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March 2020
Torchsongs Transformed
“Interweaving pop, jazz, and Baroque music in a coherent, meaningful, and dazzling fashion.” - ClevelandClassical.com Les Délices brings their innovative baroque-jazz fusion program to a new level with fresh songs and arrangements featuring soprano Hélène Brunet with members of L’Harmonie des Saisons (Quebec). Timeless melodies and inspired improvisations bridge the gap between baroque composers and 20th C songsters as we…
Find out more »LD Steps Out: Songs Without Words
LD Steps Out in partnership with the Cleveland Public Library with Songs Without Words--a special program of timeless melodies and inspired improvisations that finds common ground between the tender sentiments and rich harmonic language of 17th-century love songs and 20th century tunes made famous by Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, and more. Listeners will be transported by the innovative…
Find out more »Epic Fantasies
Presented by Hudson Library & Historical Society. Acclaimed by the New York Times for “concerts and recordings are journeys of discovery," Baroque ensemble Les Délices combines readings from poems and literary works with evocative sonatas and instrumental fantasies by François Couperin, Jean-Féry Rebel and others in a new program for HLHS. Excerpts from d’Urfée’s romantic epic l’Astrée, Homer’s Odyssey, and…
Find out more »Caractères de la danse
Presented by Academy of Early Music. An essential element in the ballroom and on the theater stage, music for dancing is at the heart of French baroque style. Les Délices’ program includes Rebel’s brilliant Caractères de la Danse (a fantasia choreographed for a single virtuoso dancer), a scene from Rameau’s Pigmalion, solo suites for oboe and viol by Philidor and…
Find out more »April 2020
Into the Labyrinth
“as if a spell were cast... the world around us was changed.” - audience member Music by Marais, Clérambault, Couperin and Biber animates Aesop’s Fables and provides a soundtrack for the Countess D’Aulnoy’s 17th-Century feminist fairy tale The White Cat. This multi-media performance combining Baroque music with live puppetry and gorgeous visuals will evoke the experience of visiting Louis XIV’s…
Find out more »Family Program: The White Cat
Special Family-Friendly Version of Into the Labyrinth – Kids 17 and under FREE with accompanying adult! Discover a little-known version of a beloved fairy tale at this 45-minute family-oriented performance that combines Baroque music with live puppetry and gorgeous visuals. Unlike the wily, manipulative feline hero of Puss in Boots, the Countess D’Aulnoy’s The White Cat Celebrates generosity, ingenuity, and…
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