26 Jan ArtsLIVE Series Returns with Free “Virtual Vanguard” Concerts
The University of Dayton’s ArtsLIVE performance series will feature three virtual concerts this spring, starting with the YouTube Premier of Bewitched, an early music program featuring Les Delices, with soprano Hannah DePriest, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14.
It’s the first ArtsLIVE program to be offered virtually in the program’s 60-year history.
Thanks to an endowment established by the family of Elana and Vincent Bolling, these Virtual Vanguard concerts will be available free online to the public. A link to these programs can be found on the ArtsLIVE website at go.udayton.edu/artslive. No registration is required.
Scheduled for 3 p.m. Sundays, the Virtual Vanguard concerts run about one hour and will be followed by a live question-and-answer session with the musicians. Following the Sunday premieres, each program will remain available on YouTube for just 48 hours.
The romance featured in the Valentine’s Day Bewitched performance is fiery and intense. The program includes works by several 17th century French composers who took their inspiration from the dramatic, classical tales of Circe and Medea, who pursued love and revenge through supernatural means.
More information on the full slate of concerts is available here.