Trailblazer Antonio Vivaldi thought so. Around 300 years ago when he wrote The Four Seasons he was one of the first people to compose music that was designed to remind listeners of places and ...

Trailblazer: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was one of the very first composers to write programme music – music designed to evoke thoughts of places and things in the world around us.

But Tognetti, the ACO, and Tawadros are hoping that with their “Four Seasons” program that celebrates the Middle Eastern and North African cultural influences found in Vivaldi’s early-18th ...