Go back to the 1600s with this Tucson summer series concert
The first concert in a summer series mines the beauty of Bach and Handel alongside a violin sonata by a 17th century French composer whose name many might not recognize. Tuculio Lobo, a longtime member of Tucson's Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra, has hosted a summer series concert in which she will perform Baroque music from the 1600s. This marks Lobo's second time performing on the summer series; she sang the role of Dido in the concert version of Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" in 2013. The program includes works by Bach, Handel, Francois Couperin, Purcell, and Monteverdi, and more. Lobo has been championing Baroques throughout her career and has been introduced to works by the composer Bach when she was studying piano in middle school.
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"There is some really amazing Baroque pieces, some of which people know very well, but there is something special about Baroque music," said Lobo, a longtime member of Tucson's Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra.
"I had kind of been looking for places to use it," she said during a phone call from her Florida home last week.
“We haven’t done tons of vocal music over the years, but when we have it’s been pretty special,” he said when he announced the series earlier this spring.
This is Lobo's second time on the summer series; she sang the role of Dido when the series presented the concert version of Purcell's Baroque opera "Dido and Aeneas" in 2013.
Lobo has been championing Baroque and early music throughout her career after being introduced to works by Bach when she was studying piano in middle school.
Baroque music, she said, "can be very catchy. It was composed at the time of the Enlightenment. There was this expansion of knowledge and art and music. A lot of it was meant to be entertaining but also thought-provoking."
Her program includes a mix of vocal and instrumental works including Bach's "Ich will doch wohl Rosen brechen" for mezzo, violin, harpsichord and cello; Handel's "Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect Me" from "The Triumph of Time and Truth" for soprano, violin, harpsichord and cello; Francois Couperin's harpsichord piece "Les barricade mysterieuse;" Purcell's "O Let Me Weep" from "The Fairy Queen" for soprano, violin, harpsichord and cello; and Monteverdi's "Zefiro torna e di soave accenti" for soprano, mezzo, harpsichord and cello.
"I think her music is amazing. I heard this sonata and I was just wowed by it," Lobo said, adding that initially they had planned just to do one movement from the piece, but after listening to it, decided it was too good not to do in full.
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