Meantone Magic: Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
April 10th , 2011 | 8:30PM | @ Music Salon at the Hancock Memorial Museum
S Figueroa St & USC McCarthy Way | Los Angeles, CA 90007 | $20 Suggested Donation, Students - Free
Program
Purcell’s Baroque masterpiece bristles with Technicolor microtonal harmony – when tuned in the original meantone tuning. This chamber performance of the entire 1-hour opera will be preceded by meantone masterpieces of Dowland, William Byrd, Ligeti, & Michaelangelo Rossi on lute & harpsichord.