A Midnight Delight

A Lark Camp special event.
Tuesday night at midnight
in the Camp One dance hall.
All instruments welcome.
Baroque
encouraged!

The Lark Camp Baroque Orchestra
(everyone at Camp that wants to come join in)
will perform The Four Seasons (at least some of them)
Conductor & Mistress Of Ceremonies Myra Joy.

You can download music for the various parts here

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 - July 28, 1741) ll Prete Rosso (The Red Priest), was a baroque composer and Venetian priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work and a highly popular baroque piece.

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. For example, "Winter" is peppered with silvery staccato notes from the high strings, calling to mind icy rain, whereas "Summer" evokes a thunderstorm in its final movement, which is why said movement is often dubbed 'Storm'. The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve concerti, Vivaldi's Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest between Harmony and Invention).

The first four concertos were designated Le quattro stagioni, each being named after a season. Each one is in three movements, with a slow movement between two faster ones. At the time of writing The Four Seasons, the modern solo form of the concerto had not yet been defined (typically a solo instrument and accompanying orchestra).Vivaldi's original arrangement for solo violin with string quartet and basso continuo helped to define the form.

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