with Louise Chernosky, harpsichord
    and Elizabeth Weinfield, gamba

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
St. Paul's Church, Columbia University
116th St and Amsterdam, New York City
8:00PM, Free admission

The three ladies of Prometheus perform music expressing the 17th-century fascination with "nothingness" and fleeting experience. Music written by female composers forges a particularly interesting relationship to the trope of nothingness. Throughout Western history, physical beauty has traditionally been the standard by which female worth is judged. Our use of period gesture calls attention to the evanescence of our physical bodies, from which sound and form issue forth before fading into memory.

Featuring music of Strozzi, Cozzolani, Leonarda, and others.

Concert history.