Arcadia Players - New England's Period Instrument Ensemble

Arcadia Players embraces 
historical performance 
practice to illuminate 
and invigorate the 
great Western heritage 
of vocal and 
instrumental music.

2019-2020 Concert Season

Thirtieth Anniversary Concert
Sunday, October 13, 2019, 3:00PM
Abbey Chapel
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Arcadia Players' 30th Anniversary Season opens in the magnificent setting of Abbey Chapel at Mount Holyoke College. Organist and special guest artist Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Arcadia Players Founder/Director Emerita, will perform a concert of Baroque masterpieces on the great C. B. Fisk Opus 84 instrument, designed and built for the performance of Renaissance and Baroque organ repertoire. 
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Handel's ​Messiah
Friday, December 13, 2019, 7:30PM
Our Lady of the Valley Church
Easthampton, MA

This year's version of our iconic performance of Handel's Messiah will include a new venue (Our Lady of the Valley in Easthampton, a performance space with many resemblances both visual and acoustic, to the beloved St. Mary's in Northampton) and a new conductor. Woodrow Bynum, who has performed with Arcadia on many occasions over the years as both soloist and conductor, will lead this performance with The Cathedral Choir and Men and Boys of Albany.
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Arcadia Viols
Sunday, February 23, 2020, 3:00PM
Wesley United Methodist Church, Hadley, MA

Arcadia Viols will return to grace the stage of Wesley Church, known for its viol-friendly acoustic. They will bring tenor Daniel Carberg and baritone Matthew Leese from Keene, NH to enliven songs from the 16th-century courts of Henry VIII, Isabella d'Este, and Maximilian I.
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Johann Theile's St. Matthew Passion
Originally scheduled for Sunday, March 29 2020, has been rescheduled to March 28, 2021.​​​

Sunday, March 29, 2020, 7:30PM​
Our Lady of the Valley Parish
Easthampton, MA

Our final concert will be devoted the German 17th-century composer Johann Theile, whose elegant setting of the Passion text from Matthew predates that of J. S. Bach. Arcadia instrumentalists will be joined once again by the singers of the Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble, under the direction Dr. Tony Thornton.

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