Early Music Missouri brings a Women's History Month recital program to the Kemper that features songs and sonatas by women composers and composer/performers from 17th-century Italy. The program will include secular music composed for a private academy in Venice and the Medici court in Florence as well devotional works for convents in Milan and Novara. The program offers music by the composer/performers Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi as well as the nuns Isabella Leonarda and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
