Musical Louisiana: L’Arrivée - Three Firsts in the Vieux Carré, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:30PM

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:30PM

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Musical Louisiana: L’Arrivée - Three Firsts in the Vieux Carré

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St. Louis Cathedral, 615 Pere Antoine Alley
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Pre-Concert Talk: Doors for the talk open at 6 p.m.; talk from 6:30 to 7 p.m. 
Concert: Doors for the concert open at 7 p.m.; performance at 7:30 p.m.

The sixteenth edition of Musical Louisiana: America’s Cultural Heritage will revive three significant bodies of work that arrived and were performed in New Orleans prior to statehood, a celebration of three firsts in the Vieux Carré. This concert will highlight rarely performed selections from materials found within The Historic New Orleans Collection archives: the Ursuline Music Manuscript (1736), Andre Gretry’s Silvain (1770), and Francois Devienne’s Les Visitandines (1792). Conducted by LPO Music Director and Principal Conductor Matthew Kraemer, this program will feature the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in collaboration with two virtuosic chamber ensembles that specialize in early music repertoire: Variant 6 and Filament. Matthew Kraemer will deliver a preconcert talk just prior to the program.

Since 2007 Musical Louisiana: America’s Cultural Heritage has been copresented by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. It was founded by THNOC’s late director of the Williams Research Center, Alfred E. Lemmon, as a free, educational concert for music lovers in New Orleans and throughout the state.

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Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.