Background

  • "Intriguing...nuanced, witty, and incisive...The Harlem Chamber Players offer sparkling, taut performances."

    The New York Times

  • "Whimsical, entertaining, and eye-opening… It unfolded cinematically…enhanced by a hilarious bit of puppetry."

    Cincinnati Business Courier

  • Effortless Perfection.

    The Observer

  • Barclay’s play has one specifically modern-day goal: participating musicians must join the National Alliance for Audition Support, which provides audition grants for Black and Latino musicians, who have been mostly or entirely absent from European and American concert stages.

    Opera News

  • "Barclay's direction, a combination of surrealness and tenderness spelled by rustic comedy, were decidedly convincing, and the audience readily responded."

    Shepherd Express

  • Music Before 1800 is the longest running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music at Corpus Christi Church for over 45 years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical. Offering artists of the highest caliber, we present audience favorites as well as rising stars. Our artists, including New York’s finest ensembles, come from across the United States, Canada and Europe.

    Our mission is to present programming by outstanding international, national and local early music groups in an acoustically and aesthetically superb setting.

  • Music Before 1800 is the longest running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music at Corpus Christi Church for over 45 years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical. Offering artists of the highest caliber, we present audience favorites as well as rising stars. Our artists, including New York’s finest ensembles, come from across the United States, Canada and Europe.

    Our mission is to present programming by outstanding international, national and local early music groups in an acoustically and aesthetically superb setting.

  • Music Before 1800 is the longest running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music at Corpus Christi Church for over 45 years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical. Offering artists of the highest caliber, we present audience favorites as well as rising stars. Our artists, including New York’s finest ensembles, come from across the United States, Canada and Europe.

    Our mission is to present programming by outstanding international, national and local early music groups in an acoustically and aesthetically superb setting.