By Particular Desire

BY PARTICULAR DESIRE:

Music and Madness in Colonial Philadelphia

Sunday, May 2nd at 3pm

Gloria Dei, Old Swedes' Church • 916 S Swanson St, Philadelphia PA 19147

Tickets: $30 general, $15 student with ID 

In 1771 Francis Hopkinson wrote to his friend John Penn about the sad state of music in Philadelphia, announcing “poor Signor Gualdo lies in chains in one of the cells of the Pennsylvania Hospital.” Giovanni Gualdo - accomplished Italian composer, performer, concert organizer, and wine merchant- had succumbed to madness! Join The Publick Pleasure as we perform repertoire from Gualdo’s concerts of the 1760’s, hear music composed by him, and learn the story of his tribulations and demise in the hard-scrabble world of colonial Philadelphia.