Meet four rehabilitated raptors – and one groundhog – up close and personal! The birds of prey will include one or more species of owl, hawk, vulture and/or falcon. Learn how each bird had been injured & rehabilitated by the Rescue Center to become a wildlife ambassador to help humans learn how raptors live in the wild and how to coexist with them. You’ll also meet education animal Allen McButterpants, a groundhog who is very popular with children!

The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center is Eastern Long Island’s ONLY Wildlife Hospital, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the rescue, medical rehabilitation, and release of native wildlife on the East End of Long Island. The Center opened its doors in 2000. The Wildlife Rescue Center receives over 10,000 calls each year for information or assistance with wild animal encounters. They are open 365 days a year and are available on call 24 hours a day.

AGE: For Adults and Children of All Ages

WEATHER: Fair weather, only. Rain date to be announced.

SPECIAL NOTES: Some seating provided. Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Not required.

LE REMEDE DE FORTUNE 
Medieval French Songs
of Fate, Fortune & Fin’ amor

MUSIC
Guillelme de Machaut
and a selection of troubadour and trouvère songs

featuring

Concordian Dawn
Medieval Ensemble

Amber Evans, soprano and percussion
Clifton Massey, countertenor
Niccolo Seligmann, vielle and percussion
Christopher Preston Thompson, director, tenor and medieval harp

Rain date is scheduled for July 14th at 5:00pm

The redaction of Machaut’s Le Remede de Fortune that Concordian Dawn will present, the lyric narrative is set in public spaces within and outside a court in 14th-century France.

At a certain point, one of the main characters retreats to a vegetation-filled garden to isolate himself from everyone else. A personified Esperance visits him while in this garden, and a good bit of the story takes place there. Two more of the songs take place on the journey back to the court. The first of the songs could take place anywhere, and the last song takes place back at the court. This lyric narrative certainly is perfectly resonating in the natural setting such as the Landcraft Garden. The main illuminated manuscript that transmits the piece is full of illuminations in a garden and full of nature.

We invite the audience to arrive at 4:00pm to visit the garden and enjoy the beauty of the natural landscape. 

The concert is a 5:00pm outdoors on the main lawn of the Landcraft Garden. You will find chairs on the lawn to listen to the concert.  It is highly recommended to bring a hat to cover yourself from the sun while waiting for the sunset and to enjoy listening to the music.

A tasting menu presented by the chef Martine Abitbol with several bite-sized dishes immediately after the concert will be offered to all concert attendees. 

The tasting menu is inspired by the Medieval Culinary degustation with a focus to the flavors of the earth and culinary art.

​Music Program
Repertoire, all from medieval French manuscripts, includes:
Trouvère songs (13th century)
Medieval instrumental dances (13th century)
Ars antiqua polyphonic motets (13th century)
Le Remède de Fortune by Guillaume de Machaut (1300-77)
* Lay, “Qui n’aroit autre deport”
* Complainte, “Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure”
* Chant Royale, “Joye, plaisance, et douce nourreture”
* Balladelle, “En amer a douce vie”
* Ballade, “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient”
* Virelai, “Dame, a vous sans retollir”
* Rondelet, “Dame, mon cuer en vous remaint”