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This program from Pamela Dellal and Vivian Montgomery celebrates our need for levity, centering women’s perspectives through the overlapping humor and playfulness of three friends and colleagues. Four 18th-century ladies bicker over bridge in Caldara’s Il Guoco del Quadriglio (The Card Game); PDQ Bach’s Iphigenia in Brooklyn lampoons the dramatic cantata; a multi-media world premiere by John Morrison plays with the theatrics of a woman entering a (male-dominated) backgammon match; and Kevin Lubin’s nine-minute klezmer-infused opera intimately portrays Three Jewish Women Playing Mah Jongg.

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Pamela Dellal and Vivian Montgomery | Games and Jokes to Counter Existential Angst

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Students from the Early Music Repertoire course perform a selection of works from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, studied during the semester. The course is taught by Pamela Dellal, with accompaniment by Yukiko Oba.

Music for a While: Early Music Repertoire for Singers

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

We begin with humor! These charming pieces are surprisingly witty, almost parodies of the ultra-serious chamber cantata form. The various naughty and misbehaving protagonists in our stories feel remarkably contemporary, revealing that what seems new has been around for centuries.

Pamela Dellal

Mezzo-soprano

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Feb 25, 2024

Pamela Dellal and Vivian Montgomery | Games and Jokes to Counter Existential Angst · Longy School of Music of Bard College

Dec 8, 2023

Music for a While: Early Music Repertoire for Singers · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

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