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2009 - 2010 Series
Midtown Concerts:
September 2009 | October 2009 | November 2009 | December 2009 | January 2010
February 2010 | March 2010 | April 2010 | May 2010
February 2010
***A NOTE TO OUR AUDIENCE***
All Midtown Concerts beginning in February, 2010 will take place at Immanuel Lutheran Church (122 E. 88th St. at Lexington Avenue)!
F E B R U A R Y 3
The Practitioners of Musick: Handel and Friends
The Practitioners of Musick (John Burkhalter, recorder; Gavin Black, harpsichord) will present Handel and Friends. Music to be heard includes various 18th-century arrangements of Mr. Handel's celebrated chamber airs for the Theatre as well as works by Thomas Augustine Arne and John Stanley. John Burkhalter studied early music at the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University and is involved in an impressive array of musical projects, including serving as a musical consultant for the National Geographic Society. Gavin Black, a graduate of Princeton University and Westminster Choir College, is a founding member of several chamber ensembles including the Princeton Baroque Ensemble, Whitechapel Baroque, and Channel Crossings. He is currently the continuo player for the ensemble Col Legno, and the principal continuo player for The Practitioners of Musick.
F E B R U A R Y 10
Ensemble Calandra: Music by Hasse and Telemann
The newly-formed Ensemble Calandra (Sarah Moulton, soprano; Christa Pehl, traverso; Wendy Young, harpsichord) makes its debut performance as a part of the Midtown Concert Series performing Johann Adolf Hasse’s Quel Vago Seno, O Fille and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Cantata for the Feast of the Three Kings. Sarah Moulton has performed as a soloist with Ton Koopman at Zankel Hall, with New York City Opera in Candide, and in Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate at the historic St. Mauritius Church in Zermatt, Switzerland. Christa Pehl is a PhD candidate in musicology at Princeton University and has performed with groups such as Tempesta di Mare. Wendy Young has performed at many of America’s major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center, and has been heard on local and National Public Radio. She has played for numerous commercials, and movie soundtracks, including the soundtrack for the Warner Bros. movie Interview with the Vampire.
 Sarah Moulton of Ensemble Calandra
F E B R U A R Y 17
NO CONCERT – Ash Wednesday
F E B R U A R Y 24
Charites: The Lais of Machaut
Charites (Brooke Bryant, Brett Umlauf and Amber Youell, voices) will present The Lais of Machaut. The most celebrated composer of the fourteenth century, Guillaume de Machaut was also a poet who sought to foster a close alliance between text and music in his works. Machaut’s lais—narrative poems on chivalric themes sung throughout— exemplify this relationship. His pieces elevate this old genre, using ars nova techniques to evoke court culture in elegant, complex ways. Charites is a female trio committed to performing the music of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque composers staged with period gesture. Charites is the Greek term for “Graces,”referring to the three mythological daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. The Graces govern traits such as charm, beauty and creativity, all of which the group aims to transmit in its concerts. The members of the group are equally invested in scholarship and performance and seek to blur the lines between these two arenas. Founded in 2006, Charites has thrilled audiences at venues like the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Bartholemew's Church, the University of Utah, Manhattan College, Columbia University and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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