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October 17, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Step into a rarer Baroque soundscape as PBO’s wind players take center stage. Oboe, recorder, bassoon, and harpsichord trace a lively conversation between the cosmopolitan composers of London and their continental counterparts. Pepusch opens a window onto London’s musical scene, blending elegance and energy as the winds play off one another. Vivaldi displays his prowess […]

October 17, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Join us as we celebrate 100 years of World Book Day with music from the Renaissance. We’ll connect with the book and play works by Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. You’ll hear music performed on Renaissance recorders, shawms, dulcian, and sackbut. 

October 17, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – In celebration of our country’s 250th birthday, Riverview Early Music presents a program of vocal and instrumental music from the American Colonial period. Featuring a broad range of genres — including sacred hymns, pop and theatre music, lively dance tunes, dramatic ballads, and finally, stirring songs of rebellion — Riverview will give audiences an opportunity […]

October 17, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – As the Founding Fathers launched the Revolutionary War in 1776, they also dispatched their most charming and skilled diplomat, Ben Franklin, on an assignment in Paris to secure crucial French military aid for the American Revolution. As one of the most colorful geniuses in American history, the 70-year-old Franklin knew that the way to win […]

October 17, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm – In sixteenth-century Antwerp, a small shop described as being found “At the Sign of the Crumhorn” drew musicians, dancers, and the curious inside. There, the publisher Tielman Susato sent new music out into the world – tunes that became massively popular and culturally influential. This program opens that door again, with the vivid sound of […]