From our “Tanzwut 1518” program about the famous dancing plague, in which hundreds of people began dancing in the streets one summer and couldn’t stop.

16th-century Swiss music and texts are woven together in this dramatic storytelling concert for all ages, in which a group of farmers recount Wilhelm Tell's famous demonstration of courage against tyranny.

Dance music from the 16th-century Upper Rhine (“Tanzwut 1518” program), performed by Holly Scarborough, Marc Lewon, Grace Newcombe, and Elizabeth Sommers

Zweigulden’s ecstatic interpretation of this victorious German Easter hymn is based on an event in 1474 in Alsace, when the melody was sung with a new text to celebrate the overthrow and beheading of a tyrannical Burgundian governor, Pierre de Hagenbach.