March is Early Music Month. Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network for the first of two Noontime Concerts featuring highlights from the 2016 Guild for Early Music Festival.

Each year, the festival is held at Grounds For Sculpture, the not-for-profit sculpture garden, museum, and arboretum, located in Hamilton, NJ. This year’s festival will take place on the two stages of the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, with possible supplementary performances held outdoors by strolling musicians, weather permitting, this Sunday, March 18, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. To find out more about this year’s Early Music Festival by the Guild for Early Music, look online at guildforearlymusic.org.

Or tune in: I’ll be joined today by Judy Klotz and Patricia Hlafter and on Friday by John Burkhalter and Janet Palumbo – all Guild musicians and board members – as co-hosts for music from the Medieval through Classical Periods. The fun begins today at noon.

Following today’s broadcast concert, stick around for a complete performance of “The Canterbury Pilgrims,” George Dyson’s choral music masterwork inspired by Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” Take a pilgrimage back in time from noon to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Early Music America