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Exodus & Evolution

Hebrew Senior Life 100 Centre St., Brookline

One family, a hundred years of musical excellence! A multigenerational family of Jewish musicians, the Lupo’s exodus from Iberia, migration to Northern Italy, and recruitment to England coincided with key developments in the evolution of the viol and the flourishing of its associated repertoire. Join us in celebrating the Lupo's with music spanning over a century, […]

Special Event: Exodus & Evolution at La Voile

La Voile 1627 Beacon St, Brookline

One family, a hundred years of musical excellence! A multigenerational family of Jewish musicians, the Lupo’s exodus from Iberia, migration to Northern Italy, and recruitment to England coincided with key developments in the evolution of the viol and the flourishing of its associated repertoire. Join us in celebrating the Lupo's with music spanning over a century, […]

$50

Guest Presentation at UMass Amherst

Lyracle will present in an early music history course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst taught by Professor Emiliano Ricciardi, whose Tasso in Music Project aided in the curation of our program, "Molza: Music for a Muse." We'll perform a few excerpts from the program and use them as a spring board to engage with […]

Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy

North Bennet Street School 150 North St, Boston

In 1582, four teenage Japanese boys of noble birth set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon. They were students at the Jesuit school in Kyushu and were sent on a tour of Italy and Iberia as ambassadors of three Japanese daiymo, or feudal lords, who had converted to Christianity. Known collectively as the Tenshō Embassy, their […]

$10 – $15

Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy

United First Parish Church 1306 Hancock St, Quincy

In 1582, four teenage Japanese boys of noble birth set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon. They were students at the Jesuit school in Kyushu and were sent on a tour of Italy and Iberia as ambassadors of three Japanese daiymo, or feudal lords, who had converted to Christianity. Known collectively as the Tenshō Embassy, their […]

$10 – $15

Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy

Logan Center Performance Hall 915 E 60th St, Chicago

This Early Music program celebrates the musical accomplishments of Japanese students at Jesuit missionary schools in Japan (1549–1613) who became accomplished viol players and singers. European Jesuits ran the schools where music was considered essential learning. Although surviving accounts by the Jesuits about the mission in Japan are laden with racism and eurocentrism, the students […]

Lecture-Demonstration

Logan Center Performance Penthouse 915 E 60th St, Chicago

Classical music concerts often center around a particular composer, canonical masterwork, or geographical compositional style. Consequently, today’s programs celebrate a relatively small group of composers, and we miss opportunities to approach music in ways that incorporate a broader range of music-making experiences by a diverse range of music-makers. Curating concert programs to focus on people who, […]

Musick’s Recreation

Redwood Library & Athenaeum 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport

Historic houses help us imagine what home life for some people in colonial New England might have looked like, but what might it have sounded like? Find out at this performance of historical music ensemble Lyracle’s program, Musick’s Recreation. In this program, Lyracle focuses on a few documented viol players in colonial New England as […]

Musick’s Recreation

Historic Wicks House 55 Palmer Ave, Falmouth

Historic houses help us imagine what home life for some people in colonial New England might have looked like, but what might it have sounded like? Find out at this performance of historical music ensemble Lyracle’s program, Musick’s Recreation. In this program, Lyracle focuses on a few documented viol players in colonial New England as […]

At Home in Sweden

United First Parish Church 1306 Hancock St, Quincy

Welcome the sweater weather and cozy up with tea and cookies to enjoy music and dance for a Swedish living room!

$10 – $20

At Home in Sweden

Somerville Music Spaces 1060 Broadway, Somerville

Welcome the sweater weather and cozy up with tea and cookies to enjoy music and dance for a Swedish living room! We'll explore how music from 17th-century Europe's courts, theatres, churches, and street corners all made its way into the very same pages where it delighted communities of friends and family in Sweden's living rooms. […]

$10 – $20

Guest Presentation at UMass Amherst

University of Masscahusetts Amherst

Lyracle will present in an early music history course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst taught by Professor Emiliano Ricciardi, whose Tasso in Music Project aided in the curation of our program, "Molza: Music for a Muse." We'll perform a few excerpts from the program and use them as a spring board to engage with […]