TENET Vocal Artists: Broken Hopes:  Select Songs and Duets by Claudio Monteverdi

MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
7:00 PM

TENET T()Night Stream

Pay what you wish-$60
https://secure.givelively.org/event/tenet-nyc-inc/broken-hopes

I remember reading some high-culture prig in the Times around 1969 asking why he should bother to follow his colleagues' insistent advice that he get to know the music of Miles and Aretha when there was even just one Monteverdi madrigal he hadn't heard yet.  If narrow-minded cultural bigots want to deprive themselves of unimaginably great music on so-called principle, fine — it's their immeasurable loss.  But it would be an equally immeasurable loss to know the music of Miles and Aretha but not the fabulous dramatic beauty that inheres in Monteverdi's vocal music.  Tonight TENET presents songs and duets (NOT, to be clear, madrigals) by that great and historically critical Renaissance-into-Baroque master.  (PS to that Times high-culture prig, if he's still alive to read it:  Lamento della Ninfa and "Chain of Fools" go great together.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Venetian Spritz:  pour 3 oz. Prosecco and 1-1/2 oz. each Aperol and soda water into a tumbler over ice.  Stir gently.  Garnish with a green olive.