2024–2025 Season
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Sunday, August 10, 2025, 5PM
Florilegium musicum Musical Flowers of the Renaissance and Baroque Untermyer Gardens Conservancy 945 North Broadway Yonkers, NY 10701 Renaissance theorist Marchetto da Padua claimed his music treatise Pomerium (“The Fruit Tree,” late 14th century) contained the “flowers and fruits” of the art of music. The sensuousness of a floral bouquet similarly inspired Pierre Phalèse to publish a collection of diverse musical gems in Antwerp in 1602, which he titled the Florilegium sacrarum cantionum. Today’s program explores Renaissance and Baroque music with a relationship to nature, and the composers who sought flora’s ultimate allegorical expression: in sound. Featuring Jude Ziliak, violin James Kennerley, harpsichord Elizabeth Weinfield, viola da gamba Presented by the Minnie Untermyer Concert Series. |
Clara Peeters, A Bouquet of Flowers, ca. 1612, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 7PM These Distracted Times Music During the English Civil Wars Columbia University St. Paul's Chapel 1160 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 Free admission How to Attend: Registration Required for in-person attendance (by 11am on Mon 4/28) Also free to stream on YouTube (no registration required) |
Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England (1609-1669) c. 1636 to 1638, San Diego Museum of Art
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Monday, February 20, 2025, 6PM A Sound of Her Own Music in the Time of the Estrado The Hispanic Society Museum & Library 3741 Broadway (btw W155th/W156th Sts) New York, NY 10032 Free admission — register here |
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Join us for a special concert at The Hispanic Society inspired by the exhibition, “A Room of her Own," on the estrado, or salon, in the Spanish and Hispanic world. The program will feature a short pre-concert discussion between Elizabeth Weinfield and Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack, curator of the exhibition, before the concert.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, A Dance in the Country, ca. 1755
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1980.67)
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This program features music written by composers forced to hide their identities—social, religious, ethnic, racial, or otherwise—during their lifetime. We will consider the beauty of William Byrd (1540–1623) and Richard Dering (c. 1580–1630), two Catholic composers writing illicit church music in Protestant England; Leonora Duarte (1610–78), a Jewish woman composing in the home while forced to live as a converso, or New Christian, in 17th-century Antwerp; Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), whose lost works reemerge with a vengeance in our own time; and others.
This concert is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.