[Music]
Multimedia Four Seasons by Bach Sinfonia

About This Event

The Bach Sinfonia will present an innovative program featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at the Cultural Arts Center at Silver Spring, Montgomery College, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring. For this performance, Sinfonia has commissioned visual artists Yan Da and Yana Sakellion to create new works of digital visual art based on the original sonnets as notated throughout the score. These works of art will be displayed on a large format screens behind the performers.

Da and Sakellion are creating a new series of self-contained, motion-triggered graphics. These artworks, which include the complete original sonnet texts and images are formed from particles (bits) that react to sound, and this coding within the art itself triggers the timing of the images to move along with the music performed live. This creates the direct relationship between the movement, color and size of elements on screen and the sound itself.

The artwork is based on the companion texts - four sonnets possibly authored by Vivaldi himself. The words of these sonnets (with their allusions like “the drunkards have fallen asleep”) are notated throughout the original score.

This modern technology will be mixed with a performance entirely on period instruments by Sinfonia musicians of the four concerti. Leading them as soloist is Ingrid Matthews, music director of the Seattle Baroque orchestra and one of today’s most highly-respected baroque violinists. Matthews has appeared as soloist, guest director or concertmaster with many leading early music ensembles including the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Musica Angelica (Los Angeles). Matthews has won international critical acclaim for her extensive discography; of her recording of the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach, the critic for American Record Guide writes “this superb recording is my top recommendation for this music… on either modern or period instruments.”

Recent reviews of Sinfonia performances have called the ensemble “impressive,” saying “the group's director, Daniel Abraham, serves up programs with enticing themes” and “…[he] led his period-instrument chamber orchestra in a splendid reading of these works, balancing scholarly know-how with sheerly beautiful sound, pungent drama and cogent delivery. (The Washington Post, October 2010). Andrew Lindemann Malone of DMV Classical called the March 2010 performance of Bach’s Motets “really astonishing performances.”

The Bach Sinfonia is a Maryland-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to excellence in performance and education of early music. Currently in its sixteenth season, Sinfonia presents a series of unique concerts, open dress rehearsals and listening lectures of music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sinfonia strives to create productions that differ from the standard classical music concert by providing performances that are not just listening entertainments but also learning experiences.

Free Pre-Concert Discussion at 7:15 p.m.

TICKETS:
$30 adult
$27 seniors (60 and up)
$15 (ages 15 – University)
FREE (ages 14 and under)

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