Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery theatrical symphony concert is "an imaginative way to introduce young audiences and their families to the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi in a live performance venue." The music is magically woven into the drama as two actors solve a mystery built around the historic context of the composer’s real life and his school of the Pietá. Enjoy more than 25 excerpts from Vivaldi’s most popular works, including the Four Seasons, the Violin Concerto in A minor, and the Guitar Concerto. A central clue to the mystery is a missing Stradivarius violin that the Duke of Cremona has brought to Vivaldi’s school of the Pietá in the hopes of finding his long- lost grandchild. A virtuoso violinist who is considered one of the most important Baroque composers, he was influential for the whole of Europe. This Classical Kids production presents a compelling mystery about an orphan girl in the early 1700s who is in search of her roots. For example: Haydn in the Classical Period would often change its mood during a piece.Vivaldi, Venice and violins: all three are celebrated in Each movement in a concerto also had one particular mood. There were several “affections” or moods: there were arias about revenge, jealousy, anger, love, despair, peaceful happiness etc. When a soloist in an opera sings a song (an aria) the aria is in a particular mood. Polyphony was widely used in instrumental music, but was not used in opera, which needed to tell a story without being confusing. In the Renaissance the groups of a choir were often singing several different words using different melodies all at once. Again: the composer did not write this all down but left it to the performer to improvise something nice around the notes he had written.īecause composers were now writing opera it was important for the audience to hear the words clearly. The soloist, who played or sang the melody on top, often put in lots of ornamental notes. This is called “figured bass” or “ basso continuo”. Often the composer did not bother to write out all the chords ( harmonies) but just showed some of the chords by figures, leaving it to the performer to decide exactly which notes to play. There was also a harpsichord or organ that played the bass line as well, and made up chords in between. This could be, for example, a singer and a cello. The player could change from one manual to the other, contrasting two different sounds.īaroque music was often a melody with a bass line at the bottom. Organs, and some harpsichords, had at least two manuals (keyboards). Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are good examples. These are called by the Italian name " Concerti Grossi. Sometimes a concerto contrasted a group of soloists with the rest of the orchestra. These were pieces for orchestra and a solo instrument. The idea of two contrasting groups was used a lot in Baroque music.
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