Join us for a unique musical experience inspired by the recent conservation of the MFA’s 17th-century Spanish tabernacle, featuring St. Pete Baroque, an ensemble dedicated to giving new life to old masterpieces, giving a voice to newly discovered works, and bringing audiences the eccentric and improvisatory nature of baroque music.
The Baroque Period lasted the longest in western musical culture and spanned roughly 150 years, from 1600-1750. Yet we hear so little of it in contemporary concert halls. Most of this music was for small ensembles with unique instruments before the standardization of the orchestra that we know today. This was a flourishing point in history when cultures and ideas began to collide rapidly. The violin family had only just been invented while many instruments of the old world (harpsichord, lute, viola da gamba, viola d’amore, and baroque winds) were still widely used. You can expect to see bizarre and rare instruments in St. Pete Baroque’s performances, as they perform on period instruments and seek to capture music in the present as it was many years ago.
$15 for MFA Members; $30 for Not-Yet-Members