Archives: Events

March 3, 2026 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Take a break from your busy workday and join us to enjoy the music of Bach in a beautiful and relaxing atmosphere! Organ Prelude TBA CantataIch will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 Paula Maust, organistEdmund Milly, bass Robert Beizer, underwriter of the Noontime organ preludesPaul M. Angell Family Foundation, underwriters The Noontime Cantata Series […]

March 5, 2026 @ 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm – Poor Robin’s Almanack Thomas Fields ~ violLucine Musaelian ~ voice & violArnie Tanimoto ~ violParker Ramsay ~ harpsichord & harp How can we guess the weather? Supposing we know what’s coming, do we end up following through on our grand designs? In a program including selections from Christopher Simpson’s The Months and Thomas Simpson’s Taffel Consort, A Golden […]

March 5, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire visits the palace of Louis XIV – the Sun King, who was known to dress as our muse Apollo. The gorgeous music of Lully, Marais, and Rameau shows the orchestra at its finest. Flutes, oboes, and theorbos join the strings in the sumptuous program full of the majesty of 17th-century France. On Thursday […]

March 6, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 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 […]

March 6, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The Viola d’Amore was an instrument unique in timbre and resonance that evoked special emotions in operas and cantatas of the finest Baroque composers. With no uniform tuning or construction, surviving examples use anywhere from four to seven strings, with as many as 21 “sympathetic strings.” Two distinct versions of the instrument existed, one with […]