Since then, movements from the set have been used in literally hundreds of films, from 1967’s Elvira Madigan to last year’s box-office hits Sing and The Secret Life of Pets, and in television series as diverse as The Sopranos, American Horror Story, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Simpsons-not to mention countless TV commercials. And The Four Seasons themselves didn’t become really popular until violinist Louis Kaufmann performed them on a CBS Radio broadcast in 1950. It wasn’t always that way like most music composed before 1750, Vivaldi’s works were virtually forgotten until the chance discovery of his personal collection of his manuscripts in 1926 awakened scholarly interest. Probably the only works that might come close in a popular vote would be Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos and Handel’s Water Music, but Vivaldi’s Four Seasons have entered the collective consciousness as few musical works ever have. If a beauty pageant was held for the orchestral works of the Baroque period, odds are the hands-down winner would be Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the set of four violin concertos that the Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire will perform in the Martin Theatre on July 27, replete with the period flavor of their 1725 publishing.
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