“Orpheus in chartreuse,” by M. P. Kennedy

“Orpheus in chartreuse,” by M. P. Kennedy

Did Orpheus wear chartreuse? When Aubree Oliverson, wearing a vivid yellow-green dress, performed Antonio Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E Minor (RV 278) in Kontrapunktus’s program “Il Nuovo Orfeo,” she did not evoke a lonely musician wandering through the woods in mourning. What a violinist wears usually means little to a performance, but her dress became a kind of mood made visible. Hers was a Vivaldi of untethered play and sprezzatura. She had …