EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Saturday, October 26 at 7:30 PM
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Central Park West and 68th Street
Program Included
C.P.E. Bach: String Symphony in B minor, Wq 182:5 / H661
Maxim Berezovsky: Symphony in C major
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 81 in G major
W.A. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue for strings in C minor, K.546
Anton Reicha: Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and
Violin in G major – First Movement
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding by Frederick Renz of the Early Music Foundation (EMF) and its performance arm, Early Music New York.
This year is also the 20th anniversary of the first citywide New York Early Music Celebration, and the establishment of EMF’s service-to-the-community arm, New York Early Music Central.
In honor of this dual anniversary, EMF is planning the eighth New York Early Music Celebration, the first since 2019. Events are expected to take place throughout the month of October.​
In addition to a special 50th anniversary concert by Early Music New York led by Mr. Renz on Saturday, October 26 at First Church of Christ, Scientist, EMF plans to present a panel discussion about early music in New York over the past 20 years, since the first New York Early Music Celebration, and the future of early music in New York.
Early Music Performance Calendar
Concerts and events throughout
the New York Area
Early Music Foundation has a new series of performance videos by ensemble members on our YouTube channel, supplemented by enlightening discussions by the artists. Here are the most recent; you can find a list of all our video and audio features in our latest newsletter.
Wind instrumentalist Wayne Hankin provides informative background and commentary to accompany four entertaining and colorful performances of medieval music on such historic instruments as hornpipes, vessel flutes, bagpipes and double pipes.
Keyboardist Dongsok Shin introduces the lautenwerck, also known as a lute-harpsichord, very likely the instrument for which J.S. Bach composed most of the works we have come to know as lute music. He follows his remarks with a performance of Bach's Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in
E-Flat, BWV 998.
Cellist and gambist Sarah Abigael Stone curates and comments upon a series of split-screen videos of Bach Chorales in which she plays all the parts on various cellos, gambas and assorted percussion instruments.
