February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – In our annual jaunt to the dance floor, STS will provide splendid live music for the Harvard Square English Country Dance. You’ll hear tunes popular from 1650 up to the present; some are elegant, some rowdy, some romantic, some playful. English Country Dance is social, community dancing. The friendly and helpful dance caller will teach […]
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February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Relic accompanies Odysseus on his dangerous trek homeward with a program featuring works by Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, and others. From Cyclopes to Circe to the Sirens, follow Odysseus’s dangerous trek homeward as he faces every peril and temptation. Relic brings this epic adventure to life in a program featuring works by Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, and […]
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February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Italy was the source for the creation of new musical ideas by adding much improvisation and ornamentation. Plucked and bowed string instruments were used as the continuo in music of the middle and high baroque. William Simms joins on theorbo as we share music of Merula. Vivaldi, Leonarda, Sammartini, Lotti and Albinoni. Tickets: $8-16. https://www.carolinapromusica.org […]
Caolina Pro Musica: An Italian Souvenir Read More »
February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (ca. 1690 to 1758) grew up in Bologna and spent much of his career at the courts of Munich and Stuttgart. His Concerti a tre are richly imaginative trio sonatas that combine the intimacy of chamber music with the brilliance of concerto-style violin writing. Each work functions like a concerto for two […]
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February 28, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Girolamo Frescobaldi is a major figure in the history of keyboard music with a widespread and lasting influence on his contemporaries and later generations. This recital of 17th century music will explore the colorful, expressive style of Frescobaldi and its echoes in the works of Johann Jakob Froberger, Louis Couperin, and Michelangelo Rossi. Wesley Leffingwell […]
