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Sarah Pillow soprano
Mary Anne Ballard viola da gamba
Ronn McFarlane lute, theorbo (guest artist)
Dava Sobel storyteller (guest artist)
An ensemble based in New York City, Galileo’s Daughters is inspired by the lives and works of Galileo Galilei, his daughter, Maria Celeste, and the musicians and scientists of their time. Their story is told in a multimedia program narrated by author Dava Sobel.
Since their debut concert in September 2001, Galileo’s Daughters has performed throughout the United States at universities, music festivals and special gatherings of the scientific community.
Shaped by a variety of talents in early music, opera, jazz, drama, and scholarship among the four performers, the programs presented by Galileo’s Daughters offer, through music, narration and a stunning video created by Marc Wagnon, an entertaining window onto one of the most exciting periods in the history of western civilization.
Read Galileo's Daughters Milwaukee reviews
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What audience members are saying about Perpetual Motion:
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"In Perpetual Motion, we're taken back to the 17th century, when a new age of science was born. We're treated to an enchanting tapestry of storytelling, renaissance instruments, songs, and images of nature - some iconic, some familiar, some fresh.
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The harmony is so natural, so welcome to our senses, that we are left wondering why all history of science is not choreographed for us in this way."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
* author of "The Pluto Files"
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"I write now to thank you for the program last night. It was remarkable, beautifully conceived and produced. The evening offered the audience a highly literate and moving account of Galileo's remarkable moment in the history of science and human thought and music. It offered me, as someone who works increasingly on projects at the intersections of science and art and poetics, genuine hope for the public as well as scholarly future of such inquiry. I came for that reason but also for Ronn McFarlane's playing. I found much else to delight."
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"Thank you for a remarkable evening last night at the Perpetual Motion performance at Lathrop Hall. The unique combination of legacy instrumentation, voice, narration, languages, and visual imagery was quite powerful and exercised and challenged all corners of ourbrains. We suspect that was your goal."
"It made me feel so peaceful."
"When I go home to Jesus, I hope I'll be able to sing like you."
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