Philadelphia Singers/Tempesta di Mare

Sat., Jan. 31, 8 p.m., and Sun., Feb. 1, 3 p.m., $20-$40, Old St. Joseph's, 321 Willings Alley, 215-755-8776, tempestadimare.org.

by Peter Burwasser

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Published: Jan 28, 2009

Classical

Celebrate the new with the old. With Cheerful Hearts sounds an appropriately contemporary note in this time of great hope and promise, although English composer John Blow wrote the music to ring in the new year in 1690. It is the featured work in the first collaboration of these two fine local institutions, in what is being billed as a modern world première. The program jumps ahead a generation to the heart of the baroque era, with two vocal masterpieces, the astonishingly vibrant Magnificat of Vivaldi, and Bach's somberly beautiful cantata Trauer Ode. The Singers take a break for a performance of a Telemann concerto to round out the concert.

Sat., Jan. 31, 8 p.m., and Sun., Feb. 1, 3 p.m., $20-$40, Old St. Joseph's, 321 Willings Alley, 215-755-8776, tempestadimare.org.

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