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Allies & Emigres: French Music and Revolutionary Philadelphia

May 2, 2021 from 5-6:15 p.m.

May 2, 2021 from 5-6:15 p.m.
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This live-streamed event is part of the Tempesta Talks series presented by Tempesta di Mare, The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra.

This image shows The Siege of Yorktown painting. The frame is brown with circular gold symbols. It says “1781” at the top of the frame.

Museum of the American Revolution

While Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were at work 'selling revolutionary America' in France, French musicians like Henri Capron created a thriving concert scene and music publishing businesses in Philadelphia. Eve Miller, cellist at Tempesta di Mare, and Matthew Skic, Curator of Exhibitions at the Museum, team up for a talk about the surprising and delightful musical connections between Philadelphia, France, and Haiti.

This live-streamed Sunday, May 2 event is part of the Tempesta Talks series and relates to the 2020-2021 Season Artist Recital with Adam Pearl, harpsichordist, presented by Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra.

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The Siege of Yorktown

This full-sized copy, believed to have been painted by French artist Henry LeGrand, depicts a dramatic scene commemorating the October 1781 Siege of Yorktown in Virginia.

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Rhonda Brace (left), a descendent of Jeffrey Brace, who was enslaved during the Revolutionary era, found freedom, and wrote a memoir in 1810, which was republished in 2004 by Kari Winter (right).

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