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

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

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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Ben Franklin’s Musical Curiosity

May 2, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Delve into the fascinating history of Franklin’s musical circles, both at home in America and in Paris at the soirées of composer Anne Brillon de Jouy. Enjoy an alluring bouquet of songs and instrumental works by Francis Hopkinson, John Antes, James Oswald, C.F. Abel, Brillon de Jouy, and Franklin himself! With soprano Emily Siar.

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