Music Before 1800 presents: La Morra (NYC debut!)
Corpus Christi Church (NYC) 529 West 121st Street, New YorkBach Week Festival: J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Evanston) 939 Hinman Ave., EvanstonMusic of the Seasons
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church 601 Montaรฑo NW, Albuquerque- No events scheduled for May 8, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 9, 2024.
Transformations: Bach and Rameau
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre 427 Bloor St. West, TorontoLove and Libations a French Women Composerโs program
Church of the Covenant 67 Newbury Street, BostonThe Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral 19 South 38th Street, PhiladelphiaTransformations: Bach and Rameau
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre 427 Bloor St. West, TorontoA Workshop with Camerata Transcontinental
Saint George's Episcopal Church 915 N. Oakland St., ArlingtonThe Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill 8855 Germantown Avenue, PhiladelphiaPlus Ultra – Music from the Empire of Charles V
St Ignatius of Antioch 552 West End Ave, New YorkDiferencias: Renaissance Instrumentals from Italy and Spain
Lindsay Chapel First Church in Cambridge Congregational 11 Garden St. (entrance on Mason St.), CambridgeWeek of Events
Transformations: Bach and Rameau
Transformations: Bach and Rameau
Known for his โmesmerizingโ (Ludwig van Toronto) performances, Kristian Bezuidenhout returns as harpsichordist and guest director for a program curated especially for Tafelmusik. Transformations draws on music that has morphed from one form to another by way of transcriptions, reworkings, and arrangements. Posthumous orchestral arrangements of several ofย Rameauโs pieces for solo harpsichord are an homage […]
The Whidbey Island Music Festival presents Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Voices in Art Song
The Whidbey Island Music Festival presents Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Voices in Art Song
Lift Every Voice A Celebration of Black Voices in Art Song Join radiant soprano Michele Kennedy and pianist Henry Lebedinsky for an uplifting, powerful, and inspiring program of Spirituals, art songs, and solo piano works by Black composers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, and Moses Hogan, along with insights and stories that vividly […]
Music Before 1800 presents: La Morra (NYC debut!)
Music Before 1800 presents: La Morra (NYC debut!)
Doron Schleifer voice Ivo Haun de Oliveira voice Corina Marti recorders & clavicembalum Michaล Gondko plectrum lute Vojtฤch Jakl fiddle Following its legacy of giving New York premieres to the worldโs elite ensembles, MB1800 presents La Morra from Basel, Switzerland to close our 49th season. Under the joint artistic leadership of Corina Marti and Michaล […]
Bach Week Festival: J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Bach Week Festival: J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
The Bach Week Festival will conclude its 50th anniversary and farewell season with J. S. Bachโs Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, hailed as a cathedral of sound, a myriad of musical miracles, and a crowning achievement of Western music. The work is a treasury of many of Bachโs greatest musical ideas. Soloists are Josefien […]
Music of the Seasons
Music of the Seasons
Mรบsica Antigua de Albuquerque will present "Music of the Seasons," a concert of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance about the four seasons of the year. Sorry, no Vivaldi, but there are lots of other tunes to choose from. Songs about spring were by far the most popular in olden times, with its association […]
Celestial Visions of Medieval England
Celestial Visions of Medieval England
This program will explore the connection between earthly and celestial forces as expressed in some distinct, compelling visions. Wind player and composer Mara Winter will lead Camerata through musings on humankindโs relationship to the universe, the mystery of creation, and the magic of the natural world, sung in all three of medieval Britainโs literary languages: […]
Precollege Early-Music Teachers Exploratory Conversations
Precollege Early-Music Teachers Exploratory Conversations
Early Music America invites precollege early-music teachers to join us for a series of exploratory conversations. Precollege early-music education is a key element in EMA's strategic plan.ย To help us focus on this vital topic, weย want to hear from youย about resources, curriculum, and advocacy teachersย need.ย Join us for one or both of the upcoming Zoom conversations. Register […]
Precollege Early-Music Teachers Exploratory Conversations
Precollege Early-Music Teachers Exploratory Conversations
Early Music America invites precollege early-music teachers to join us for a series of exploratory conversations. Precollege early-music education is a key element in EMA's strategic plan.ย To help us focus on this vital topic, weย want to hear from youย about resources, curriculum, and advocacy teachersย need.ย Join us for one or both of the upcoming Zoom conversations. Register […]
Baroque Practice dance workshop
Baroque Practice dance workshop
Baroque Practice, beginning September 5th, will be held on Tuesdays from 1-2 Eastern Standard Time. This free class online is designed for the general public. The class will be hosted by Catherine Turocy with additional guest teachers from the NYBDC and colleagues. Most classes will be a movement class but some sessions may be guided […]
Love and Libations a French Women Composerโs program
Love and Libations a French Women Composerโs program
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive contributions of Parisian women composers to the French Baroque and Rococo secular genres ofย airs sรฉrieux:ย serious songs with subjects such as love, politics, and pastoral scenes, andย airs ร boire:ย drinking songs to make merry with libations such as wine. These song forms celebrate passionate longing and self-indulgent inebriation. Our featured composer […]
Sarasa Presents: Birds of a Feather
Sarasa Presents: Birds of a Feather
J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-centuryโs Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmรผller, Reincken, Westhoff, […]
The Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
The Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
Golden Age Spain and Portugal resounded with music of the ministriles - the Renaissance wind players who held prominent roles in the cultural fabric of these countries. Piffaro pays homage to our Spanish and Portuguese forebears in a program that explores some of the vast repertoire from this time - or some of what still […]
A Workshop with Camerata Transcontinental
A Workshop with Camerata Transcontinental
Join the master teachers of Camerata Transcontinental (Letitia Berlin, recorder; Frances Blaker, recorder; Lawrence Lipnik, recorder and viola da gamba; Amy Domingues, viola da gamba; and Ronn McFarlane, lute) to explore the travels and interactions of 16th century English and European composers and the sumptuous, pathbreaking repertoire they created. Open to intermediate, upper intermediate and […]
Sarasa Presents: Birds of a Feather
Sarasa Presents: Birds of a Feather
J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-centuryโs Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmรผller, Reincken, Westhoff, […]
The Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
The Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain (Philadelphia)
Golden Age Spain and Portugal resounded with music of the ministriles - the Renaissance wind players who held prominent roles in the cultural fabric of these countries. Piffaro pays homage to our Spanish and Portuguese forebears in a program that explores some of the vast repertoire from this time - or some of what still […]
Plus Ultra – Music from the Empire of Charles V
Plus Ultra – Music from the Empire of Charles V
Pre-Concert Lecture 6:30 pm Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Missa Caro mea Motets by Crecquillon, Manchicourt, Gombert and more Charles V, colonial despot, ruthless emperor, or enlightened ruler? Charles was probably all of these things. The glories of his Imperial Chapel remain undisputed, and its reputation as one of the grandest in history endures. Charlesโ […]
Diferencias: Renaissance Instrumentals from Italy and Spain
Diferencias: Renaissance Instrumentals from Italy and Spain
Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, vihuela and theorbo) will play recercadas by Ortiz, fantasias by Gorzanis, Selma & Francesco da Milano, and toccatas and dances by Dalza and Kapsberger.ย The program concludes with a spectacular set of variations by English viola da gamba virtuoso Henry Butler, who moved to Spain, […]
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