Myth:
Stories from Oral Traditions

September 19, 20, & 21, 2025

Fairy tales, myths, and legends provide inspiration for musical retellings based on oral traditions. Joined by narrator Erin Hall, Repast recounts stories from English folklore, Greek mythology, Irish seanchaí, Ethiopian oduu durii, and French opéra féerie told through music from the 17th and 18th centuries by Bach, Bernier, Mascitti, Arne, Lampe, and Riddell. 

Erin Hall, narrator
Natalie Rose Kress, violin
Sarah Stone, viola da gamba
Stephanie Corwin, bassoon
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord

Friday, September 19
Queens

Saturday, September 20 at 3 pm
Brooklyn Heights

Sunday, September 21 at 3 pm
Upper East Side

Science Fiction:
The New Music of the Spheres

November 22 & 23, 2025

Commencing with a love-sick cry to the stars in Monteverdi’s madrigal Sfogava con stelle, this collaborative program between new music Ensemble Ipse and early music group Repast Baroque explores themes of novelty and innovation spanning from the 16th-century philosophy of music of the spheres to Science Fiction and technology of our modern age alongside new works by Molly Herron, Judith Berkson, Joseph Di Ponio, Stephanie Griffin, and Max Duykers.

Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 pm
The DiMenna Center
Manhattan

Sunday, November 23 at 4 pm
First Unitarian Congregational Society
Brooklyn Heights

Classics:
Robin Hood and King Arthur

March 27, 28, & 29, 2026

 Profiling two English folk heroes, King Arthur and Robin Hood, Repast is joined by the chivalrous bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton. Legendary King Arthur and his circle of gallant knights hold court with Dibdin’s The institution of the Garter, or Arthur's Round Table restored (1745) and Purcell’s King Arthur (1691). Robin Hood, a rebel hero of broadside ballads and Shield’s comic opera Robin Hood (1784), comes through as the people’s champion.

Paul Max Tipton, bass-baritone
Natalie Rose Kress and Shelby Yamin, violins
Sarah Stone, cello
Stephanie Corwin, bassoon
Adam Cockerham, theorbo
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord

Friday, March 27
Queens

Saturday, March 28 at 3 pm
Brooklyn Heights

Sunday, March 30 at 3 pm
Upper East Side

Adventure:
The Iron Mask

 May 29, 30 & 31, 2026

Repast creates a new live score for the film The Iron Mask (1929), based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. The final chapter in the D’artangian trilogy, the film follows the Three Musketeers as they return from retirement to save Louis XIV from his illegitimate twin who attempts to usurp the French throne. Music by Lully, Jacquet de La Guerre, Marais, Charpentier,  Couperin, Praetorius, DuCaurroy, Boesset, and Caroubel.

Natalie Rose Kress and Rebecca Nelson, violins
Sarah Stone and Caroline Nicolas, violas da gamba
Stephanie Corwin, bassoon
Kevin Payne, theorbo
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord

Friday, May 29
Queens

Saturday, May 30 at 3 pm
Brooklyn Heights

Sunday, May 31 at 3 pm
Upper East Side