Youth orchestra at Valletta Baroque Festival

The Valletta Baroque Festival will tomorrow present an orchestral concert by the youth orchestra Jeune Orchestre Atlantique. This international orchestra of young professional musicians will present a programme of music by Maltese composers, as well as works from the Bach legacy at the Manoel Theatre The programme will include the overture and duet ‘Padre, addio’ from the opera ‘Pelopide’ (1747) by Girolamo Abos. Scans of the original manuscript are made available online by the International Music Library Score Project from Canada. Frederick Aquilina took on the task to edit the music so that both orchestra and singers can perform this work. The other revival works on the programme are the two arias from the ‘Dixit Dominus’ of 1756 by Benigno Zerafa. These arias have been edited by M.Mus. student Christine Gauci under the supervision of Frederick Aquilina (University of Malta). JOA will also perform the Sinfonia in D by Francesco Azopardi thanks to the contribution of editor Bertil van Boer, Aurora Press 2011. The concert by JOA in Malta is also part of an EU Culture Programme entitled EUR TEXT. Maltese cultural organisations, ‘Soundscapes’ and the ‘Malta Association for...