The Sebastian Ensemble played an intimate concert in Ballroom Marfa’s north gallery. The Sebastian Ensemble — with Stephen Redfield on violin; Susan Patrick, harpsichord; and Katie Rietman, cello — is a group dedicated to the performance of Baroque chamber music on original instruments at low pitch. 

Their evening-length program served as an aural reflection of the art works from The El Paso Museum of Art’s concurrent ’s Golden Age exhibition. The composers of these lived and worked in the countries and within the cultures, even among the very artists, featured in the exhibition. Sebastian Ensemble imagined that the musical and visual artists of this period provided inspiration to each other, and that those relationships could be brought to light through this concert. The program featured the music of: Willem de Fesch (Dutch); Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (Flemish); William Byrd (English); Johann Sebastian Bach (Germanic); Jean-Marie LeClaire (French); and Dario Castello (Italian).