Salon/Sanctuary Concerts opens its winter/spring season with "Hebrews and Heretics, Scholars and Lunatics," a festival of four concerts devoted to exiles and outliers who ushered in new eras during their own times.
The first concert in this series, "From Ghetto to Palazzo: The Worlds of Salomone Rossi," will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on January 26, 2014.
This opening event features the music of Italian-Jewish composer Salomone Rossi, a violinist in Monteverdi's orchestra. Rossi (c. 1570-1630) is credited with having invented the trio sonata. In his dual role as court and synagogue composer, Rossi inhabited two worlds at a curious time of both heightened physical segregation and active social interaction between Jews and Christians.
The afternoon will include a screening of the critically acclaimed 2012 Joseph Rochlitz film Hebreo: In Search of Salomone Rossi, a panel discussion and a performance by the Israeli vocal ensemble I Profeti della Quinta.
This Salon/Sanctuary concert is co-produced with The Museum of Jewish Heritage and co-presented by Centro Primo Levi. More information about Salon/Sanctuary's concert series is available at salonsanctuary.org.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
2:30-3:00 p.m.
Trio sonatas of Salomone Rossi performed by violinists Leah Nelson and Lisa Rautenberg, with Daniel Swenberg, theorbo
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Discussion of Salomone Rossi's life and world in Counter-Reformation Italy with renowned Rossi scholar Francesco Spagnolo, PhD of University of California, Berkeley
3:30-3:45 p.m.
Break for refreshments, featuring Italian kosher delicacies
3:45-4:30 p.m.
Film: In Search of Salomone Rossi
4:30-6:00 p.m.
I Profeti della Quinta perform vocal works of Salomone Rossi
