Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraig (Blessings of St. Patrick’s Day). You can be sure of a lively time this evening at The Custom House, 139 Montague Stret (between Clinton and Henry) or at O’Keefe’s Bar & Grill, 62 Court Stret (between Joralemon and Livingston). If you missed Theater 2020’s free reading of David Fuller’s The B’ard […]
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Repast Baroque Ensemble Presents “Dutch Masters – Painting and Music in the Early Baroque” at First Unitarian Saturday
The Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to Brooklyn Heights this coming Saturday afternoon, January 28 with “Dutch Masters – Painting and Music in the Early Baroque.” Repast’s program portrays the exquisite intimacy of music and painting in Holland’s Golden Age. Works by the female composer Leonora Duarte, as well as Flemish and Dutch composers including Hacquart […]
Two Singer-Songwriters at First Unitarian Saturday
First Unitarian Church’s McKinney Chapel, 121 Pierrepont Street, is hosting two concerts this weekend: chamber music on Friday evening, and on Saturday evening, January 21, starting at 7:30, two Brooklyn based singer-songwriters, Kyle Morgan (shown in the clip — click on the image to play — singing his “Deer in the Pines”) and E.W. Harris. […]
Chamber Music Concert at First Unitarian Tomorrow Evening
Tomorrow evening — Friday, January 20 — starting at 8:00, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, in conjunction with Canada’s Gryphon Trio, will present a concert at the McKinney Chapel of First Unitarian Church, 121 Pierrepont Street. The concert will feature the world premiere of a violin, cello, and piano trio by composer and cellist Paul […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Returns With French Music and Movies
The Repast Baroque Ensemble will return to the First Unitarian Church’s McKinney Chapel, 121 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton) this coming Wednesday evening, May 25, starting at 7:00. The program, “French Visions,” will combine performances of music by French composers of the Baroque era with clips from early twentieth century French silent films, […]
E-Waste Recycling Event This Sunday at First Unitarian Church: Drop Off Your Working and Non-Working Electronics
After you drop off your new or gently used children’s goods at Pierrepont Park this Sunday (see last post), head over to the First Unitarian Church on Pierrepont St. to drop off your working and non-working electronics between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Dig out all those old cellphones and laptops taking up space […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Presents “Fantasia” at First Unitarian Wednesday
The Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to the First Unitarian Church, McKinney Chapel, 121 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton Street) this Wednesday evening, March 16 starting at 7:30 PM. This concert, “Fantasia”, will take us [f]rom lush seventeenth-century instrumental works by Biber, Schmelzer, and Louis Couperin to later contrapuntal experiments by Bach and Telemann, […]
Electronics Recycling at First Unitarian Church Sunday
This Sunday, November 7 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, you may take your no longer useful or working (operable or not) electronic devices to the First Unitarian Church, Pierrepont Street and Monroe Place, for recycling. There’s more information here. Thanks to always helpful BHB reader Andrew Porter for the tip.
Repast Baroque Ensemble Returns to First Unitarian Wednesday
The Repast Baroque Ensemble – in photo, clockwise from top right: Amelia Roosevelt, violin; Sarah Stone, viola da gamba and cello; Gabe Shuford, harpsichord; and Stephanie Corwin, bassoon – will present “Storm and Solace” on Wednesday evening, October 13, starting at 7:30, in the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 121 Pierrepont Street (between […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble’s “Struggle and Jubilation” Concert Postponed
We have been advised by Repast Baroque Ensemble that their concerts, “Struggle and Jubilation,” scheduled for this coming Wednesday, March 18 at McKinney Chapel, First Unitarian Church, and also at Manhattan Country School on Thursday, March 19, have been postponed to dates to be announced. We will let you know when those dates have been decided. […]
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