Music Before 1800 presents QUICKSILVER, 11/19

Music Before 1800 continues its 43rd season with Quicksilver. The NYC-based ensemble returns to MB1800 in an exploration of 17th-century 'curiosities.'

NYC's longest-running early music series Music Before 1800 continues its 43rd season on Sunday, November 19 at 4PM at Corpus Christi Church with Quicksilver. The NYC-based early music supergroup presents Wonderchamber: A Cabinet of Musical Curiosities from the 17th Century.

The program explores the 17th-century trend of the "curiosity cabinet." As rulers and aristocrats competed to fill their "cabinets of wonder" with expensive curiosities: one-of-a-kind ethnographic, archaeological, or natural objects, this same sense of curiosity in the pursuit of the unique was embraced by 17th-century composers. Composers like Castello, Biber, Weckmann, and Uccelini created musical wonders that stretched the limits of harmonic convention.

QUICKSILVER
Wonderchamber: A Cabinet of Musical Curiosities from the 17th Century
Sunday, November 19, 4PM
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street
Tickets: $10-50
212-666-9266 / www.mb1800.org
Quicksilver

MB1800, a NYC institution, is the city's longest-running series devoted exclusively to early music. Since the series' inception, concerts have been presented at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights, giving audiences a uniquely satisfying experience. The 2017-18 season places an emphasis on choral music (especially Renaissance), welcoming back esteemed vocal ensembles Stile Antico, Blue Heron, and Cappella Pratensis. Series debuts will be made by exciting NYC ensembles LeStrange Viols and House of Time.

Louise Basbas
Louise Basbas is the founder and director of the series. The New Yorker praised MB1800, calling it "the essential series." Time Out New York remarked: "The resonant acoustics of Corpus Christi Church will deliver you into your own personal solitude.... Few other venues can claim this fusion of strong programming and quality auditory surroundings."

Music Before 1800 is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. MB1800 is also supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.