Vermeer's "The Concert"
March 7-8, 2025 in the Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Two performances: Friday March 7 @ 7:30pm;
Saturday March 8 at 3 pm
In cooperation with the Mount Holyoke College Music Department
Sophie Michaux – voice
Douglas Kelley – viola da gamba
Nathaniel Cox – lute and cittern
Andrus Madsen – harpsichord
In 1664 Johannes Vermeer painted a domestic music scene in which a singer is joined by a harpsichordist and a lutenist, with a viola da gamba on the floor and a bandora or a cittern on the table. (The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has never been recovered.) This concert will be a reproduction of the music these musicians might have played, sampling from works widely available in Rotterdam in the 1650s, including then-popular Roman cantatas written for the instruments and voice depicted in the painting.
This program will be performed twice in the Warbeke Room at Mount Holyoke College, an ideal space for this intimate repertoire.
Ticket link: Vermeer's "The Concert"
