Jun
7

The Alba Consort

Program to be announced soon, stay tuned!

Featuring:

Margo Andrea, mezzo-soprane and vielle

Rex Benincasa, voice and percussion

Karen Lindquist, renaissance and modern harp

Jason Priset, renaissance lute and baroque guitar

Carlo Valte, oud and guitar

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May
21

Salon Sanctuary Concert Series, "Paradise Toss'd"

Heaven and Earth go back to back as two Marian Anthems frame a trio of tortured queens. Arias of Stradella’s conflicted Ester, Monteverdi’s dejected Ottavia, and Handel’s scheming Agrippina trace an arc from doubt to misery to bloodthirsty delusion, as two prayers to the Queen of Heaven flip from calm to turbulence on either side. 

Opening with a courtly homage and concluding with an impassioned plea, the throne is more prison than privilege in this concert devoted to monarchs on the verge.

Camerata San Luca:

Jessica Gould, soprano

Gonzalo Ruiz. oboe

Alexandra Calabro & Claire Smith, violins

Christopher Morrongiello, baroque guitar & lute

Jason Priset, theorbo

Adam Young, viola da gamba

Robert Warner, harpsichord

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Apr
10

Shakespeare in Verse, Music, and Dance

  • The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center (map)
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https://news.hofstra.edu/event/shakespeare-in-verse-music-and-dance/

Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College and the Hofstra Cultural Center present the

JOSEPH G. ASTMAN INTERNATIONAL CONCERT

Shakespeare in Verse, Music, and Dance, By Erik Ryding, Directed by Christopher Morrongiello

This exquisite program presents selected recitations from Shakespeare’s most beloved sonnets and plays set to music of the lute, recorder, virginal, harpsichord, and voice. Included are Shakespeare’s Sonnets 116 and 128 and verses from Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Sir Thomas More, As You Like It, The Tempest, and Othello. It also features dances invoked by Shakespeare, offering a rare opportunity to experience period dances based on historical choreographies. Composers include Henry VIII, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, Robert Johnson, and Henry Lawes.

Funding for this concert has been provided by the Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College and the Joseph G. Astman Family Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center.

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Mar
15

The Turbulent Life and Times of Nicholas Lanier

The Turbulent Life and Times of Nicholas Lanier

Nicholas Lanier was the first Master of the King’s Music in the reign of Charles I (1625–1649). Internationally renowned as a lutenist, song writer and art expert he joined the dots between politics, poetry and art at one of the most culturally ambitious courts of the seventeenth century. His songs were collected and published for decades after his heyday. Lanier and his fellow court musicians experienced tumultuous times — their music reflects both the languid serenity of a Golden Age and sorrow at its destruction.

Alan Fellows, Ryland Angel, and friends ~ voice, viols, theorbo, and chamber organ.

Saturday, March 15 at 7 pm
Admission by donation on the door
All proceeds to St John’s in the Village music fund

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Sep
19

LIBE presents the ALBA Consort

Romance of the Rose: Songs of Love and Wonderment Over the Caucasus to the Sea...

Early music from Europe's Mediterranean and the Near East on original instruments,

and featuring "Four Persian Mystic Poems" by Reza Vali composed for ALBA Consort.

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Sep
15

LIBE Presents ALBA Consort

Romance of the Rose: Songs of Love and Wonderment Over the Caucasus to the Sea...

Early music from Europe's Mediterranean and the Near East on original instruments,

and featuring "Four Persian Mystic Poems" by Reza Vali composed for ALBA Consort.

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Jun
30
to Jul 14

Amherst Early Music Festival

  • 807 Union Street Schenectady, NY, 12308 United States (map)
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Amherst Early Music is the largest presenter of Early Music workshops in North America. We create learning opportunities for amateur and pre-professional students to study with leading musicians in the field of Early Music. Classes are available for most early music instruments, and music ranging from Medieval to Baroque. You can choose the combination of classes that works for you -- perfect if, like some of our students, you sing or dance and play an instrument or two. Play in consorts of like or mixed instruments, investigate a new repertory, take a dance class, or begin a new instrument.

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Jun
23
to Jun 29

Lute Society of America Festival

  • 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH, 44106 United States (map)
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Jason Priset will again be directing the LSA Lute Festival at Case Western Reserve University. This is the preeminent lute festival in North America and is host to the greatest lutenists from around the world. This year’s festival will feature classes and concerts by; Paul O’Dette, Nigel North, Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Lucas Harris, Bor Zuljan, Robert Barto, and more.

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May
30

New York Baroque Dance Company

Audiences will be transported back to the early 1700s with virtuosic dances created for the most famous dancers of their time; Marie Sallé, Marie-Thérèse Subligny, Hester Santlow and Claude Balon.

Julia S Bengtsson and Patrick Pride from The New York Baroque Dance Company will be accompanied by Paul Shipper (recorder and guitar), Dongmyung Ahn (violin) and Jason Priset, (theorbo).

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May
25

New York Baroque Dance Company

Audiences will be transported back to the early 1700s with virtuosic dances created for the most famous dancers of their time; Marie Sallé, Marie-Thérèse Subligny, Hester Santlow and Claude Balon.

Julia S Bengtsson and Patrick Pride from The New York Baroque Dance Company will be accompanied by Paul Shipper (recorder and guitar), Dongmyung Ahn (violin) and Jason Priset, (theorbo).

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