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Apollo’s Fire: Echoes Across the Atlantic
Across the waters, tales of love, despair and resilience emerge from the palaces of Europe and the plantations of the Caribbean – with surprising resonance for today.A suite from Handel's masterful Agrippina (1709) leads to a dramatic recitation from a Caribbean funeral oration of the…
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Programme
1Selections from Agrippina: Instrumental dances, L’Alma mia fra le tempeste
2'C’en est trop… Quand l’acquilon fougueux' from Dardanus
3Suite from Alcyone Chaconne – La Tempête – Marche des Matelots (L’amants malheureux)
4'O Welcome, Gentle Death' from Venus & Adonis
5'A Black of Guadeloupe' - funeral oration for an enslaved man who was "kill'd by his master for taking a loaf of bread as he pass'd thro the kitchen"
6Lè M’Mouri (music by Joachim Horsley, lyrics by Felix Morisseau-Leroy from the Haitian poem “Testaman")
7'Ah, Ruggiero crudel… Ombre pallide', from Alcina
8'Passecaille' from Persée
9Call Up Meh Rosebud
10Morena Osha (traditional Trinidad & Tobago calypso)
11La Folia (“Madness”), after the Trio Sonata RV 63
12'Air de La Folie' from Platée
Performers
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Jeannette SorrellConductorJD
Jeanine De BiqueSoprano