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UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: “Italian Journey”

Christian Baldini, director and conductor Program Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy with Wendy Richman, viola Harold in Italy was brought about by a commission by the famous 19th century violinist Nicolo Paganini in 1834. Berlioz was commissioned by Paganini not for a violin concerto but for a work that would feature Paganini and his new

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Blue Heron Ensemble

Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci with Italian recitations by Viola Ardeni, lecturer in Italian at UC Davis Pre-concert talk by Jessie Ann Owens 6:15–6:45 pm About the Program Blue Heron brings mid-sixteenth-century Italian madrigals for five voices by the Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore, setting lyric poems by Petrarch and others. The poems

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