'Henry Purcell: If Music Be the Food of Love Pamela Murray, soprano Claire Garabedian, cello Vivian Montgomery, co-director & harpsichord Boundary Issues: A Shindig de Chambre in Partnership with the METCO College Scholarship Fund and Follen Church Social Justice Action Team Sunday, November 5, 2017 3:00 p.m. Follen Church, Lexington Eudaimonia, a Purposeful Period Band (Vivian Montgomery and Julia McKenzie, directors) is a vibrant historical orchestra that uses its musical work to lift up the social and humanitarian work going on around us. Bringing together some of the Boston area’s most creative performers in the period performance field, Eudaimonia seeks to benefit those in profound need in our immediate environs. As an artistic collective, we build upon shared ideals, ignited spirits, and a desire for healthy collaboration. Eudaimonia-music.org Each concert presented by this flexible ensemble is in partnership with, and in support of, an existing Boston-based social service or initiative. Our programs inventively evoke the message or cause of the service organization with which we’re partnering. Boundary Issues is a passionate and unruly St. Cecilia’s celebration featuring Eudaimonia’s versatile female component, pushing the boundaries with the same insistence required of those, like the METCO College Scholarship Fund, who wish to break down the racial and economic barriers that hinder so many in our midst. The word eudaimonia refers to the richest, most expansive form of happiness, defined in ancient philosophy as a sense of well-being associated with a noble purpose or engagement in meaningful activities. Happiness, even that brought about by music, is more than pleasure: it comes out of living in accordance with one’s “daimon” (spirit) – or true Self. www.eudaimonia-music.org'
Tags: Purcell , Hipp , early music , baroque music , English baroque , eudaimonia
See also:
comments