PRICE: $35 Reserved; $20 General entrance; $5 Low income
PHONE: 617-461-6973
TIME: 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive contributions of Parisian women composers to the French Baroque and Rococo secular genres of airs sérieux: serious songs with subjects such as love, politics and pastoral scenes, and airs à boire: drinking songs to make merry with libations such as wine.
These song forms celebrate passionate longing and self-indulgent inebriation. The featured composer is Julie Pinel, with several selections from her 1737 publication Nouveau recueil d'airs. Also included is music composed by other little known Parisian women and sonatas and trio sonatas by the celebrated Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.