It was not to be. Charles VI died in October 1740 and the once-wealthy Vivaldi, now ill and poverty-stricken, died ignominiously some months later. He was buried in a pauper’s grave near St Stephen’s ...
On Oct. 18, the Australian Chamber Orchestra performed “The Four Seasons and the Ottomans” at the New England Conservatory’s ...
Soloists from the Young Musicians European Orchestra (YMEO), the Orchestra Senzaspine and Orchestra Giovanile Scarlatti of ...
featuring the first U.S. performance of British composer’s David Bruce’s “Lully Loops,” a fusion of digital and acoustic ...
Exploring great composers with songs based on some of their ... where we hear music from Antonio Vivaldi’s 'The Seasons', which becomes the melody for the song 'Seasons change the weather'.
Trailblazer: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was one of the very first composers to write programme music – music designed to evoke thoughts of places and things in the world around us.