Baroque Music, Holiday Crafts & a Good Cause!
Two mini-concerts: Saturday, December 5th, at 2 PM and also at 3 PM
Meeting Hall at the Cambridge Friends School
5 Cadbury Rd, Cambridge, MA 02140
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As part of the Cambridge Friends School's 1st Annual Art & Artisans Fair, La Donna Musicale presents two 30-minute interactive presentations of light-hearted music by Italian and French Baroque women, along with explanations of period instruments and composers. Music by Barbara Strozzi, Anna Bon, and Julie Pinel.

Cambridge Friends School's gymnasium will be packed with dazzling handmade treasures sold by the artists who made them! It's a wonderful opportunity to find unique gifts for those on your holiday shopping list while also supporting the school. This exciting new fundraising event will be held on Friday December 4 (3:30 - 7 PM) and Saturday December 5 (12 - 5 PM).
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Performers:
Sarah Bellott, soprano
Daniela Tošić, mezzo-soprano
Na'am Lion, flute
Ruth McKay, harpsichord
Janet Haas, viola da gamba
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba, director

Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study, 10th Anniversary
Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 PM
www.radcliffe.edu/about/10th.aspx

Love & Death in Venice:
Venetian Women Composers of the 17th and 18th Century
Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, this award-winning ensemble, led by 2009 Radcliffe Institute Fellow Laury Gutiérrez, brings to life music by women composers nearly forgotten by history, vibrant works that have either been long overlooked or only recently uncovered. Passionate arias, moving laments, and delightful instrumental music by Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, and Anna Bon.

Thursday, October 22, 8:00 PM
Carlisle Congregational Church
147 School Street, Carlisle, MA 01741
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Friday, October 23, 8:00 PM
Congregational Church of Weston
130 Newton Street, Weston, MA 02493
note:the info on the CSEM website is slightly inaccurate.
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Saturday, October 24, 8:00 PM
Salem Athenaeum
337 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Sunday, October 25, 4:00 PM
Ascension Memorial Church
31 County Street, Ipswich, MA 01938
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Monday, October 26, 7:30 PM
Christ Church Cambridge
Zero Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Performers:
Teresa Wakim, Zachary Wilder, and Jason Steigerwalt, voices
Laura Gulley, Lisa Brooke, violins
Ruth McKay, organ
Noriko Yasuda, harpsichord
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba, director

www.csem.org/index.html