2023-24 Season
A Companionable Afternoon
Saturday October 7, 2023
4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
21 Clara Barton St., Dansville
Sunday October 8, 2023
2:00 pm
Episcopal Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene
(Two Saints Church)
17 S. Fitzhugh St., Rochester
Jeffrey Thompson, tenor
Boel Gidholm & Mary Ricccardi, baroque violin
Beiliang Zhu, viola da gamba
Christopher Haritatos, baroque cello
Naomi Gregory, harpsichord
Join us for a cheerful celebration of music for violins and viola da gamba—two families of instruments that didn't always get to play together, but whom we will hear companionably sharing the stage in this concert. We will perform music from Germany and France, neighbors sharing a border, if not a musical style. Tenor Jeffrey Thompson will join us for songs by Erlebach, a gorgeous cantata by Montéclair with viola da gamba solo, and a comic mini-opera by Grandval, allowing Jeffrey to portray 5 different characters within 15 minutes!
Admission Free! Donations gratefully accepted ($20 suggested).
The Dansville concert is made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the Rodney Hatch Family Fund at the Rochester Area Community Foundation, and by a Regrowth and Capacity Enhancement grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Echoes of the Renaissance
Thursday February 15, 2024
7:30 pm
Memorial Art Gallery Fountain Court
500 University Avenue, Rochester
The use of double choirs—two (or more) ensembles of instruments or voices trading musical material antiphonally—was popular in northern Italy in the late 1500s and early 1600s. In this program the MAG organ itself will be one of the choirs, juxtaposed with a string ensemble, letting the audience enjoy the full palette of sounds of Eastman's Italian Baroque Organ. Complementing these rich sounds of the late Renaissance will be sonatas for strings and basso continuo by groundbreaking composers active around the same time, who created the music that ushered in a new era, the Baroque.
On the series of Third Thursday Concerts with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ
Free with Gallery admission
Limited seating!
Concerto Grosso!
Friday April 12, 2024
7:30 pm
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
597 East Avenue, Rochester
Saturday April 13, 2024
4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
21 Clara Barton St., Dansville
Admission Free! Donations gratefully accepted ($20 suggested).
The Dansville performance is made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the Rodney Hatch Family Fund at the Rochester Area Community Foundation.