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Machaut Weekend: Opening Festivities: Keynote, Performance & Sing-Along

Concerts, Festivals

May 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Join us for a three-day festival featuring the poetry and music of 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer, Guillaume de Machaut (d. 1377). Our celebration of Machaut begins with a keynote talk by one of the world’s leading scholars of 14th-century music, Anne Stone (CUNY Graduate Center), performances of pieces in several of the genres represented in Machaut’s oeuvre, […]

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Early Music Missouri presents “Dido & Aeneas: Henry Purcell’s Opera in Concert”

Concerts

May 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Early Music Missouri makes its first foray into Baroque opera with a concert performance of Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. The cast includes soprano Arianna Aerie as Dido, baritone Kevin Duco Warner as Aeneas and countertenor Keith Wehmeier as the Sorceress. Soloists from Early Music Missouri’s Vocal Ensemble will sing the other solo roles and […]

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Machaut Weekend: Talks & Demonstrations: Machaut & Nature’s Children

Festivals, Other

May 2, 2026 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join us for a three-day festival featuring the poetry and music of 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer, Guillaume de Machaut (d. 1377). Machaut was both a poet and a composer, and he took great pains to preserve his artistic creations in complete-works manuscripts that were lavishly illustrated and illuminated. This pair of talks by Ardis Butterfield of Yale […]

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Making Ouvertures

Concerts

May 2, 2026 @ 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm – In 1723, when Hamburg, Germany’s officials wanted music for a celebration of the city’s maritime heritage, they turned to their famous local composer, Georg Philipp Telemann. The Overture he gave them captured the motion and character of Hamburg’s main waterway, the River Elbe, from musical portraits of mythological water spirits to the stomping dances of […]

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