Vivaldi: Pre-concert talk by Prof. Anthony Cummings

Anthony Cummings, the Eugene H. Clapp II '36 and Maud Millicent Clapp Professor of Music at Lafayette College, will give a pre-concert on the music of Antonio Vivaldi at 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 31 in Room 108 of the Williams Center for the Arts.  The talk accompanies the 8:00 p.m. performance that evening by Frances' Jupiter Ensemble, performing rarely heard concerti and arias by the composer, and featuring the young French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Prof. Cummings' talk is free and open to the public.  Tickets to the performance at 8:00 p.m. are free for Lafayette students; $6 youth and other students; $10 Lafayette staff and faculty; and $33 general public, available at the Williams Center for the Arts ticket office, by phone at (610) 330-5009, and online at williamscenter.lafayette.edu