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Aston Magna Celebrates Forty Years Of Making Beautiful Baroque Music

Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:51am
The Music Scene
By
Fred Baumgarten

The street banners are out, the celebration begins. Aston Magna turns 40 this year.

The birthday party for this esteemed Berkshire-based Baroque music festival kicks off this weekend with a gala concert in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA.

The program includes the madrigals “Chiome d’oro,” “Hor che’l ciel,” “Lamento della ninfa,” and “Laetuatus Sum” by Claudio Monteverdi; Act III of Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas”;

highlights from George Frederick Handel’s oratorio “The Triumph of Time and Truth”; and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

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