Tufts Music Department Presents Charles Burney’s Musical Tour Oct. 11th

The Tufts University Department of Music presents Charles Burney’s Musical Tour, a concert featuring performers Annette Richards and David Yearsley on the organ and harpsichord, and videos by Bug Davidson and the Hyphen Collective, in the Distler Performance Hall at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 8 p.m.

Dr. Charles Burney was one of the first great music historians. On his musical tours across Europe in the 1770s, he met many of the most famous musical personages of his time. Upon returning to London, he spent many evenings with his daughters and friends at a variety of keyboard instruments, recalling and reliving his adventures. This concert imagines one such evening in the Burney household with music for four hands—played on a combination of harpsichord and chamber organ—by composers ranging from the Roman Bernardo Pasquini to the Spaniard Antonio Soler, from members of the Bach family to Handel and Farinelli, and even the good doctor himself, whose written commentary we will hear in the course of the program.

The concert will include video projections by the new collective Hyphen, a visual commentary of Burney’s travels mapping and reimagining the experience of moving through soundscapes of the past.

The Granoff Music Center is located at 20 Talbot Avenue on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. Admission is free with a Tufts ID (limit two tickets per ID) and is $10 for general admission. For more information, please visit as.tufts.edu/music/musiccenter or call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679.

This concert has been made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.

– Information from Tufts University