“It’s a joy to watch conductor Stubbs and his players”

“An evening with Stephen Stubbs and the terrific performers of Pacific MusicWorks always gives you more than you could have expected or hoped for. This imaginative program - 'Roman Holiday: Young Handel's Italian Adventures' - not only gave the audience a wonderful evening of music, but it educated the listener in Handel's early influences, his germinating ideas, the influence of the Roman Arcadian Academy on the development of baroque opera and oratorio, and, as always, a visual education on how baroque music looks as well as sounds….

“It’s a joy to watch conductor Stubbs and his players - including the incomparable pair of violinists Tekla Cunningham and Ingrid Matthews - as they entwine, chase, and unfold their musical voices in the beautifully structured world of Handel and Corelli. It's like watching choreography as one player after another constructs the waves of form that build up like filigree and then undo themselves like waves crashing on a beach. They even sway back and forth like sea creatures in waves of music.”