Alkemie: Verdant Medicine

"Verdant Medicine" celebrates mystic, medic, and musician Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), a medieval polymath who expanded both Christian theology and the humoral theory of Galen to connect the viriditas (living greenness) of plants and the metaphorical viridity of spirituality directly to the human body and its functioning. This mixed-media concert will include materials that evoke the five senses.

2 performances:
- Thursday, September 26, 6pm at St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University
- Friday, September 27, 7:30pm at All-Saints Episcopal Church

About Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble

Alkemie exists to explore and share the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past. Comprised of singer-performers playing over a dozen instruments (including vielles, harps, psaltery, gittern, recorders, douçaines, and percussion), the ensemble has a particular interest in the porous boundaries between the court and folk music of the Medieval period.