Performances + Events
Boston Early Music Festival Presents: ACRONYM
Jordan Hall
$25 and up
In-Person Event
Open to the Public
Amor Temporalia: Music of Bertali, Schmelzer, Valentini, and others
Returning for their fourth consecutive Festival, the always-engaging instrumentalists of ACRONYM open our week of Festival Concerts with music that testifies to a rare taste for extravagance and novelty. The Holy Roman Empire, until its dramatic defeat by Napoleon, represented one of the greatest consolidations of power and wealth in the history of Europe. For nearly a millennium, the Empire’s purse funded some of the most lavish (and strangest!) art, architecture, and music available across Europe, expressions both of its love of—and its grip on—temporal power. This selection of works commissioned by (or dedicated to) the Empire’s nobility offers a soundscape to the machinations of Empire and a 17th-century expression of amor temporalia.
Please reach out to BEMF's Box Office with any questions regarding programming or ticketing details for the 2025 Festival at 617-661-1812.
Returning for their fourth consecutive Festival, the always-engaging instrumentalists of ACRONYM open our week of Festival Concerts with music that testifies to a rare taste for extravagance and novelty. The Holy Roman Empire, until its dramatic defeat by Napoleon, represented one of the greatest consolidations of power and wealth in the history of Europe. For nearly a millennium, the Empire’s purse funded some of the most lavish (and strangest!) art, architecture, and music available across Europe, expressions both of its love of—and its grip on—temporal power. This selection of works commissioned by (or dedicated to) the Empire’s nobility offers a soundscape to the machinations of Empire and a 17th-century expression of amor temporalia.
Please reach out to BEMF's Box Office with any questions regarding programming or ticketing details for the 2025 Festival at 617-661-1812.
Artist(s)
Chloe Fedor, Edwin Huizinga, Johanna Novom, Adriane Post & Beth Wenstrom, violin
Cynthia Black, viola
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, viola da gamba & lirone
Loren Ludwig, viola da gamba & colascione
Paul Dwyer, violoncello
Doug Balliett, violone
Elliot Figg, harpsichord & organ
Dan Swenberg, theorbo
