Calendar of Cultural Events

Please verify dates and times with The Kosciuszko Foundation Director of Cultural Affairs
Tom Pniewski -- (212) 734-2130 ext. 214

Polish Baroque Music by Rebel Orchestra
Sunday, February 20 at 3 PM, Tickets are $20
Chamber Music Series

The Rebel Baroque Orchestra performs Sunday, February 20 at 3 PM at the Kosciuszko Foundation (15 East 65th Street, between Fifth and Madison). Their program is titled "Fire, Form, and Fantasy: 17th Century Polish, Italian and German Music " and includes music for strings, lute, harpsichord and organ. Rarely-heard compositions by Marini, Rossi, Rosenmüller, Schmelzer, Mielciewski, Szarzynski, Jarzebski will tell a musical tale of three cultures featuring beguiling and beautiful music played on period instruments.

Hailed by the New York Times as "Sophisticated and Beguiling" and praised by the Los Angeles Times for their "astonishingly vital music-making," the New York-based ensemble REBEL (pronounced "Re-bel") has earned an impressive international reputation, enchanting diverse audiences by their unique style and their virtuosic, highly expressive and provocative approach to the Baroque and Classical repertoire.
Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), REBEL was originally formed in The Netherlands in l99l. The most aired American Baroque ensemble in the U.S., REBEL has been regularly featured on NPR and on numerous local radio stations across the country., and has recorded numerous CDs.

The REBEL Baroque Orchestra first gained international recognition in 2001 for its performance of Mozart's Requiem with Trinity Choir, broadcast nationally over National Public Radio in memoriam of the victims of September 11.

Tickets are $20, and include a reception with the orchestra following the concert. For additional information and reservations, call the Foundation Office at (212) 734-2130.

All events take place at the Foundation House, unless otherwise noted. Programs subject to change. Click here for directions.

Kosciuszko Foundation programs are supported by the Mary F. Koons Charitable Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Tadeusz Solowij Literary Fund, and the KF Cultural Fund.