2011-12 Season 2011-12 Season, our 37th
September 25: Recital - Kenneth Weiss
October 23: Anonymous 4
November 20: Les Délices
December 18: Stile Antico
January 29: Choir of Corpus Christi Church
February 12: London Haydn Quartet with Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
March 2002: Music Before 1800 Hell's Kitchen
April 22: Juilliard Baroque
May 6: Pomerium
Sunday concerts take place at
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, near Columbia University
1 Sunday, September 25, 4 p.m.
Recital: Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord
A Cleare Day
The superb harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss performs works from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book using two different instruments - an Italian harpsichord and an ottavino, a portable keyboard. Their distinctive timbres add considerable variety to what is already a selection of radically different pieces by Munday, Dowland, Byrd, Philips, Farnaby, Gibbons, Peerson, Tomkins, and Bull.
A wine and cheese reception follows the concert.
3 Sunday, November 20, 4 p.m.
Les Délices
Debra Nagy, director and baroque oboe
Scott Metcalfe, baroque violin; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Lucas Harris, guitar and theorbo; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
The Tastes Reunited
Les Délices instrumental program captures a defining moment for French Baroque style when Couperin, Clérambault, Jean-Féry Rebel and Duphly eagerly assimilated the exciting vitality found in sonatas by Vivaldi, Corelli, and others. The new works show a scintillating French-Italian fusiona partial (and refreshing) break from the de rigueur music of Louis XIVs court.
H1 
Anne Azéma and Shira Kammen
Thursday, March 8, 8 p.m.
at the DiMenna Center
Le Jeu D'amour, Game of Love
Anne Azéma, soprano, and Shira Kammen, vielle, perform thirteenth-century love songs from France. The songs and poems, full of longing and desire, are enhanced with ornamentation and instrumental interludes.
H2 
Kiya Tabassian and Ziya Tabassian, Constantinople
Thursday, March 15, 8 p.m.
at the DiMenna Center
Mania
Kiya and Ziya Tabassian, on setar (a Persian plucked string instrument) and percussion, base their compositions on Persian classical style. Then they mix in medieval and modern Mediterranean and European music, improvising their way toward the mania of the title.
H3 
Paul Leenhouts and Gabriel Shuford
Thursday, March 22 , 8 p.m.
at the DiMenna Center
Arte de tañer fantasia
Paul Leenhouts, recorder, and Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord, embellish Spanish and Italian music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Practicing the art of diminution and improvisation, the virtuoso performers transform the original lines.
AboutUs About Us
Music Before 1800 is the longest-running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music at Corpus Christi Church for nearly 40 years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical. Offering artists of the highest caliber, we present audience favorites as well as rising stars. Our artists, including New York's finest ensembles, come from across the United States, Canada and Europe.
We now host concerts in March at the DiMenna Center.
Music Before 1800 is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Music Before 1800 is also supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Music Before 1800
529 West 121st Street
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: mb1800info_gmail.com
Telephone: 212-666-9266
Venue Information:
Sunday concerts take place at
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, near Columbia University
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MB1800 Hell's Kitchen concerts
are on Thursday nights in March at the
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street near 9th Avenue
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All venues are wheelchair accessible
Tickets are not refundable and cannot be exhanged.
Subscription tickets may be converted to a tax-deductible contribution if notice is given in advance, no later than the Friday before a concert.
