On Sunday, September 30th at 4:00 p.m., the USF School of Music will feature a faculty/guest recital 

by the Bay Baroque Ensemble, the leading Baroque ensemble in the Tampa Bay area.  Organized by 

long-time USF faculty member Dr. John Robison, the concert will feature USF professor Kathie 

Aagaard (viola), USF adjunct professor Anne Marie Scotto (harpsichord), guest artists Patrick Baran 

and Nicole Wendl (violins) and Theresa Villani (viola da gamba), and guest soprano Maggie 

Coleman; John Robison will perform on several instruments, including Baroque oboe and recorder.  

The faculty/guest event will feature music by some of the finest Baroque composers from the late 

seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, including Johann Sebastian Bach, George Philipp 

Telemann, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Tomaso Albinoni.  Included on the program will be one of 

Albinoni s finest concertos for oboe and strings, Scarlatti s intriguing Sonata in C major for recorder, 

strings and continuo, Telemann s Trio Sonata in A minor for recorder, violin, and continuo, and one of 

Bach s finest sacred cantatas, Cantata no. 199 ( Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut ) for soprano, oboe, 

strings and continuo.  Bach s Cantata no. 199, which is a highly distinctive sacred cantata since it 

focuses only on a solo soprano voice without a choir, attracted the composer s attention for an entire 

decade.  Originally composed in 1714, Bach revised it twice (in 1720 and 1723), and seemed 

particularly attracted to the unusual text of the cantata, which focuses on God s forgiveness of our 

sins.  The Bay Baroque Ensemble, which is the only group in the Tampa Bay area to consistently play 

on replicas of historical instruments at one of the most common Baroque pitches (A = 409), performs 

on replicas of the early eighteenth-century two-keyed oboe, the recorder, viola da gamba, and an 

Italian-style harpsichord.