Baroque violinist Robert Mealy, professor of early music at the Yale School of Music and the Department of Music, will lead the students of his historical performance practice class in an orchestral program of festive concerti grossi by Handel, Bach, and Vivaldi, including excerpts from Handel's Water Music on May 3, 2009. This concert is the culmination of a semester of intensive study of historically-informed performance practice, using Yale's own set of baroque bows and a pair of valveless natural horns to bring the dancing rhythms of this music to life.
