Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bach s
Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bach s masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here.
Delibes’s
Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante. With Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, and Davide Dato. Production from November 2018. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London presents
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3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents
All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of
The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera
Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque
Pulcinella. View here.
6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents
Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber music luminaries play a program of early masterworks: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2, Violin Sonata in A, Op. 30, No. 1, and Piano Trio in G, Op. 1, No. 2. View here. LIVE
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, we continue our month-long look at how the coronavirus pandemic has upended the arts world in ways that might even outlast the pandemic. Today, we re going to hear about the changes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has had to make. It ended its last season abruptly when the pandemic hit in the spring. Then in September, it kicked off its very first online concert season.
RAINER EUDEIKIS: We re performing concerts, but in a very different arrangement, a different formation.
MARTIN: That s Rainer Eudeikis, the orchestra s principal cellist. He says that in order to make social distancing possible onstage, the number of musicians involved in performances has had to be cut by almost two-thirds.
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