Jean Suau: Allégorie de la France libérant l'Amérique (1784).

Locating Empire: Seduction, Domination, and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach
Concert Programme

Martin Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
6:00pm
Admission: Free

La Musique de la Reine

Sopranos: Brooke Bryant and Brett Umlauf
Baroque Violin: Chern Hwei Fung
Basse de Viole: Virginia Kaycoff
Harpsichord: Desmond Hosford

Antienne à la Vierge                                                        Marc-Antoine Charpentier
for sopranos and continuo                                             (1643-1704)

Allemande « La Rare »                                           Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
for solo harpsichord                                                      (1601-1672)


Salve Regina                                                                    Nicolas Lebègue
Pange lingua Domine                                                      (1631-1702)
salvum fac regem
for sopranos and continuo

                                                   INTERMISSION

La mort de Didon                                                   Michel Pignolet de Monteclair                
cantata for soprano, violin and continuo                         (bapt. 1667-1737)

Les Indes galantes (selections)                               Jean-Philippe Rameau
     I. Ouverture                                                                (1638-1764)
     II. Air pour les Incas de Perou
     III. Air pour les Esclaves africains
          for violin and continuo
     IV. Les Sauvages
          for solo harpsichord
     V. Duo des Sauvages en rondeau avec le choeur
          for sopranos, violin and continuo