The Chamber Music on the Fox concert featuring the multinational, early-music ensemble Black Tulip that had been scheduled for January will now take place Monday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, 307 Cedar Ave. in St. Charles.
“Court, Convent & Stage: Redefining the Early Modern Woman” features works by Francesca Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet De-la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi and other female composers of this timeframe. The program is named for the few places where women composers could find a creative outlet in a male-dominated era.
Tickets are $25 for in-person or virtual viewing and are available at www.chambermusiconthefox.org. Students with a valid student ID qualify for $15 in-person concert tickets.
Those who had tickets to the January dates can:
- Use their ticket at the March 4 concert,
- May exchange their January ticket for a virtual ticket for the March 4 performance by emailing info@chambermusiconthefox.org,
- May donate their ticket to Chamber Music on the Fox by emailing info@chambermusiconthefox.org, or
- May request a refund by emailing info@chambermusiconthefox.org.
Black Tulip features soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg, Mirja Lorenz on recorders, Phillip W. Serna on violas da gamba, and Joel Spears on lutes and theorbo.
“Black Tulip is very excited to perform for Chamber Music on the Fox! The Baroque music we perform was written for exactly these kinds of venues that celebrate a direct connection with the audience, musical intimacy, and exciting storytelling through music,” Stoppelenburg said.
Black Tulip’s innovative programming often immerses audiences in vivid and dynamic multi-media experiences, combining dramatic cantatas, songs for solo voice and obbligato instruments, and virtuosic instrumental works for recorders, viols, lutes, and theorbo alongside historical lectures incorporating projected artwork to depict the complex cultural lives of composers and audiences of the 17th and 18th centuries.
—Larkin Lake Strategic Communications