Our March concert celebrates three towering Baroque composers whose music helped define one of Western music's most expressive and influential eras. Opening and closing the evening are two notable sacred works of the 1600-1750 time period: Antonio Vivaldi's energetic Gloria RV. 589 and George Frideric Handel's exuberant Utrecht Jubilate HWV. 279, with Claudio Monteverdi's concerted madrigal Hor che'l ciel e la terra SV. 147 appears between them as a unique, contrasting centerpiece. Presented with a 16-piece chamber orchestra in the gorgeous acoustic of St. Francis Catholic Church, these masterworks invite audiences into a world of splendor and celebration — where heaven and earth rejoice.