Prof. Anthony Cummings to speak on Vivaldi

Anthony Cummings, the Eugene H. Clapp II ’36 and Maud Millicent Clapp Professor of Music at Lafayette College, will give a talk on the music of Antonio Vivaldi at 7 p.m. Fri., March 31 in Room 108 of the Williams Center for the Arts. The talk will be followed by the 8 p.m. performance by Frances’ Jupiter Ensemble, performing rarely heard concerti and arias by the composer, and featuring the young French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Prof. Cummings’ talk is free and open to the public. Tickets to the performance at 8 p.m. are free for Lafayette students; $6 youth and other students; $10 Lafayette staff and faculty; and $33 general public, available at the Williams Center for the Arts ticket office, by phone at 610-330-5009, and online at williamscenter.lafayette.edu.