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September 21, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – In the spring of 1747, J.S. Bach paid a visit to King Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Phillip Emmanuel was employed as a court musician. Curious to test Bach’s contrapuntal prowess, Frederick presented Bach with a subject to improvise two fugues, first one in three parts, and then one in six. Declining the […]

September 22, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Our celebratory year will launch with a concert featuring Amanda Forsythe with Pacific MusicWorks. What would a 50th anniversary be without tipple to toast? A taste for good life and celebration has always found a willing partner in wine, as historical singing societies, pubs, theatres, and court music attest. Seventeenth century Rome was an unparalleled […]

September 22, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – In the spring of 1747, J.S. Bach paid a visit to King Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Phillip Emmanuel was employed as a court musician. Curious to test Bach’s contrapuntal prowess, Frederick presented Bach with a subject to improvise two fugues, first one in three parts, and then one in six. Declining the […]

September 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – VERDANT MEDICINE celebrates mystic, medic, and musician Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), a medieval polymath who expanded both Christian theology and the humoral theory of Galen to connect the viriditas (living greenness) of plants and the metaphorical viridity of spirituality directly to the human body and its functioning. Her beliefs are mirrored in the music she […]

September 27, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Imagine yourself in Ferrara, Italy, in 1580. The Duke’s famed musica secreta is about to perform in the private chambers of the Duchess. These three professional women singers, singing music composed especially for them, are a sensation throughout Italy and beyond.  Join us as we explore this fascinating and virtuosic repertoire! Music by Luzzaschi, Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Monteverdi, and more.Laura […]