Tomorrow (Saturday, May 5) Brooklyn Bridge Park will be host to a kite festival, to be held on Pier 1’s Harbor View Lawn from noon until 2:30 PM. Admission is free. BYOK, or buy or make one there. There’s more information here. (Photo by C. Scales from 2013 festival.) Alert reader Andrew Porter has compiled […]
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Repast Baroque Ensemble Returns With “Bohemian Fantasy” Friday
The Repast Baroque Ensemble will return to the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton Street) on Friday evening, May 4 at 8:00, to present “Bohemian Fantasy”. The program is “[i]nspired by the improvisatory, imaginative, contemplative, and funny works by the Baroque era’s great Bohemian virtuosi”, and […]
“Dresden Fireworks” by Repast Baroque Ensemble this Friday
This Friday evening, March 2 at 8:00 the Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), to perform a concert of “Dresden Fireworks.” On the program are works by WF Bach, Fasch, Veracini, Vivaldi (image; shown holding an 18th century predecessor to […]
Sounds of the Court of the Sun King by Repast Baroque Ensemble this Friday
François Couperin (1668-1733) was a French baroque composer and musician whose career came to full fruition at the court of Louis XIV (the “Sun King”; image). On Friday evening, October 20, at 8:00, the Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to the McKinney Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), to perform […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Presents Latin American Baroque at First Unitarian Friday Evening
This Friday evening, May 19 at 8:00, at the McKinney Chapel at First Unitarian Congregational Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton Street; concert venue fully accessible), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Latin American Baroque.” The concert will include music from Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Spain. The musicians of Repast will […]
“Handel and the Voice” at First Unitarian This Friday Evening, March 17
This Friday evening, March 17, at 8:00 at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Handel and the Voice,” a concert of works by Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Telemann, including vocals by bass-baritone Jonathan Woody. Tickets are $30 general […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Salutes Christina of Sweden at First Unitarian Tomorrow Evening
Tomorrow (Friday, October 21) evening at 8:00, at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church (116 Pierrepont, near Monroe Place), the Repast Baroque Ensemble will present a musical tribute to Queen Christina of Sweden. Queen Christina of Sweden was a fascinating personality, on the one hand celebrated for her intellectual brilliance, and on the […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Performs Goldberg Variations At First Unitarian Tuesday Evening
On Tuesday evening, May 24, at 8:00, at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will perform J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The Goldbergs are usually played on solo piano; Repast will do a version arranged for chamber ensemble. Tickets are $35 […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble at First Unitarian Friday Evening
This is a big weekend for music in Brooklyn Heights. On Friday evening, April 8, at 8:00 (a pre-concert talk will begin at 7:15) at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Capriccio Stravagante/A Musical Portrait of the Exuberant […]
Go For Baroque, and Swing Like an 18th Century Parisian, at First Unitarian This Friday
This Friday evening, September 18 at 8:00, at the Chapel at First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (concert venue fully accessible), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Savages in the Salons: Music from Paris in the Raging 1830s.” Repast presents a program of music by Rameau and his circle (including Telemann and Leclair) from […]
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