March 15, 2026 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – A rare New York performance by Ireland’s flagship period music ensemble adorns St. Patrick’s Day weekend with the story of Giusto Tenducci, superstar castrato of 1760s Dublin. Artistic Director Peter Whelan and countertenor Hugh Cutting explore the musical context of Ireland against the scandalous details of Tenducci’s story. Featuring music by Mozart, Gluck, J.C. […]
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March 19, 2026 @ 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm – The Cello Through Time Allen Maracle & Andrew Koutroubas ~ violoncellos Ezra Gans ~ bassoon Yunyi Ji ~ harpsichord Long utilized as simply a continuo instrument to play basslines, 17th-century Italian composers began to experiment with writing increasingly virtuosic music for the solo violoncello. This program will feature an evolution of the violoncello from […]
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March 20, 2026 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Early Music Missouri brings its Women’s History Month concert to the Kemper Unplugged series on the WashU campus with a program of music by several important women musicians active in 17th-century Italy. Active in the early decades of the century, Francesca Caccini was a renowned singer whose songs follow the model of her father, Giulio […]
March 20, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – FERN ENSEMBLE “Musical Conversations: Trio Sonatas from 1610-1738” You won’t want to miss this creative concert exploring conversations between musicians, instruments, nationalities, and chamber music traditions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features one of Telemann’s beloved “Paris Quartets,” composed during his visit to Paris in 1737-1738. The piece is a beautiful […]
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March 21, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – What remains when time and history have taken their toll? This Lenten program centers on the three surviving Troisième Leçons de Ténèbres by Michel-Richard DeLalande, each drawn from a different day of the Tenebrae office and all that remain of a once-complete cycle of nine Leçons. Their incompleteness becomes part of the meditation, bearing […]
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