Timeless Wonders: Love Songs & Instrumental Music

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Tuesday Feb. 21^st, 2012 7:00 PM

U.S Columbarium (Chapel)

61-40 Mount Olivet Crescent

Middle Village, NY 11379

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BaroQue Across the River


In Concert

Timeless Wonders: Love Songs & Instrumental Music

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Concerts are a Success!! Some photos.....

These photos were taken during the dress rehearsal before Baroque Across the RIver's performance at TENRI on W. 13th St in New York City.

BaroQue Across the River - Elegance and Extravagance

Brooklyn, New York-based early music ensemble BaroQue Across the River will perform “Elegance & Extravagance: Cantatas and Solos from France & Italy” on December 3-4, 2010 in New York City. The December 3 concert will be held at 7:30pm at Brooklyn Friends Meeting House, 110 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn (718.643.4608); The December 4, 8:00pm concert will be held at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, in Manhattan (914.633.0758). Tickets are $20.00 (suggested donation) at door for both concerts.

Two rival styles dominated European music in the late 17th – early 18th Century — the delicate and demure French style favored elegant melodies in contrast to the more passionate, virtuosic and extravagant style of Italian music. In “Elegance & Extravagance: Cantatas and Solos from France & Italy” BaroQue Across the River offers selections of this exuberant contrast with music by Rameau, Clérambault, Scarlatti, Couperin, and Vivaldi.
(Thanks to Peter McDowell Arts for help with this post.)

GALA POST HOLIDAY CONCERT- Baroque Across the River Participates

Start the year off with an amazing Early Music concert. Here is the information:
SUNDAY, January 4, 2009 at 3PM
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WHO: Gala Post-Holiday Concert! (Adesso Early Music, Alta Wind Band, Anime Barq., ARTEK, Baroque Across the River, Bklyn Barq., Callisto Ascending, Ens. Breve, Ens. Viscera, Glissando Duo, Infiorare, My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, NY Continuo Collective, Parthenia, Sinfonia Praetorius)
WHAT: Gala Multi-Group Post-Holiday Concert - Over 60 musicians and 15 ensembles performing in a Gala concert of early music. Each ensemble will perform a short selection in addition to large group opening and closing pieces.
WHERE: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 122 East 88th St. at Lexington Ave., New York, NY
PRESENTED BY: Immanuel Lutheran Church, ARTEK, Gotham Early Music Scene
ADMISSION: Free; Donations accepted
CONTACT: www.midtownconcerts.org
WEB: http://www.gemsny.org

Thanks to our friend, Michael Sanita, at Polyphony.com (www.polyphony.com) who keeps a list of the best concerts in Early Music held each month in New York City. He does all of us a great service in furthering the cause of Early Music. Thanks, Michael.

November 26 BaroQue Across the River @ St. Bart's (Park&51st St.)- The Joys of Coffee

The Joys of Coffee

18th-century coffee houses were the hub of news and inevitably a place where new ideas were formed. BaroQue Across the River offers a coffee break with a well-known favorite aria from J. S. Bach's "Coffee Cantata" (BWV 211) as well as the delightful lesser-known cantata "Le CafÈ" by Nicolas Bernier.

BaroQue Across The River, now in its eighth season, presents concerts on original instruments in historical settings. Engaging New Yorkís finest early music performers, B.A.R. has brought concerts to Brooklynís historic Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Historical Society, Wyckoff House Museum, Akwaaba Mansion, Lefferts House, Zion German Lutheran Church, The Society for Ethical Culture, the Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts and the Bruce Museum in Greenwhich, CT. In 2007-08, BAR Concerts included a summer festival in Quebec, Canada and a concert for ìMusic on the Heightsî series at the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information: November 26, 2008 1:15 pm "Midtown Concerts" St. Bartholomew's (Park Ave, & 51st Street NYC)For more information: http://www.midtownconcerts.org/html/november_2008.html

BaroQue Across the River- a hit at the GEMS Festival

from the NY TIMES...September 30, 2008 - BaroQue Across the River, a Brooklyn group, opened the concert with two elegant French cantatas — Rameau’s “Impatience” and Montéclair’s “Ariane et Bacchus” — to which Michèle Eaton brought a sumptuous tone, a keen dramatic sense and striking agility in the ornamental vocal scoring.

Kathy McDonald contributed the appealing flute obbligato in the Montéclair, and Arthur Haas, harpsichordist, and Martha McGaughey, on viola da gamba, kept the continuo parts lively and vital.




Congratulations to Kathy, Michèle, Arthur and Martha for a job well done. It was a beautiful concert and the praise was well-deserved. Suzanne Bona, the host of "Sunday Baroque", (seen here with Kathy) emceed the event and did the unimaginable - she was able to get classical musicians to talk about what they do in an intelligent and meaningful fashion!! No small feat, Suzanne!! Thanks to Ron Hatem for the great photos.



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