At 2 pm on Sunday, November 6th, Arioso, Central Vermont's chamber music ensemble, will perform a concert focusing on the compositions of Carol Wood, which will include some works setting ancient curses to music. The curses in the suite are of two types--(1) ancient curses written in Latin on lead tablets and thrown into the waters sacred to the goddess Sulis Minerva at Bath, or (2) "book curses" from medieval manuscripts, calling down terrible fate on anyone who stole or defaced the book.

Arioso performs music for voice, viola, cello, and piano. The members of Arioso are Elizabeth Reid, violin and viola; Alison Cerutti, piano; and Linda Radtke; alto. The ensemble, called "deeply beautiful…simply a pleasure by Jim Lowe of the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus, was formed in 2008.

Carol Wood is a harpist, composer, and Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at McNeese University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she taught for almost thirty years. She is the author of a critical study of the earliest Welsh poetry and of eleven books of music for harp, voice, and other instruments, including her best-selling Chaucer Songbook. She has given recitals in Paris and across the southern U.S. She is the composer of The Saxtons River Suite, a work for choir, harp, violin, cello, and flute, which was part of MSA's Five Seasons Project.

Tickets are $20 and available in advance at https://www.mainstreetarts.org/arioso-concert.html

Event Info

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