“Dresden Fireworks” by Repast Baroque Ensemble this Friday

By on February 24, 2018 4:27 pm in 11201, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Music

This Friday evening, March 2 at 8:00 the Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), to perform a concert of “Dresden Fireworks.” On the program are works by WF Bach, Fasch, Veracini, Vivaldi (image; shown holding an 18th century predecessor to the iPad), and Zelenka. In addition to the group’s regular musicians, the concert will feature Geoffrey Burgess, who “is known internationally as a performer of historical oboes.”

There’s more information and you may purchase tickets here.

Vivaldi image: U.S. public domain.

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  • Louis Miller

    Dresden fireworks? Well, let’s start with the 1944-45 British and U.S. bombings under “bomber Harris” One of the worst war crimes of the 20th century bar none. Start qith a program on that….

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    “One of the worst war crimes of the 20th century bar none” Of course it depends on what you considers war crimes.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Mr Miller is correct. The horror of what occured was such a scale that caused wide disquiet in Britian that churchell immediately put distance between the event which he caused. This is the same darling who wanted to bomb Germany with anthrax (!!!)
    The post war studies by the Pentagon attempting to justify the indescrinate fire bombing of civilians in Dresden are on the order of the pentagon and AEC statements justifying what was done with the atomic veterans! No amount of U.S. official pronouncements, NY Times et al major news media or kept commissions by the govt of occupied Germany is going to wash away the landmark crime of what happened at Dresden.

  • Reggie

    The carpet bombing of Cambodia killed ten-times as many people as died in Dresden, just to provide one counter-example.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Crime LOL, Lets not forget Germany solely instigated the war in Europe and bombed London way before Dresden.
    Oh and then there were those death camps…
    Some German civilians got toasted, so what, cry me a river….

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Read some history Arch. At a distance of over sixty years, a little sanity and clearly of recall has emerged. Germany SOLELY started WWII? Ever hear of the phoney war? ENGLAND declared war. And the bombing was always a two way affair. Germany NEVER developed a strategic Bomber or allowed resources to produce air superiority. Germany even though they had the materials and science, never developed the atom bomb.
    Er, Reginald the US effort in SE Asia was against an agressive enemy who followed NO rules while we greatly restricted the fire zones we permitted on our side One more thing Arch, your detestable ”cry me a river’ attitude towards innocent civilian lives shows who is civilized here and who is not

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    LOL, Yeah I know about it, Germany invaded Poland 9/1/39 France and England declare war on the belligerent Germans two days later… The Nazis were working on an fission bomb, though their resources to do so were stretched thin and oh yeah, there was that commando raid that destroyed their heavy water supply, effectively ending any hope of building one, LOL..
    Oh and what about those V1 and V2 missiles that killed thousands of civilians in England?
    And of course you ignored the whole death camp thing, cause thats the real warcrime.
    YOU need the history lesson, and a spanking. LOL

  • Jeffrey Smith

    As I said, the bombing was a two way street. And to view the events of 1935 to 45 and not to first look at the actions of the British foreign office…and the London Banks, is madness. But the lesson of ALL this should NOT be who is the single or primary culprit. The lesson should be that occult forces cause wars and that the entire era was a massive Disaster for Western Civilization from which we have NEVER recovered….

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Again you avoid the real warcrimes perpetrated by the Nazis… but probably best you don’t as I won’t engage in anymore discussion of your crackpot, revisionist history.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    It’s difficult or impossible to examine deeper more profound levels of historical evidence with people who have a lack of depth or complexity of thought.. This is exactly (one of) the limitations in the average human society which allows the often hidden actors in history both financial and occult, to rule by stealth and proxy. Both tragic World Wars in the last century,
    show this to be the case.