

Not only has she published a book, "Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents," as the fruit of her research, but she was a consultant for a new display on his life called "Viva Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Mystery." White, who left a thriving greeting card company in England and moved to Venice to pursue an increasing interest in researching Vivaldi's life, has become an expert and point of reference on the musician. In listening to Vivaldi, it's obvious that he was a very faith-filled man, she said, "you hear it in his music, you listen to it."

Bach wasn't a priest, Mozart wasn't a priest, nor was Beethoven, but Vivaldi was. "That's what makes him stand out among anybody. "It's timely, a priest wrote it," and it's meshed with the modern style of the day – a combination of two things that are essentially "polls apart," she said. Jimi Hendrix Vivaldi you've heard in the Four Seasons it's the most bizarre piece of music." "Vivaldi the priest, deeply spiritual, comes out in his music. It's a combination altogether "bizarre," she said.
