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Textur Festival Family Concert: Machaut's Medieval Miniatures Animated
- When
- Sun Nov 1
- Ages
- All ages
- Price
- Free
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Textur Festival Family Concert: Machaut's Medieval Miniatures Animated
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PerformanceAltstadt Grossbasel
Where
Altstadt Grossbasel, Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum
Ages
All ages
Duration
45 minutes
Setting
Indoors
Music
Live medieval music
Original title
Textur Festival: Reise in die Bilderwelt des Guillaume de Machaut
What you need to know
- Museum tour afterward, a short guided walk through the Musikmuseum led by Eva-Maria Hamberger
- Lunch a short walk away, with Creperie am Kohlenberg about 60 meters from the museum
- Another concert that afternoon: the festival's Codex Calixtinus program plays the same museum at 2:30pm
About
A family concert from Basel's Textur Festival of early music. Ensemble Obsidienne plays live medieval music while more than a hundred miniatures from two 14th-century Guillaume de Machaut manuscripts, held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, are brought to life as projected digital animations. It suits kids who like stories told in pictures, and parents curious about medieval music.
Where it is
Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum
Im Lohnhof 9
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