Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is set to host the 11th annual Festival of the Guild for Early Music, featuring performances by regional ensembles will include Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, both vocal and instrumental and will take place all afternoon on Sunday, October 18, 2015. Festival Hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m and GFS is open from 10 a.m. to 6 pm.
Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is set to host the 11th annual Festival of the Guild for Early Music, featuring concerts of music from the 12th through the 18th century. Performances by regional ensembles will include Medieval, Renais-sance, and Baroque music, both vocal and instrumental and will take place all afternoon on Sunday, October 18, 2015. Festival Hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m and GFS is open from 10 a.m. to 6 pm.
The program begins with a discussion of early music performance presented by Lewis Baratz, host of WWFM’s Well-Tempered Baroque. The opening youth concert is by members of the Princeton Girlchoir. For the first time, Radiance Ensemble, an instrumental group, will perform.
This year’s program includes 14 ensembles, both instrumental and vocal. The mini-concerts will take place within two galleries in the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts: the West Gallery, exhibiting Robert Lobe: In the Forest of Drawn Metal featuring Forest Projects, Collaborative Works with Kathleen Gilje and the East Gallery exhibiting Jae Ko: Selections, featuring Force of Nature, Shiro. The instrumental ‘petting zoo’ is open to all ages will take place simultaneously in the adjacent auditorium, with strolling performers outdoors in the gardens, weather permitting.
This year’s Festival theme is “Ebb and Flow” and sculpture tours featuring works inspired by this theme are offered without additional charge during the afternoon. As always, WWFM, The Classical Network hosts will introduce the performers and greet their audiences.
The Guild for Early Music, Inc. is a public charitable consortium of music ensembles of central New Jersey and neighboring Pennsylvania. It seeks to foster appreciation of early music and to encourage professional and amateur musicians and ensembles. For information about the Guild for Early Music, visit www.guildforearlymusic.org.
Admission to the festival is free with paid admission to the park: $15 Adults 18-64; $12 Seniors; $10 Students 6-17; Members and Children 5 and under are free.
