Live Music at Herrick District Library

Hello Families,
Live music offers vibrations that are important to our overall well being. At a Kindermusik International Conference a number of years ago the author of one of my favorite books: Smart Moves, spoke to us about the vibrations of live music that escape being digitally recorded. They are very high vibrations that one might argue we don't really "hear". But we do feel them and a certain amount of high vibrations are important to us. Go hear some live music!

And bring the little ones???? Sure! There are so many free concerts in Holland. If you have to leave after the first piece what's lost? Little by little their attention span and interest in concerts grows.

Try sending an email here: arts@hope.edu and ask to be on their mailing list. This is a great resource for the areas music and arts events. It's how I found out about the free concert this Sunday at the Herrick District Library....I'm sure you will see and hear interesting instruments and I'm hoping to hear some recorders and maybe a harpsichord.

Early Music Ensemble Part of Herrick District Library Series Sunday, Feb. 4, 3 p.m.
Grand Valley State University's Early Music Ensemble, with director Pablo Mahave-Veglia, will take the Herrick District Library stage at 3 p.m. Sunday for a free concert. The GVSU Early Music Ensemble uses period instruments or high-quality, modern replicas to perform pre-classical repertoire as originally written . Mahave-Veglia is a familiar artist; he appears with the Holland Symphony Orchestra, in the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck and on the library series with pianist Joan Conway.
Sunday's program draws from music composed between 1638 and 1750, including the Sonata No. 1 in B-flat Major for cello and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi, Sonata prima for trumpet and continuo by Giovanni Bonaventura Viviani, Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 and Vivaldi's Sonata No. 6 in B-flat Major for cello and continuo.

(A hint about these library concerts: they tend to fill up so if you get there early you would be sure to have a seat.)
See you there!
Yvette