…but so is a nasty virus. And so friends, we must postpone our February production, Douce Dame Jolie, the touching love story in verse and music of Guillaume de Machaut, an aging ecclesiastic, and a passionate young poetess. It’s a marvelous tale, and how we want to share it with you! And so we shall, at a later date, once our planet’s health situation improves.

Meanwhile, we are preparing other romantic musical episodes to lighten your days around Saint Valentine’s. Please stay tuned for further announcements!

To tide you over until then, here for your enjoyment is Amours me fait desirer et amer de cuer mais c’est si folettement by Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), performed by the Aziman Ensemble (Anne Azéma; Shira Kammen, harp; Fabio Accurso, lute).

The pictures in the video were taken during a project at the Parker Library in Cambridge, UK; Anne looking in awe at the Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut manuscript; Shira and Fabio rehearsing.