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You know what I meant .Vivaldi, himself?* Hardly ... he died in 1741
[QUOTE Each concerto is made up of three seperate 'movements' and last about 12-15 minutes so it will take about an hour to play the whole 'cycle'. They were written over 300 years ago by a very famous Italian composer Called Antonio Vivaldi. He was a preist who taught music at an all girls school in Venice. He had masses of flowing red hair which earned him the nick-name 'The Red Preist". He wrote hundreds of concertos for various instruments, usually for girls under his supervision at the school. He found a very useful formula for his concertos consisting of 3 movements (fast-slow-fast) and was sometimes accused of not writing 400 different concertos but of writing 1 concerto 400 times.[/QUOTE] What's a movement ?
Did you get a chance to listen to The Four Seasons, or at least some of them? Yes What was your impression? Some were good Was the soloist up to the task? Were they playing on modern instruments? Who was conducting? Who was the soloist? Did you find anything else out about Vivaldi? No Did you find pictures of Venice, Italy on the internet?
I don't guess watching a taped rehearsl or " program " counts ???
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