...or How music & storytelling have fought pandemics in Europe...
Europe has experienced many pandemics in the past. The plague, also called “Black Death”, is the most famous cause. Fortunately, this disease has been virtually eliminated thanks to improved hygiene, but new diseases have emerged such as cholera, the Spanish flu and now Covid-19. Music has played a major role in making fear and uncertainty more bearable and that music is capable of this even today, as Accademia Amsterdam proves with this performance.
Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643—1704) leads the listeners through sadness and despair to sheer joy.
Accademia Amsterdam uses quotes from the “Decamerone” by the 14th-century Italian Giovanni Boccaccio.
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