[NEohioPAL] Baroque Concert: Famed and Forgotten Female Composers

[Malina Rauschenfels via NEohioPAL]

Saturday 7pm, 2016
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
2555 Euclid Heights Blvd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106

$10-20 suggested donation

Malina Rauschenfels and Josefien Stoppelenburg, sopranos
Phillip W. Serna, viola da gamba
Paula Maust, harpsichord

Burning River Baroque presents –
Twisted Fate: Famed and Forgotten Female Composers

The history of western art music predominantly focuses on the lives and
works of male teachers, composers, and performers. In eras when women
rarely had access to the same educational and professional opportunities as
their male colleagues, it can be easy to presume that women were simply not
as productive and successful in the field. A closer look at history,
however, reveals that some women in the past were able to rise above the
gender restrictions placed on them and achieved great success as
professional musicians. Others led more private professional lives
cloistered in abbeys and composing for their fellow sisters. Burning River
Baroque will present a program that blends works of both the famous and
forgotten female composers from antiquity to the present, including
Hildegard von Bingen, Jacquet de la Guerre, Princess Anna Amalia, Chiara
Margarita Cozzolani, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Martha Bishop.
“Twisted Fate: Famed and Forgotten Female Composers” will explore the ways
in which historical circumstances twisted the lives of some women into the
spotlight and others into the shadows as well as their diverse portrayals
of female characters.

Burning River Baroque
Founded in Cleveland in 2012, Burning River Baroque takes its name from the
famous incident in which the badly polluted Cuyahoga River caught on fire.
This name not only connotes the fiery passion which the ensemble brings to
its performances, but also reflects the practice of tying history and
social change to music and current issues in a way that feels fresh and
relevant to contemporary audiences. While Baroque performance practice
informs the group's presentation of historical works, they have evolved its
presentation to encourage a participatory concert atmosphere, breaking the
fourth wall and involving audiences in the drama that is occurring onstage.

Burning River Baroque seeks to throw open the doors of the concert hall to
audience members that may never have considered that classical music had
something to offer them or could reflect their life experience and
concerns. Classical music can be perceived as elitist or stuffy; Burning
River Baroque shows that it can be the opposite. It is our mission to
create concerts that appeal to all types of audiences. Burning River
Baroque has performed in NYC, Boston, Berkeley, California, Canada, and
extensively in Ohio. The Boston Musical Intelligencer described them as a
group that “...left an indelible imprint on my psyche.” Co-directors Malina
Rauschenfels and Paula Maust manage the group and hire outside artists as
necessary for a diverse array of programs each concert season.

"Burning River Baroque left an indelible imprint on my psyche."
-The Boston Musical Intelligencer-

http://www.burning-river-baroque.org/
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