This concert combines the “cycles” inherent in baroque music, including Vivaldi’s most famous cycle of all, with the wonderful world of shadow puppetry. The first half of this concert features music from Italy, Scotland and Germany. The second half features the newest production to come from the wellspring of Puppets & Shadows Theatre. “Widget” is a lonely robot in a concrete world. When he discovers a dear friend in Flower, desperately trying to poke its way out of the asphalt, Widget embarks on a four seasons adventure to protect Flower’s safety, while battling Sky Bee and the rain and snow elements Mother Nature has in store. Teaming up with SPT is the INNERchamber Ensemble on period instruments for excerpts from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Julie Baumgartel + Andrew Chung, baroque violin

Margaret Jordan-Gay, baroque cello

Borys Medicky, harpsichord

Terry McKenna, baroque guitar

Puppets & Shadows Theatre:  Arlene Thomas + Nike Abbot

Aria amoroso by Nicola Matteis

A sonata of Scots tunes by James Oswald

Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, TWV 40:108 by Georg Philipp Telemann

Capriccio detto il Marescotti a due Violini, in Ecco (op. 50) by Maurizio Cazzati

“Widget”, with excerpts from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

Children’s Series Presented By:

The Ojala Family

Supported By:

Megan Holliday Memorial Fund, a fund within London Community Foundation