La Spiritata to La Mer

MPRO’s December Concert

MPRO-745951On Sunday, December 11, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, at 2:30 p.m. The program will feature the canzona La Spiritata by Giovanni Gabrieli; three settings of the Renaissance melody Fortuna Desperata; an instrumental arrangement of the popular French song La Mer with Jay Kreuzer, harmonica; a movement from Vivaldi’s Concerto RV 531 with Gregor Dairaghi and Hilary Port soloists; and the suite La Joie by Georg Philipp Telemann. The location of this concert is wheelchair accessible. For further information please see the orchestra’s web page at http://mpro-online.org/ or call Frederic Palmer at 650-591-3648.

The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Written by Jonathan Harris