Overview
The St. Augustine Music Festival is a series of six free concerts held throughout two weekends in the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The concerts take place Friday-Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with a different performance each evening. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine. 904-342-5175 www.staugustinemusicfestival.org
Schedule of Events:
Chamber Music, Friday, June 21, 2024 “Evolution”
Telemann Sinfonia Spirituosa in D major
Bach double featuring Nigel Armstrong and Gabriella Peña
Ginastera Concerto for Strings
Encore: Astor Piazzolla - Tres Minutos con la Realidad
Chamber Music, Saturday, June 22 “Mystic Latin”
H. Villa-Lobos: Sexteto Místico - Mystic Sextet
Flute, Oboe, Alto-Sax, Guitar, Harp, Celesta.
Gabriela Lena Frank - Quijotadas for String Quartet
Georg Philipp Telemann, Don Quixote Suite (St. Continuo)
Manuel De Falla: “'El Amor Brujo” for Piano Sextet (1926)
Encore: Piazzolla Oblivion
Chamber Orchestra, Sunday, June 23 “Mozart and Americana”
William Grant Still: Enganga for Harp, Strings Quintet and Piano
Arthur Foote: Suite in E major for String Orchestra ”
Mozart: Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra in C major, K 299
This Spanish Colonial Renaissance cathedral was built in 1797 and then reconstructed in the late 1880s. It symbolizes the nation's oldest diocese.