June 6, 2013
5 – 9 pm, $5; Free for members
Wear Renaissance clothing and get in free!
Attention all Ladies and Lords, go “Medieval” during our annual outdoor block party. Jugglers, jesters, minstrels and more will be on hand to amuse and delight. Take a tour of the Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy exhibition and participate in a hands on art activity. The Museum Café will be open for dinner (reservations suggested). Film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Join us the first Thursday of every month for extended exhibition hours, cocktails, music, art-making activities, a film and more!
June 16, 2013
Father’s Day: DANA LAUREN’S Heart Belongs To Daddy! –with Sam Parker-piano
Three seatings available: 10am, 11:30am or 1pm.
Purchase tickets online here.
Tickets include museum admission, jazz, brunch & complimentary Bloody Mary or Mimosa.
June 16, 3 and 5pm
Lecture and Concert: Venit lumen: Music in the Age of Caravaggio
Eric Rice, Artistic Director, Connecticut Early Music Festival/ Associate Professor of Music, University of Connecticut, will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 3pm on the ways the Caravaggisti and musicians of the Baroque era shaped their works using drama and contrast. Lecture is free and open to the public.
The Connecticut Early Music Ensemble will perform music of the Baroque era in the museum’s Morgan Great Hall at 5pm, featuring sacred and secular music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Gesualdo, Marenzio, Monteverdi, and others. $30/$25 Members: (860) 439-2787 (Tickets required for concert only).
This program is sponsored by the Connecticut Early Music Society as part of the Connecticut Early Music Festival.
