Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  Boston

Start Date:

  10/18/2026

End Date:

  10/18/2026

Start Time:

  1:30 PM

End Time:

  3:30 PM

Event Info: 

  In conjunction with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's exhibition, ACRONYM presents Esther in the Age of Rembrandt on Sunday, October 18, offering rare performances of three Esther cantatas written during Rembrandt's time. The program includes a work by the remarkable French composer Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, alongside music by Flemish composer Leonora Duarte, Jewish Mantuan composer Salamone Rossi, Giacomo Carissimi, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. ACRONYM will perform with a roster of vocal soloists as special guests: Amanda Forsythe and Teresa Wakim, sopranos Kim Leeds, alto Aaron Sheehan, tenor and Jesse Blumberg, baritone.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Fall 2026 Weekend Concert Series features a ten-concert autumn season curated by Abrams Curator of Music George Steel held on select Sundays from September 13 through November 22, 2026. The fall season showcases world-class artists in the Museum's extraordinary Calderwood Hall-a 300-seat "sonic cube" with three levels of balconies designed so that 80% of seats are front row, creating a uniquely intense and intentional listening experience. Dating to 1927, the Gardner's Weekend Concert Series is the longest running museum music program in the country.

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/acronym-20261018

Location:

  Calderwood Hall

Room:

Address:

  25 Evans Way

Phone:

  617-278-5156

City:

  Boston

State/Province:

  MA