Sunday, June 23 2024, 4:00 pm
St Mark's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach
Tickets: $50
Nola Richardson (soprano), Clifton Massey (countertenor), Gregório Taniguchi (tenor) and Jesse Blumberg (baritone) join the Festival Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, “Eternal Source of Light Divine” (Kathryn Adduci, baroque trumpet) and Purcell’s ode Welcome to All the Pleasures. Plus, instrumental selections from Purcell’s stage work Dioclesian, a Purcell In nomine for solo strings, and Handel’s celebrated Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 11 with its beautiful violin solos.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695): In nomine in six parts for solo strings, Z. 746
Purcell: Suite from Dioclesian (instrumental selections)
Purcell: Ode, Welcome to All the Pleasures
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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne “Eternal Source of Light Divine”
Nola Richardson, soprano
Clifton Massey, countertenor
Gregório Taniguchi, tenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Festival Orchestra and Chorus, directed by Elizabeth Blumenstock
Followed by a complimentary wine & waters reception for all ticket holders, on the patio with the musicians.
This concert is supported by a grant from the City of Newport Beach
Post-concert wine & waters reception sponsored by John McHugh.
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Painting featured above (detail): Gerrit van Honthorst’s “The Concert” or “Theft of the Amulet” 1620s. Read about this painting here. View the full image here.