Theorbist

Baroque Guitarist

An exploration of the music of concerto delle donne providing a stunning musical portrayal of love themes from a 17th-century perspective with works by Francesca Caccini, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Claudio Monteverdi, and Barbara Strozzi. The program explores themes from sapphic poetry and heavenly admiration to haunting heartbreak and suffering in celebration of the divine feminine.

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Midtown Concerts presents Le tre grazia a venere

St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church - The Actors' Chapel

From Court to Country will explore threads of connection between courtly and pastoral music in France, Italy, and England from the late Medieval to the early Baroque. Ranging from shepherdly love songs to sorrowful lamentations, this program highlights a growing complexity of polyphony, colorful text expression, and harmonic depth in music from the 13th through the 17th centuries.

Midtown Concerts presents Partimenti

This exclusive pre-season salon concert is limited to Patrons of the American Classical Orchestra and those who purchase individual tickets in advance.  It offers the intimate private-setting experience typical of classical music performed during the 1700s.

The program opens with one of Antonio Vivaldi’s best-known works, Concerto in G Major, RV 151, popularly known as Concerto alla Rustica.  Concertos typically feature soloists, but this one avoids them, showcasing the entire chamber group.  Frequently performed during Vivaldi’s lifetime, its popularity remains strong.  It has been featured in many films and TV series including Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and Freaky Tuesday, Liz Flahive’s and Carly Mensch’s Season 3 Episode of GLOW for Netflix.

La musica notturna di Madrid

Salmagundi Club

Romantic guitarist Adam Cockerham joins ACO strings in a performance of the well-known Boccherini String Quintet in C, with its famous Passacaille movement. Also performed is a lively Vivaldi string concerto.

Midtown Concerts presents American Classical Orchestra

Recorder virtuoso Tabea Debus is “one of the most exciting young musicians in the early music world” (Classic FM). In this program, Debus and her colleagues explore the longstanding phenomenon of earworms and how tunes and dances wormed their way into many aspects of music-making in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.

Tabea Debus, recorder

Logan Center

The ACO returns to the historic Harlem Parish, the stunning location of its fall ’20 filmed production of The Chaconne Project. Now we assemble the same performers to Revisit that experience in this lively program of Baroque repertoire with a focus on the chaconne—a musical genre that evolved from the bawdiness of 16th-century Spanish street dances to the refinement of Bach’s Chaconne for Solo Violin. In the splendid acoustics of Harlem Parish, we showcase ten vibrant chaconnes that use various combinations of strings, plucked instruments, harpsichord, voice and percussion. Acclaimed Mexican lyric soprano Guadalupe Peraza dazzles with her “mellow, conversational” mezzo (Opera News) and emotional delivery, complemented by dance and hand percussion.

Adam Cockerham

Theorbist, Baroque Guitarist

Events

May 2, 2024

Midtown Concerts presents Le tre grazia a venere · Gotham Early Music Scene

Apr 25, 2024

Midtown Concerts presents Partimenti · Gotham Early Music Scene

Sep 28, 2023

La musica notturna di Madrid · American Classical Orchestra

Sep 28, 2023

Midtown Concerts presents American Classical Orchestra · Gotham Early Music Scene

Mar 5, 2023

Tabea Debus, recorder · UChicago Presents

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