Shaun Smyth & Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres
Artist: Shaun Smyth & Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Producer: Alison Mackay - Conductor: Jeanne Lamon - Writer: Alison Mackay - Performer: Shaun Smyth - Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach & Antonio Vivaldi - Stage Director: Marshall Pynkoski - Orchestra: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, also known simply as Tafelmusik, is a Toronto-based Canadian baroque orchestra, specialised in early music. The ensemble is directed by violinist Jeanne Lamon. In ‘The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres’ they perform music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel to a backdrop of high-definition images from the Hubble telescope, NASA and Canadian astronomers. Explore the fusion of arts, science and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries in this imaginative concert commemorating Galileo’s first public demonstration of the telescope. Actor Shaun Smyth narrates a compelling script while the musicians weave in and around a magical stage set by Marshal Pynkoski. Created and scripted by Alison Mackay.