Welcome to Seraphic Fire’s 2024-2025 Season: Music History 101! True to our mission to present historically significant and underperformed works, you are sure to expand your musical horizons this season as you encounter rare choral gems.
Lecture: Rebecca Cypess on Classical-Martines, Mozart & Haydn
Rebecca Cypess is The Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University. A musicologist and historical keyboardist, Cypess is the author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016) and Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022); co-editor of five books including Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (2018) and Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives (2022); and author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Her work has been recognized with the Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance and the Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding collection of essays, both from the American Musicological Society.
