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7:30 p.m.

Now, in its 4th decade, AULOS continues to explore new projects and develop outlets for its music-making.  The 2006-7 season saw its first presentation of Handel’s masque Acis and Galatea, done in a version approximating the size of the composer’s vision for the piece—5 singers and 8 instrumentalists without a conductor—and it was a huge hit with presenters, audiences and critics.  The New York Times wrote “In all, it was an utter delight”.  The Ensemble has developed a true chamber orchestra program as well, featuring Handel’s complete Water Music in a performance with between 17 and 23 players.  Where appropriate, AULOS has created residencies in which the group and its guests teach and coach young professionals and then join them in these performances.  And 15 years after the release of their Christmas CD from the Metropolitan Museum, the Ensemble and Julianne Baird collaborated on In Dulci Jubilo, a recording featuring much of the new material uncovered in those many years of Christmas concerts.  This CD was released in the fall of 2006 to critical acclaim, and is the beginning in a new series of recordings in an affiliation with Centaur Records.  Next is AULOS’ unique version of two of Rameau’s wonderful opera suites, Les Indes Galantes and Les Fêtes d’hébé, based on suggestions of the composer in ‘short-score’ manuscripts which will be the first recording ever done in this chamber ensemble setting.

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