Les Délices will present two concerts in the Cleveland area on Saturday, February 20 & Sunday, February 21, 2010. In addition to Debra Nagy (BM '00 & MM '02), Scott Metcalfe, Emily Walhout (BM '83), and Lisa Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Harpsichord) will be performing.
I wrote about Les Délices back in September here.
Les Délices presents "Hommages" as the second concert in their new series' inaugural season, an intimate program of musical tributes and caricatures. The group will perform at Tregoning & Company, the highly esteemed gallery inside the W. 78th St. Studio complex (1300 W. 78th St., Cleveland) on Saturday, February 20 at 8pm, and repeats its program inside Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights (2860 Coventy Rd., Shaker Heights) on Sunday, February 21 at 4pm.
The program will feature a suite for oboe by Louis-Antoine Dornel that contains musical portraits of composer Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and the flutist René Pignon Descoteaux, in addition to Jean-Philippe Rameau and Antoine Forqueray's brilliant caricatures of each other. Composers also paid tribute to departed colleagues or mentors through highly personalized laments known as tombeaux. Viola da gamba player Emily Walhout will perform Marin Marais' tombeau for his teacher, Monsieur de Seainte-Colombe.
Finally, François Couperin's Apotheosis of Lully forms the centerpiece of Les Délices' "Hommages" program. Richly imagined by Couperin as a series of musical scenes depicting Jean-Baptiste Lully's ascent into heaven, the Apotheosis will be performed with the original French narration that describes the Elysian fields and recounts a fictionalized confrontation between Lully and the Italian master Arcangelo Corelli.
Tickets for all concerts in the series are available at Les Délices. $20 General Admission, $18 Seniors & Members of Plymouth Church. $5 Student Rush available at the door.
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