#TheFairyQueen will be broadcast from the Utrecht Early Music Festival @WQXR at 1 p.m. EDT with William Christie leading Les Arts Florissants in #HenryPurcell's brilliant #opera — a #Baroque musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream":

www.wqxr.org/story/henry-...

🎶#OTD in #Music #History 22 November 1683, #HenryPurcell’s “Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339” had its first performance in London. Commissioned by "The Musical Society", #Purcell wrote it in honour of #SaintCecilia, the patron saint of music.

▶️ youtu.be/EFE9UpRaGkM?si…

🎶#OTD in #Music #History 22 November 1683, #HenryPurcell’s “Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339” had its first performance in London. Commissioned by "The Musical Society," #Purcell wrote it in honour of #SaintCecilia, the patron saint of music.

▶️ youtu.be/EFE9UpRaGkM?si…

SOMMARMUSIK, at #RosedalePresbyterianChurch TORONTO special music by soloists dir #ChristopherDawes continues thru Aug w progressive (a bit every Sunday) perf of #HenryPurcell's Ode: Hail Bright Cecilia. Sunday 10:30am
www.rosedalepresbyterianchurch.ca/hailbrightce...
portrait by JohnClosterman

#AlfredDeller was born #OnThisDay in 1912, one of the leading figures in re-establishing the #countertenor in performances of Renaissance & Baroque #music; this is a hauntingly beautiful recording #HenryPurcell's "Music for a While":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOX...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...