Repertoire
This concert features works by Biagio Marini, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Salamone Rossi, Dario Castello, Girolamo Fescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Girolamo Fescobaldi, Biagio Marini, and Tarquinio Merula.
Performers
Rebecca Cypess
harpsichord
Dongmyung Ahn
violin
Nina Stern
recorder
Charles Weaver
theorbo
Location
Library of the Italian Academy
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY
About The Performance
A concert of seventeenth-century music by Salamone Rossi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Tarquinio Merula, and other Italian composers.
The evening includes remarks by harpsichordist Rebecca Cypess, author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy, which explores how both musical and scientific instruments served as vehicles of exploration and innovation.
For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.
Image: courtesy of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America