Concerts

East Central College presents an afternoon recital by Early Music Missouri on September 29 in the College's Performing Arts Center. This program of French Baroque Chamber Music features the violin/theorbo duo Musicke’s Cordes joined by gambist Sarah Biber.  The concert includes French sonatas, dances and character pieces and features composers Marin Marais, Antoine Forqueray, Jean-Féry …

East Central College presents Early Music Missouri’s “Un tas de cordes: Chamber Music from the French Court” Read More »

FIDDLING WITH STEF AND SARAH will feature Stephanie Noori & Sarah Lynn in early-music-inspired Texas & Scottish fiddling. They will be accompanied by Mountainside Artistic Directors Ryan Mullaney and Lyle Nordstrom. There is limited seating; reservations are recommended.

Both Scotland and England were blessed with a plethora of folk tunes that found their way into compositions that expressed in a variety of moods. Among them were the Scottish composer James Oswald who collected and printed 12 volumes of Scottish tunes, but new trios dedicated to the 4 seasons.  The Scots imitated the English variation …

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Robert Mealy Director and Violin The virtuoso students of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program return to MB1800 to celebrate the orchestral imagination of the operatic revolutionary Jean-Philippe Rameau. Drawn from his operas Castor et Pollux (Paris, 1737) and Dardanus (1739), this sumptuous program highlights Rameau’s breathtaking sonorities, his propulsive and kinetic dance movements, and his heartbreaking …

Music Before 1800 presents: Juilliard 415 Read More »

Few works evoke the dramatic intensity and impact of Bach’s Johannes-Passion, highlighting the extremes of human emotion and experience. Bach reveals his profound spirituality through powerful musical depictions of the passion drama, offering the listener some of the greatest moments to be found in his entire output. Bach brings the themes of betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption …

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Baroque dancer and choreographer Julia Bengtsson brings four “leading ladies” of the baroque era to life, recreating historical choreographies once danced by French ballerina Marie-Thérèse de Subligny and noted English dancer and actress Hester Santlow, and creating new choreographies for the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. The centerpiece of the program is Bengtsson’s choreography to …

A NEW WONDER: The Leading Ladies of Baroque Dance and Music Read More »