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The slideshow above comprises just a small selection of the ensembles and artists we serve. Click the button at right to join our mailing list to receive our semi-monthly "Notes on the Scene" newsletter covering news and upcoming events.

In connection with the introduction of products based on their original 18th-century botanical formulations, the American personal care products company Caswell-Massey, founded in 1752, is partnering with GEMS to help us promote our 10th Anniversary. We share a common endeavor of bringing the best of 18th-century artistic expressions to modern audiences!
FEATURED EVENTS
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Feb 1 at 8pm - Abendmusik
Oh Susanne! Susanne and the Elders, is the biblical apocrypha of a strong woman threatened with rape by two men, judicial elders, who give her a choice. She must either lie with them both or be exposed as an adulterer. Susanne chooses protes...Feb 2 at 7:30pm - Opera Lafayette
Alessandro Scarlatti’s Erminia and Francesco Geminiani’s La forêt enchantée (The Enchanted Forest)Opera Lafayette pairs baroque opera & kuchipudi dance in an evening of poetry and love with the American premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti’...Feb 27 at 6pm - Ars Longa
Baroque Music from Cuba and the New World On their second U.S. tour, Cuban early music ensemble Ars Longa presents "Baroque Music from Cuba and the New World," a program centered around villancicos of celebrated eighteenth century Cuban maestro de c...
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NEWS
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Congratulations to Shirley Hunt & Pomerium
Congratulations to Shirley Hunt, Director of Booking and Artist Representation for GEMS Live!, and Alexander Blachly, Director of Pomerium, for fulfilling the first booking negotiated by Shirley in her tenure at GEMS: Sunday, October 29th's c...Tickets for sale!Tickets are now for sale on our website for the following concerts/series: ARTEK 2017-2018 Season Martin Bernstein Recital Parthenia 2017-2018 Season Pomerium - October 22 at 3pm Trinity Church Wall Street's Messiah, December 15-17, 2017...Paul Ross retires from Operations Manager position after 10 years
After 10 years of dedicated service at near pro bono compensation rates(!) Paul Ross is retiring from his position as Operations Manager at GEMS. He has been invaluable to GEMS and the entire early music community, providing affordable and ca...GEMS Receives Grant from Howard Gilman Foundation
We are pleased and honored to report that we have been awarded a grant by the Howard Gilman Foundation in support of the 20th anniversary of Midtown Concerts. This series of 41 weekly concerts, which is free and open to the general public, features b...

