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October 9, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Historian, critic, composer and editor, Charles Burney was one of the first to write a survey of music history in the English language. Join with his spirit of curiosity and hear Charles Burney’s A General History of Music (publ. 1776 – 1789) come to life with music from plainchant to the Reformation and beyond. Anne O’Byrne, […]

October 10, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The season launches with an all-strings program built around drama, rivalry, and virtuosity. Italian firebrand Pietro Antonio Locatelli and French master Jean-Marie Leclair display their radically different musical personalities. Locatelli’s music crackles with showmanship, while Leclair answers with devilish bite, each pushing the expressive limits of the violin. That spirit carries into Vivaldi, as two […]

October 11, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The season launches with an all-strings program built around drama, rivalry, and virtuosity. Italian firebrand Pietro Antonio Locatelli and French master Jean-Marie Leclair display their radically different musical personalities. Locatelli’s music crackles with showmanship, while Leclair answers with devilish bite, each pushing the expressive limits of the violin. That spirit carries into Vivaldi, as two […]

October 11, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – As this program will show, Italy is more than just Vivaldi’s Four Seasons! The program reflects the great variety in Italian forms and styles in the late 17th and earlier 18th centuries. The rules weren’t all too strict, and the terminology didn’t matter too much: the designation sinfonia, concerto, or concerto grosso did not necessarily […]

October 11, 2026 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – Museum Concerts, Rhode Island’s premier early-music concert series, opens its 60th anniversary season on October 11 with the Providence Baroque Orchestra performing works by Corelli, Handel, and Vivaldi.  The Corelli and Handel pieces showcase the concerto grosso. Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, a moving work for solo voice and orchestra, features rising countertenor Sam Higgins, recognized nationally […]