Art: Opening Saturday at the Norton Museum of Art is New York, New York: The 20th Century, an exhibition from the West Palm Beach museum’s collection of New York scenes, depicted in paintings, photographs, sculptures and works on paper. Among those artists represented are painters Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper and Reginald Marsh, and photographers Bernice Abbott, Diane Arbus and Andreas Feininger. The show runs through Dec. 27. Also, next week's monthly Norton After Dark event is called Halloween Chill, and showing up Thursday night for the 5 p.m.-to-9 p.m. event gets you $1 off admission, which is normally $8 for adults, $3 for ages 13 to 21, and free for ages 12 and under. Visit www.norton.org for more information.

[This entry has been updated to correct a factual error in the caption.] Next week, the Flagler Museum on Palm Beach opens its new exhibit, an examination of the American Arts and Crafts movement called A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from the Two Red Roses Foundation. The Arts and Crafts movement began in the late 1800s and continued into the first decades of the 20th century. Handmade, well-crafted objects, such as furniture, woodblock prints, pottery, stained glass and metalwork, will be on display through Jan. 3. The Flagler Museum is open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and noon until 5:00 p.m., Sunday. Admission is $18 for adults, $10 for youth ages 13-18, $3 for children ages 6-12, and children under six are free. For more information, call the Flagler Museum at (561) 655-2833 or visit www.flaglermuseum.us.

Music: Devotees of Seraphic Fire concerts always ask him, Patrick Dupre Quigley says, when the group is going to do some music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the great 16th-century Italian master of sacred music. Those Renaissance polyphony fans are getting their wish this weekend as the Miami concert choir presents four concerts featuring the Missa Papae Marcelli, perhaps Palestrina’s supreme mass setting. Also on the program: Allegri’s Miserere, and works by Josquin, Constanzo Festa and Dufay. The series started Thursday night in Key Biscayne, and continue tonight at 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist in Coral Gables; 8 p.m. Saturday at All Saints Episcopal in Fort Lauderdale, and 4 p.m. Sunday at Miami Beach Community Church in Miami Beach. Tickets: $35. Call 305-285-9060 or visit www.seraphicfire.org.

At Lynn University on Saturday night, the South Africa-based piano duo of Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães plays classics of the literature including the Second Suite of Rachmaninov (Op. 17), the Paganini Variations of Brahms (Op. 35) and Poland’s Witold Lutoslawski, the Second Suite of the 19th-century Russian composer Anton Arensky, and an arrangement of the Aaron Copland tourist tone poem El Salon Mexico. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, Lynn University, Boca Raton. Tickets: $20; call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

[This entry has been updated to reflect a program change.] On Sunday at the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton, the American pianist Christopher Atzinger, who teaches at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, performs the Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101, of Beethoven, one of the master's last five sonatas. Also on the program is another collection of late music, the Op. 116 Fantasies of Johannes Brahms. 5 p.m. Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Call 929-6633 or visit www.pianolovers.org.

Also Sunday afternoon, the Delray Baroque mini-festival continues with harpsichordist Keith Paulson-Thorp in a program he calls Music for an English Harpsichord. Much of Paulson-Thorp’s program is Baroque -- Handel’s The Harmonious Blacksmith, a suite by C.P.E. Bach and a sonata by Pietro Paradies -- but there are also later works, such as a sonata by Haydn (No. 13 in G, H.XVI/6), a sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni, excerpts from Sir Herbert Howells’ Lambert’s Clavichord, and Tango for Tim, a piece by the contemporary British film composer Michael Nyman. 4 p.m, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Delray Beach. Tickets: $15-$18, $5 for students. Call 278-6003 or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org.

The University of Miami launches its 26th annual Festival Miami tonight, a monthlong celebration that includes big events in jazz, pop and classical music, including a tribute to the late film composer Henry Mancini, whose institute has moved to UM. Tonight’s concert features UM’s Frost Symphony Orchestra in music by Schumann (Scenes From Goethe’s Faust) and Brahms (Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68). The fine pianist Tian Ying solos in the Fifth Piano Concerto (in E-flat, Op. 73, Emperor) of Beethoven; Zoe Zeniodi conducts. 8 p.m. Gusman Hall, Coral Gables. Tickets: $25-$75. Call 305-284-4940 or visit www.festivalmiami.com.

