November 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Come explore the art of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet nicknamed ‘The Bard of Humanity.’ You’ll hear Burns’ deeply expressive lyrics flowing over fiddle tunes and folk songs. Revel in music from the Renaissance to today, with rousing Scottish dances, sonatas, jigs, and reels. Program: Folk and parlor songs set to Robert Burns’ poetry and […]
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November 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – In 1501, Ottaviano Petrucci transformed the world of music. With his groundbreaking invention of music printing, he made it possible for Renaissance masterpieces to reach far beyond the courts and chapels of Europe. Petrucci’s beautifully engraved publications preserved the voices of the era’s greatest composers — Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Isaac, and Marchetto Cara among […]
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November 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – With SALTWINDS & SPICE, Alkemie, joins forces with Rose of the Compass, featuring recorder superstar Nina Stern and Armenian-American oud-player and composer Ara Dinkjian. Together, we explore the world of medieval Cyprus offering a window into a multiethnic entrepôt. Hear musical tales of rose-scented fountains, shrines famous for both holy relics and snake-hunting cats, and dynasties […]
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November 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Mozart’s Requiem, interwoven with selections from: Damien GETER: An African American Requiem (2019) Eric GOULD: 1791: Requiem for the Ancestors (World Premiere) Jessie MONTGOMERY: Five Freedom Songs (2020) —– 1791: Against the backdrop of worldwide unrest and revolution, Mozart composed his masterful Requiem – as he lay dying. Struggles for democracy were unfolding around him, in France, Haiti, […]
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November 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Rachel Podger, director With their program Brilliant Baroque, Tafelmusik and Rachel Podger ignite the quintessential spirit of the baroque in this program of music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and others. The journey begins with an array of baroque treasures from Rachel’s native England: works by Handel, Purcell and Charles Avison. New to the Tafelmusik stage […]
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