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Baroque Quintessence!

August 20th - 24th, 2026

Sponsored by: Sponsored by Gary Kunis & Connie Wong

SUBSCRIPTION SERIES: Admission & priority seating are included with your Season Subscription.

This special program with Baroque Music Montana, replete with viola richness and centered around some of the most achingly beautiful French music of the Baroque, will have you hitting the dance floor in style (no actual dancing, unless you *really* want to), gasping at the sight of a ludicrously fake ennoblement ceremony (ceremony not visually depicted), and holding back tears at the yearning of star-crossed lovers (star-crossed lovers encouraged!). You won't believe your ears as the harmonies grow richer and richer. You won't believe your eyes when not one, not two, but *three* violas appear onstage. Join us for this spectacular program to end our 2025-26 concert season.

Program design by Kyle Miller

Artists

Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Manami Mizumoto & Kyle Miller & Max Mandel, baroque viola
Joe Crouch, baroque cello
Lucas Farris, theorbo

Program

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43 (1670) by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Sonata No. 5 in G Major from Armonico Tributo (1682) by Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Sonate à huit, H. 548 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Suite from Dardanus (1739/1744) by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)