New Vintage Baroque, a period-instrument ensemble from New York, and Damask Ensemble, a vocal quartet from The Hague, Netherlands, recently completed a successful IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign for an exciting project.
Just how successful?
Well, these two groups raised $20,235 in donations, supported by some 300 individual donors.
It was an important initiative.
Together, NVB and DE were able to commission Gregory Spears to write Virginiana, a 25-minute cantata for H.I.P. ensemble and voices set to the love poetry (and a bit of prose) of one Robert Bolling, Jr.
Composed, in part, during Spears' residency at Colonial Williamsburg's Rockefeller Library, the music incorporates three short melodies transcribed from Bolling’s journals.
The collaboration between NVB and DE begins in the Netherlands on Feb. 20 and will travel to New York on Feb. 26.
”Fated Lovers” will move through multiple Manhattan venues until March 1.
Click here to find out more information about performance locations and, of course, to purchase your tickets.
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