prometheus

Marvelous Dust: 17th-Century Female Perspectives
on the Dissolution of Beauty

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Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 8 PM
St. Paul's Chapel
Columbia University

Thursday, 31 May 2007, 7:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, NYC (between 34th and 35th st)

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Star of the Sea: Italian Baroque Conceptions of Marian Desire

This program features musical representations of
and homage to the Virgin Mary from early
seventeenth-century Italy, by Monteverdi, Gesualdo
and others.  These representations display
ecstatic appreciation for Mary, which borders
on erotic desire. 

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Penington Friends House
21 April, 2006

Cathedral of St. John the Divine
19 November, 2006



Baroque Madness: From Beds of Raging Fire


This program features mad songs and madrigals
from seventeenth-century England and Italy, which are
staged with gesture inspired by contemporary emblem
books.

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Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
05 May, 2005

301 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
Columbia University Graduate Recital Series
02 December, 2005

Dartmouth College
Vaughan Recital Series
 March, 2006


The Baroque Woman: Sacred and Profane

Featuring the female members of Prometheus,
this program presents music inspired by
and written for concerti delle donne,
groups of virtuosic female singers
of the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
24  May, 2005




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