World of Wonder
Saturday, November 20, 2021, 3PM
Bachgrounder pre-concert talk at 2:25PM
Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
Dianna Morgan, soprano · Christopher Fritzsche, alto · Live Oak Baroque Orchestra

LOBO joins with vocalists Christopher Fritzsche and Dianna Morgan to present music of the 17th-century Stylus Fantasticus. Originating in Italy, this exciting mercurial style moved north across the Alps to be adopted and developed in Austria, Germany and beyond. Its frequent shifts of harmony and tempo, surprising jagged motifs, and kaleidoscopic textures often elicit a sense of delight or awe in the listener, analogous to the effects produced by the contemporaneous ‘cabinets of wonder’ in which artifacts from the natural world were displayed. Program includes sonatas, chaconnes, chorale settings and duets from the Song of Songs by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Rosenmüller, Antonio Bertali, and Andreas Hammerschmidt, among others.

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Chrysanthemum, Keika Hasegawa

Glory be to God for dappled things...
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
​    from Pied Beauty

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