Emi Ferguson

Rachel Ellen-Wong

Ruckus

Early Music in Columbus

The widespread artistic depictions of the Virgin Mary as the queen of virgins surrounded by four companions demonstrates the great honor paid to these five women during the Middle Ages. This concert commemorates the thorny lives of these martyrs, whose veneration is preserved in numerous medieval musical manuscripts. 

Based in Prague, the Tiburtina Ensemble specializes in the interpretation of Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony. The ensemble ranks among the best in Europe in the field of early music performance thanks to its unmistakable timbre and impassioned expression.

Tiburtina

St. Joseph Cathedral

Ruckus is joined by Emi Ferguson, flute, and Rachel Ellen Wong, violin.

While George Frideric Handel and Ignatius Sancho never met each other, they inhabited the same world, and shared one thing for certain: the transcendent joy that comes from a life of music and dance with good company.  And if there is one thing that encapsulates the joy of togetherness in 18th-century England it was the English Country Dance. Sweating, laughing, spinning, holding hands…. Propelled onwards by the unrelenting groove of the music.