L’Altra Italia e Il Centro Scuola di Toronto presentano:
Progetto Galileo: Musica delle Sfere.
Un concerto della rinomata orchestra Barocca Tafelmusik che si trasforma in itinerario culturale nella scienza verso le radici dell’individuo, lo spazio e la scoperta.
Brani musicali scelti tra i repertori di Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann e
J.S. Bach , che accompagneranno lo spettatore nelle diverse dimensioni esplorabili dall’uomo.
Venerdì, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor Street West
Biglietti $27.00
Prenotazioni laltraitalia@mac.com
Per il programma vedi sotto.
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Fri, 4 Mar, ’11 8:00PM
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor Street West
Tickets $27.00
laltraitalia@mac.com
Back by popular demand – Tafelmusik’s “out of this world” (Toronto Star) multi-disciplinary stellar concert experience, conceived and programmed by our own Alison Mackay as an homage to Galileo. Gorgeous, celestially-inspired baroque music, stunning visuals, and seamlessly woven literary and historical excerpts narrated by Shaun Smyth. Don’t miss it!
An imaginative concert designed by Alison Mackay,
creator of Metamorphosis, Chariots of Fire, Bach in Leipzig
Includes music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Telemann and
J.S. Bach
Approximate concert run time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (with intermission)
Notes
In late 16th-century Florence, the house of the lutenist and composer Vincenzo Galilei was a fertile
breeding ground for important innovations in the realms of music and of science. Vincenzo’s experiments with
the expressive power of accompanied solo song influenced the creation of opera as a musical form, and the style
of music that we now describe as “baroque.”
He also conducted repeated trials under controlled conditions with lute strings to find the mathematical
formulas that express the relationships among length, tension and musical pitch. He is thought to have been
assisted in these experiments by his oldest son, Galileo Galilei, a brilliant young teacher of mathematics who
went on to apply his expertise to world-changing discoveries about the universe.
Galileo inherited his spirit of scientific inquiry and a love of playing the lute from his father, and it is fitting
that a musical tribute should honour an astronomer whose intellectual and artistic vitality stemmed from a place
where music and science intersected.
The first performances of The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres were Tafelmusik’s contribution to the
International Year of Astronomy, marking 2009 as the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s development and use of the
astronomical telescope.
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Programmed and scripted by Alison Mackay
Shaun Smyth narrator
The Harmony of the Spheres I
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, op. 3, no. 5
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Music from Phaeton
Music from the Time of Galileo
Claudio Monteverdi – Ritornello, from Orfeo
Ciaccona, after Zefiro torna
Tarquinio Merula – Ciaccona
Michelangelo Galilei – Toccata for solo lute, from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto
Biagio Marini – Passacaglia
C. Monteverdi – Moresca, from Orfeo
INTERMISSION
Henry Purcell – Song Tune “See, even night herself is here,” from Fairy Queen
Rondeau, from Abdelazer
The Dresden Festival of the Planets
Jean-Philippe Rameau Entrée de Jupiter (Entrance of Jupiter), from Hippolyte et Aricie
George Frideric Handel Allegro, from Concerto grosso in D Major,
op. 3, no. 6
J-P. Rameau Entrée de Venus (Entrance of Venus), from Les surprises de l’Amour
Georg Philipp Telemann Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major
Jan Dismas Zelenka Adagio ma non troppo, from Sonata in F Major
J-P. Rameau Entrée de Mercure (Entrance of Mercury), from Platée
J-B. Lully Air pour les Suivants de Saturne (Air for the followers of Saturn),
from Phaeton
Silvius Leopold Weiss Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C Major
Anonymous, 18th century The Astronomical Drinking Song
The Harmony of the Spheres II
Johann Sebastian Bach Sinfonia “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”
Marin Marais – Tambourins, from Alcione
