Passing the Torch
Celebrate our Artistic Directors’ Final Season
In Person & Online!
- Properly-fitted masks are required for in-person attendance at this time.
- More COVID protocols at piffaro.org/safety.
Join us in a celebration of tradition and change as our new artistic director, Priscilla Herreid, presents her first season. We open, appropriately enough, by Passing the Torch with a program that explores moments of musical transition. Then we will pass the cold nights of winter in Italian style, gathering for a Festa di Natale! In March, Music from Austrian Court & Countryside will finally resound after a long delay due to COVID. The season will come to a close Entre dos Álamos,”between two aspens” and between Spanish and indigenous South American cultures.
Each concert will be premiered live in Philadelphia & Wilmington, observing the most current COVID safety protocols. A video version of the same program will be available for viewing online.
Season subscribers are invited to participate in Subscriber Talks with special guests on Zoom before each concert and will receive periodic treats in their inboxes throughout the year!
In-person sales will be available at the door.
Passing the Torch
In person September 30 – October 2, 2022
Online October 8-18
Festa di Natale!
In person December 9-11, 2022
Online December 17-27
Celebrate the season in the style of Renaissance Italy
Gather around an olive branch burning on the family hearth on Christmas Eve, experience the awe of the Magnum Mysterium on Christmas Day, thrill to the hunt for boar and dance the twelve days away until Epiphany!
In-person sales will be available at the door.
Music from Austrian Court & Countryside
In person March 24-26, 2022
Online April 1-11
with Matthew Glandorf, organ
Austrian cities and towns resounded with music in the 16th century: from little known masters of forms sacred and secular to the famed Heinrich Isaac, and preeminent composers of the illustrious court of Archduke Ferdinand II. As a special treat, Matthew Glandorf rekindles the spirit of celebrated organist and improviser Paul Hofhaimer.
In-person sales will be available at the door.
Entre dos Álamos
In person May 19-21, 2022
Online May 27- June 6
The indigenous musicians of South America quickly adopted and mastered the new instruments and forms brought by Catholic colonists in the 16th century. Incorporating shawms, dulcians, and sackbuts into their own musical culture, they became proficient performers and composers in the European polyphonic style. Over the next two centuries, this musical cross-pollination produced a body of work unsurpassed in its magnificence.
Support for these concerts has been provided by The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation.
In-person sales will be available at the door.
VENUES
All locations are handicap accessible. Call 215-235-8469 to arrange accommodations.
Fridays in Philadelphia
All concerts at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, 23 South 38th Street, Philadelphia
Concerts begin at 7:30 Eastern
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Saturdays in Chestnut Hill
All concerts at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
Concerts begin at 7:30 Eastern
Free parking behind church and in neighborhood
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Sundays in Wilmington
Concerts begin at 3:00 Eastern
Oct 10: Sts Andrew & Matthew, 719 North Shipley Street, Wilmington
Free parking at street meters, nearby lots
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Dec 12, March 13, May 15: Christ Church Christiana Hundred, 505 Buck Road, Wilmington
Free parking at church
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