October 12, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Dido and Aeneas, the ancient Roman myth of love and betrayal, was recounted 2000 years ago in Virgil’s Aeneid – and still resonates today. The Trojan hero Aeneas lands on the shores of Carthage, where the beautiful and proud Queen Dido reigns. Just after winning her love, Aeneas suddenly departs – summoned by the gods. Was it […]
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October 12, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – https://www.mountainsidebaroque.org/gems-from-a-new-era The 2025-2026 Mountainside Baroque season will lead off on Sunday, October 12, at 4pm at the Shrine of Ss. Peter and Paul, on Fayette at Smallwood in Cumberland. In “Gems from a New Era: Haydn, Mozart and More,” the organization will venture beyond the Baroque to a new era in composition–the mid 18th-century “new […]
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October 15, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Legendary French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, lauded as one of today’s most exceptional and musically expressive harpsichordists, performs two of G.F. Handel’s sumptuous, stately and oh! so compelling Suites for Harpsichord. Hantaï supplements those with his own compilations of Suites drawn from Handel’s oeuvres ‘Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin’ 1720 and 1733. The splendid, rich […]
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October 16, 2025 @ 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm – Les Très Riches Heures: A Rich Year of Medieval Improvisation Tina Chancey ~ vielle, rebec & kamenj Mark Rimple ~ medieval lute, gittern & voice Shawn Keener ~ projection design Oliver Weston ~ projectionist HESPERUS celebrates its reincarnation as an early music improv collective with a program of twelve medieval improvisations inspired by a […]
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October 16, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Suite in G Minor Sainte-Colombes le Fils Suite in D Major Marin Marais Sonata in A Minor Johannes Schenck Partita in B Minor, BWV 1002 Johann Sebastian Bach In this special program entitled Chelys (the ancient Greek lyre of Apollo), Violist da gamba Stephen Moran brings to life unaccompanied works for the viol by Sainte-Colombe […]
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