You know Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons. Everybody knows Spring from The Four Seasons. Even if they don’t think they know Spring, they do. Everybody recognizes that wonderful, lilting opening theme.

We’re looking forward to celebrating Tempesta’s 15th Anniversary with Revival and Rediscovery, at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater on March 11. Part of celebrating an anniversary is looking back at favorite memories along the way, so over the past few weeks, we’ve sent out a series of emails entitled, “Spring Forward, Look Back.” Each one featured a look at a composer or piece on the program, and how that ties into Tempesta’s history. In case you missed any of them, we’ve put them all together here:

Medieval cartographers used to draw dragons and sea monsters into the as-yet unknown regions of their maps. It’s the origin of “here be dragons” (hic sunt dracones). Those are the places where we like to go treasure hunting.