Welcome to our 2024-2025 Season
Feast Days
Inspired by our name, which embodies a sumptuous meal, Repast Baroque presents the 2024-2025 season as a fête of Feast Days with four programs celebrating and observing holidays through music.
The season opens with Harvest Festival, a program depicting rustic life and pastoral amusements. Aisslinn Nosky (violin) and Kevin Devine (hurdy-gurdy) join Repast for vibrant works of the French baroque, including Nicolas Chédeville’s arrangement of “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
November welcomes Saint Cecilia’s Day, on which we celebrate the patron saint of musicians, poets, composers, and instrument builders. With acclaimed soprano Sonya Headlam and violinists Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro and Ravenna Lipchik, Repast presents a pastiche ode in honor of Saint Cecilia, including music by Purcell, Handel, Festing, and Eccles.
Beware the Ides of March! Repast curates the story of Julius Caesar through the instrumental music of George Frideric Handel and the 1908 silent film Julius Caesar from Brooklyn's own Vitagraph Company of America. Telling tales of Shakespeare, Repast pairs Handel's music with three other films produced in New York City's maverick movie scene (1908-1910). Guest artist Margaret Owens joins Repast on oboe and recorder for an unforgettable pairing of music and New York film history.
During Rosalia, the Festival of Roses, ancient Romans memorialized their ancestors by adorning their tombs with flowers, symbolizing rejuvenation, rebirth, and memory. Soprano Margot Rood, violinist Rebecca Nelson, and theorbist Adam Cockerham join Repast for the closing concert of our season, which embraces love, loss, and remembrance with stunning works by Henry Purcell, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, Marieta Prioli, and Diego Ortiz.
We look forward to celebrating Feast Days with you this season!
