The Buffalo Chamber Players Perform "Acis and Galatea" at Babeville

It's Just Like "Titanic" With Handel Instead of Celine Dion

François Perrier - Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus (1645-1650) , Louvre.

To be certain, most of us who attended the Buffalo Chamber Players’ Saturday, June 18th performance of Acis and Galatea at Asbury Hall were (like me) lovers of early music. Its theme of man’s role in the natural world, however, is urgent in the age of climate change.

Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a genre of art, like minimalism, surrealism, or (currently) post-modernism. In fact, a short trip on Delaware Avenue to the newly reopened AKG Museum would reveal that within its clear, post-modernist elements sits a brand-new “great lawn,” a clear pastoralist feature. Indeed, Handel himself would doubtless regard the great lawn as an ideal setting for Acis and Galatea.