In this program, the Raritan Players, led by Rebecca Cypess, explore music in private circles in 18th-century Philadelphia--especially in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, hostess of the first literary salon in America.
Alessandra Ciucci presents her current project where she posits that in order to understand the effectiveness of the songs of Nass el Ghiwane it is critical to examine their musicopoetic assemblage with its rich web of citations and intertextual references, and to acknowledge the force of the band’s sound that Moroccans heard as “revolutionary” (thəuri) and with a “protest tone” (nəbraḥtjajiya).
Watch electronic performances with artists AGF (Philly-debut) + SUE-C / Grace Villamil / Ella Heron / Eli Neiman-Hammond at PAGEANT : SOLOVEEV, a contemporary art performance space.
Musicologists Rebecca Cypess (Rutgers University) and Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), together with mezzosoprano Meg Bragle (Penn) and 2023-24 fellows of the Herbert D. Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, discuss the life, music, and contexts of Salamone Rossi, a Jewish composer working in Italy at the same time as Claudio Monteverdi. Register HERE