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May 27, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Live Baroque Music and Dance BALAM Dance Theatre presents a multi-disciplinary program, featuring excerpts from the Leycester Lyra Viol manuscript (1670), Scottish tunes by Francesco Barsanti (1742), Toccata Arpegiatta by Giovanni Kaspberger (1604), Prelude in d minor and Fandango by Maestro Matias (1786), and choreography by Carlos Fittante. This

May 20, 2021, 1:15pm EDT Bohemian Rhapsody Music from the Kromeriz Archive in Moravia, including some of the most popular, original and striking of all 5-part music by Heinrich Schmelzer, Biber, and Biber’s colleague Pavel Vejvanovský. In his capacity as librarian and copyist, Vejvanovský, is largely to thank for assembling this vast corpus of music.

May 13, 2021, 1:15 PM EST The Diverging Baroque Traditions Eighteenth-century Europe was a melting pot of diverging musical traditions. Marin Marais and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre’s music showcase essences of the French tradition; Giuseppe Sammartini represents the late Baroque Italian style; and German composers Telemann and Handel’s cosmopolitan style blends various European traditions together   Alex

April 22, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Sonatas for Horn and Piano by Beethoven and Danzi Beethoven’s Sonata in F for Horn and Piano, written for the internationally famous horn soloist, Giovanni Punto (Jan Václav Stich 1746–1803), along with two selections which showcase the vocal qualities of this valveless instrument.   Douglas Lundeen, natural horn Chung-Hsi Hsieh, piano

April 15, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Style Benders In the 18th century the musical rivalry between France and Italy culminated in a hybrid style, famously dubbed by François Couperin as “Les Goûts réunis”. This program will feature works by some of these style-bending champions — J. S. Bach, G. P. Telemann, and Couperin himself. David