CSEM Presents Baroque Connections: Friends and Rivals with New England Baroque

The Cambridge Society for Early Music presents the acclaimed players of New England Baroque for an afternoon of Baroque music, featuring the music of Handel, Telemann, and more!

New England Baroque— a period ensemble of some of Boston’s most dynamic players— brings to life the music of a circle of baroque composers living in or strongly influenced by the booming musical culture of 17th-century Venice in Friends and Rivals. This program explores these composers’ influences and relationships through their music, especially highlighting the fond long-distance friendship between George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, and the competitive rivalry between Handel and Nicola Porpora. Come see Baroque Connections in Cambridge (3/27), Weston (3/28), and Beverly (3/29)!