Name: Midtown Concerts • Hesperus
Start: 2025-02-20T13:15:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-20T14:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Malachy’s Church – The Actors’ Chapel

Midtown Concerts • Hesperus

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O Italia! Celebrating the Codex Faenza

Tina Chancey ~ director, vielles, rebec & menj
Barbara Hill ~ voice & percussion
Dan Meyers ~ recorders, douçaines & percussion
Cameron Welke ~ lute

Hesperus celebrates its reincarnation as an Early Music Improv Collective with a program spotlighting the largest surviving collection of instrumental pieces before 1450, the Faenza Codex. The concert will feature performances of ten of the original French, Italian and English original pieces, their ornamented Faenza versions, and the musicians’ own improvisations in Faenza Codex-style.

“Engaging stage presence, backed by programs put together with exceptional imagination…irresistible!” (The Washington Post). Since 1979, Hesperus has been making connections between the rich musical past and curious contemporary audiences through its collaborations with film, dance, mime, theater, and world music. In April 2024, Hesperus reincarnated as an Early Music Improv Collective — 15 specialists in Medieval through Baroque “spontaneous composition”.

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Date Thursday, February 20, 2025Time 1:15 PMVenue St. Malachy’s Church – The Actors’ Chapellocation/directions 239 West 49th Street, New York, NY Price Free

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St. Malachy’s Church, 239 West 49th Street, Manhattan
Thursdays, 1:15–2:00 pm

All concerts are free.
No tickets or reservations are necessary.

Venue is fully accessible. For patrons with walkers and wheelchairs, there is an elevator from street level, or there are ten steps from street level to the sanctuary level. There is an elevator from street level or sanctuary level to restrooms on the basement level.

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