The Ama Deus Ensemble, led by Valentin Radu, will present a Baroque style performance entitled Festa Vivaldi on Sunday, September 30 at 6 PM, at Daylesford Abbey (220 S.Valley Rd., Paoli, PA). The program features Antonio's "Autumn" from the best known The Four Seasons and the heavenly Magnificat in g minor in its original version. This concert begins the Ama Deus Ensemble season and marks the opening of the Daylesford Abbey Sunday series, the first of the four concerts planned at the Abbey in the '07-'08.  See you there!

"The news from Vox Ama Deus is not just good - it's downright encouraging," writes Michael Caruso in the feature article entitled Reaching Out, "At a time when many local classical music organizations are stuck in the doldrums or actually retrenching, the Main Line ensemble, which specializes in choral concerts and performances on period instruments, has announced the creation of a new group that will be making its home on the campus of Bryn Mawr College."  Continue reading...

                                            

You are attending a classical music concert.  A multi-movement piece is being performed.  At the end of one of the movements,  the music reaches such an emotional culmination that you naturally burst into applause. After a few lonesome claps your hands freeze in the air - nobody around joins in. In fact, a couple of respectable looking folks give you a look of condemnation for clapping at the "wrong" time. You are embarrassed for the rest of the evening for not following the unwritten classical concert code that everyone else seems to have down.  Right?... Wrong! 

 

 

Applauding the relaxing of rules of clapping in classical concerts*

2. Chose ANY FOUR concerts.