Rebecca Cypess and others at the Italian Academy
October 26, 2022
A concert of seventeenth-century music by Salamone Rossi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Tarquinio Merula, and other Italian composers.

The evening includes remarks by harpsichordist Rebecca Cypess, author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy, which explores how both musical and scientific instruments served as vehicles of exploration and innovation.

Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord

Dongmyung Ahn, violin

Nina Stern, recorder

Charles Weaver, theorbo