The period-instrument ensemble Boston Baroque will perform the world premiere of the third act of Finnegans Wake: An Operaroar, a work composed by the ensemble’s music director, Martin Pearlman, on its March 29 chamber concert. The concert is part of Boston Baroque’s New Directions series, inaugurated in 2012-13, which mixes music from the Baroque and modern eras and features modern and period instruments. Pearlman’s work is based on the final monologue of the character Anna Livia Plurabelle in the James Joyce novel, and will feature Boston-based actress Paula Plum as narrator; other portions of the piece have previously been performed on Boston Baroque programs. Also on the March 29 program, at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be Handel’s chamber cantata Agrippina condotta a morire, with soprano Julianne Gearhart; and Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, featuring concertmaster Christina Day Martinson.
Posted March 28, 2014
