The March 14 Banquet of Baroque concert has been postponed to Thursday, August 13, 2020.

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Program Notes

Concert Etiquette

Banquet of Baroque
Saturday, March 14, 2020
7:30 PM | Wilson Center ​

​Serving up music of Baroque masters Handel and Bach with a side order of selections from Italian and French composers.

This Masterworks concert will feature Bach's   Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. Bach's sonic imagination was seemingly limitless, and for this final concerto he chose to limit the work's instrumentation to strings and continuo, meaning that the only non-bowed instrument heard is the harpsichord.

Chamber Orchestra- All-Baroque Program

• Bach:   Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 
  • ​Music is underwritten by Peter and Gaile Zack
• Handel:   Concerto a Due Cori no. 1 in B-flat 
  • ​Music is underwritten by David Elsbree and Lorraine Gilmore
• Rameau:   Entrée from Les Boréades 
• Bach:   Suite no. 2 in B Minor 
• Corelli:   Concerto Grosso Op. 6 no. 7 

Rameau: Entrée de Polimne from Les Boréades

Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 7

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Directions to Wilson Center
701 N Third Street, Wilmington, NC 28401  |  (910) 362-7999

From I-40:

Follow I-40E into Wilmington and turn right onto US-74 W/Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, heading towards Downtown Wilmington. Continue for 4.7 miles, until MLK Parkway becomes 3rd Street. Turn right turn onto Brunswick St. (please note that 3rd street is closed beyond Brunswick Street), then left on 2nd Street. This will take you directly to the North entrance of the parking deck.  The Center is across Hanover Street from the parking deck.

From Brunswick County:

Take US 74E/76N over the Isabel Holmes Bridge. In .7 miles, merge onto 3rd Street and take first right onto N. Front Street. In .2 miles, turn left onto Hanover Street. The parking deck for visitors to the Center will be located one block ahead, on your right. The Center is directly across Hanover Street from the parking deck.

From Jacksonville:

From US-17S, continue onto I 40 W/US-17 S (follow signs for Interstate 40/Shallotte/ Myrtle Beach).  Continue for 7.4 miles then take exit 14 to merge onto US-17 S/US-421 S . In 3 miles, turn left onto the Isabel Holmes Bridge. Merge onto 3rd Street and take the first right turn onto N. Front Street. In .2 miles, turn left onto Hanover Street. The parking deck for visitors of the Center will be located one block ahead, on your right. The center is across Hanover Street from the parking deck.