MUSIC

Theotokos: The Sacred Music of Luca Marenzio

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024
1:15 PM

Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

Free
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Doug Balliett’s Theotokos ensemble takes time off from composing and performing a new church cantata every week at St. Mary’s on the Lower East Side to revive the sacred music of a Madrigalist unknown to me but apparently huge in his day. I’m betting on its being pretty great.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Roman Punch: pour 1-1/2 oz. of Bénédictine and Cognac, and 3/4 oz. each of white Overproof Rum and lemon juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Stir. Drink through a straw.