Dear friends,
We did it! We were able to reach our goal and our matching grant will be effective in 2024. We are grateful to all of you!

And now we are getting ready for our Spring concerts -

More and More Morenas, in April,

and our French Baroque program Love and Libations in May!

See below for more information and get your tickets today!

Cheers for 2024!

Church of the Covenant

Friday, April 12 at 7 PM

67 Newbury St., Boston, MA

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Saturday, April 13 at 4 PM

1 Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain, MA

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Sunday, April 14 at 4 PM

705 Hale St., Beverly, MA

After the astounding success of the program of Nigra sum during the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue exploring the repertory that praises “dark-skinned” women in songs and polyphonic settings that highlight them in the Ibero-American repertory. Director Laury Gutiérrez leads us on a musical voyage from the Iberian Renaissance to African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America. The program features settings of Nigra sum sed formosa from the Song of Songs and other selections from Spanish songbooks (Cancioneros) with endearing depictions of Morenas, interspersed with dances. Selections include music by Manuel Machado and Juan Vásquez, as well as the Italian Tarquinio Merula.

Tickets: $35 Reserved; $20 General entrance; $5 Low income
For more information call us at 617-461-6973 or write to ladonna@ldm.org

Get your tickets now!

Friday, May 10 at 7 PM

Church of the Covenant

67 Newbury St., Boston, MA

Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 PM

Monadnock Center

19 Grove St., Peterborough, NH

La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive secular contributions of women composers from Paris to the French Baroque and Rococo genres of airs sérieux and airs à boire (serious and drinking songs). These song forms celebrate passionate longing and dissolute intoxication. Of Julie Pinel (fl. 1737), our featured composer, we include several selections from her 1737 publication Nouveau recueil d’airs. Music composed by unknown Parisian women and by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre is included as well. This program highlights the luxuriant environment of an intimate Parisian salon, replete with the sounds of voices in solo, duo, and trio settings, along with flute accompaniment and supported by the captivating tones of the harpsichord and viola da gamba.

Performers
Adriana Ruiz, soprano
Daniela Tosic, mezzo-soprano
Fausto Miro, tenor
Na’ama Lion, flute
Julia Connor, violin
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba

Tickets: $35 Reserved; $20 General entrance; $5 Low income
For more information call us at 617-461-6973 or write to ladonna@ldm.org

Get your tickets now!

Back Bay Garage

You may park at Back Bay Garage for a discount rate of $10.
Please request a validation ticket at the entrance table before our event that you will have to present with your garage ticket when you leave the garage in order to get the discount.

GPS Address to Garage Entrances

113 St James Ave., Boston, MA 02116 OR
199 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02116