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Musica Spira: Forth From Her Pen

Folger Shakespeare Library, Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St NE, Washington, DC 20003, United States

05/20/2023 - 05/20/2023

concert
symphonic

About the event

Local emerging early music ensemble Musica Spira presents Forth From Her Pen: Music by 17th-Century Italian Women.


Women have been actively involved in the process of music-making as performers and composers since antiquity, although their contributions have often been overshadowed in our historical narratives. Seventeenth-century Italy, in particular, was home to a number of women whose musical works would come to define the most important genres of the Baroque period.


Musica Spira’s program features music by four women who excelled as professional musicians in a variety of settings. Isabella Leonarda and Lucrezia Vizzana spent their lives in convents composing sacred motets and sonatas for their fellow sisters. Francesca Caccini was the highest-paid musician at the Medici court and the first woman to write a fully-staged musical dramatic work. Barbara Strozzi was one of the most prolific composers of her time, publishing eight volumes of cantatas that she performed in her father’s private salon.

Artists

Paula Maust, Grace Srinivasan, Amy Domigues, Crossley Hawn

Price

$25

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Live Event
Folger Shakespeare Library, Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St NE, Washington, DC 20003, United States
Small Theater
No kids under 5 years old

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