First Church of Christ, Scientist Victoria

The program features the instrumental sonatas of composers including Schmeltzer, Kerll, Rosenmüller, Fux and Weichlein. The virtuosic ensemble presents a unique sound with the combination of strings, continuo, sackbut and dulcian. Program: Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c. 1623–1680) Sonata 7 a […]

Very far from the image we have of ancient dance - hierarchical, starched, solemn - dance in the 15th and 16th centuries was elegant, refined and aristocratic, but also spectacularly virtuosic, theatrical and allegorical in the sumptuous interludes given during […]