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November 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – “Les voix humaines“   Marin Marais’ amazing piece “Les voix humaines” for bass viol and continuo serves as the inspiration for this program. The viola da gamba has historically been chosen when the sound of the human voice seeks to be represented. Abigail Nims also offers her voice and artistry in Bach’s Aria “Es ist […]

November 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Music inspired by the many states of everlasting sleep. Works for soprano, strings, lute and organ by Dowland, Arne, Bembo, Muffat, JB Bach & JS Bach. With Kristen Watson, soprano, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; Michael Leopold, lute/theorbo; Michael Beattie, organ

November 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – England’s foremost composer of the 1610s, the prodigiously talented Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal at the tender age of 20, then promoted as its chief organist only two years later. By 1623 he was Organist at Westminster Abbey, remaining there until his early, untimely death. The musical canvas on […]

November 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – Newton Baroque presents this program of motets for five and six voices by Vicente Lusitano and his contemporaries Nicolas Gombert, Cristóbal Morales, and Adrian Willaert. Lusitano was among the first Black composers to publish music, and most of the works on this concert come from his Liber primus epigramatum, a 1551 collection of motets for […]

November 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Escape to the stage with Ann Ford (1737-1824)! When British socialite Ann Ford’s father demanded that she marry a man 30-years her senior (who had attempted to pay for her hand in marriage), she was desperate to find a way out. With money she borrowed from her well-to-do friends, Ann rented out some of London’s most prestigious […]