Damask Ensemble will host New York City-based ensemble New Vintage Baroque to present a program featuring the world premiere of a co-commission by the accomplished American composer Gregory Spears, as well as secular music of Purcell, Böhm, Montéclair, and Handel.
THE PROGRAM
If Music Be the Food of Love
Henry Purcell
Mein Freund ist mein
Georg Böhm
I see, she flies me
Purcell
Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122
George Frideric Handel
INTERMISSION
What a Sad Fate is Mine
Purcell
La Mort de Didon
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Virginiana
Gregory Spears
Following the Netherlands tour of this program, New Vintage Baroque and Damask Ensemble travel to the United States for performances in the New York area.