Name: Midtown Concerts • HESPERUS
Start: 2025-10-16T13:15:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-16T14:00:00-04:00
Location: St. Malachy’s Church – The Actors’ Chapel

Midtown Concerts • HESPERUS

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Les Très Riches Heures: A Rich Year of Medieval Improvisation

Tina Chancey ~ vielle, rebec & kamenj
Mark Rimple ~ medieval lute, gittern & voice
Shawn Keener ~ projection design
Oliver Weston ~ projectionist

HESPERUS celebrates its reincarnation as an early music improv collective with a program of twelve medieval improvisations inspired by a dozen manuscript illuminations from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Tina Chancey and Mark Rimple present a varied program spanning the high Middle Ages through the dawn of the Renaissance, enhanced by slides and other whimsy by Shawn Keener, ably brought to life by Oliver Weston.

“Engaging stage presence, backed by programs put together with exceptional imagination…irresistible!” (Washington Post). Since 1979, Hesperus has connected curious modern audiences to the rich musical past through collaborations with film, dance, mime, theater and world music. Hesperus has toured Europe and the Far East; performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center; and recorded over a dozen CDs and DVDs.

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Date Thursday, October 16, 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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