Concert in the Garden: Intrepid Femininity
Hammond-Harwood House 19 Maryland Ave, Annapolis, MD, United StatesDoors open at 6:15 p.m Cash bar for wine/beer. Members of Hammond-Harwood House Museum receive a free drink. Concert 7:00 p.m to 8:15 p.m Soprano Elissa Edwards and lutenist Richard Kolb present delightful songs on the lighter side by Strozzi and Caccini, framed with lute and theorbo solos by their contemporaries Michelangelo Galilei and Alessandro Piccinini. It’s well known that women in 17th-century Europe were severely hindered in the any endeavor that overstepped the constraints of traditional feminine modesty and subservience. What is less well known is that a substantial...