Gearing up for the 200th birth anniversary next year of its guiding spirit, Miami’s Chopin Foundation presents the first two concerts in its season Saturday and Sunday, featuring the 19-year-old American pianist Claire Huangci, a native of Rochester, N.Y., who has just completed her studies at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Huangci will play a piece by J.S. Bach (Partita in C minor, BWV 831) and the quirky Beethoven trifle known as Rage Over a Lost Penny, but the rest of her program is Chopin: The Third Sonata (in B minor, Op. 58), the great Polonaise-Fantaisie (Op. 61), the popular Polonaise in A-flat (Op. 53, Heroic), the Berceuse (in D-flat, Op. 57), and two etudes (Op. 10, No. 2, in A minor, and Op. 25, No. 6, in G-sharp minor). Admission is free; 7 p.m. Saturday, Broward County Main Library in Fort Lauderdale, and 3 p.m. at the Granada Presbyterian Church in Coral Gables. For more information, call 305-858-0624 or visit www.chopin.org.

Finally, there is Paula Cole, the singer-songwriter best known for Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? and I Don't Want to Wait, the theme song for the TV series Dawson's Creek. Cole is in the middle of a national tour that brings her confessional brand of pop to Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center on Saturday night. Tickets: $35; for more information, call 954-462-0222 or visit www.browardcenter.org. – G. Stepanich

The movies generally ignore the population over 55, unless it is to poke fun at the old geezers. But with so many Baby Boomers approaching that age range, they have become a subject of considerable fascination and, perhaps, box office.

The latest documentary on this senior subculture, opening in Palm Beach today, is called Gotta Dance, the lighthearted tale of a group of fish out of water, 60+ agers vying to be chosen for a new dance group formed to entertain the NBA’s New Jersey Nets fans at halftime with hip-hop routines. While there is no direct link between this movie and last year’s Young@Heart, about a senior chorus that sings heavy metal hits, comparisons are inevitable.

Young@Heart had a more dramatic bent, as its chorus members began flirting with mortality as they neared a crucial concert. Gotta Dance -- first seen locally at the Palm Beach International Film Festival -- does not have a similar emotional tug, but it is nevertheless well shot and assembled by director Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway) and contains an ingratiating cast of characters worth rooting for.

The group, dubbed the NETSational Seniors, is chosen after endearingly nerve-wracking auditions, not unlike those in A Chorus Line, except the competitors are strictly amateurs who are completely at sea in the ocean of hip-hop. Still, without too much trauma, 12 women and one courageous guy -- the only male who auditioned -- are chosen and molded into a genial, progressively less awkward dance troupe.

Berinstein tries to generate some suspense over the NETSations’ ability to execute these homeboy moves, particularly in front of a crowd of 19,000 in the Meadowlands Arena. But they are an instant hit with the sports fans in their debut performance and Gotta Dance peaks a bit early.

After their initial triumph, they go on a media blitz of television morning shows, become minor celebrities in print and, briefly, let the attention go to their heads. Still, it is hard not to like, if not relate, to these folks, either current or retired teachers, secretaries, city workers and a few medical professionals. Two of the oldest members of the group, Marge, 83, and Fanny, 81, are grandmothers of Nets cheerleaders who double as the group’s choreographers.

At 95 minutes, Gotta Dance feels a bit overlong, but the appeal of its dancers does not flag.

GOTTA DANCE. Studio: Dramatic Forces; Director: Dori Berinstein; Not rated. Continues through Sunday at Cinema Paradiso, Fort Lauderdale; opening today at Delray Square 18, Delray Square, and Movies of Delray, in Delray Beach; Shadowood 16 in Boca Raton; and Movies of Lake Worth 6 in Lake Worth.

Readers rejoice! The show will go on, sputtering economy notwithstanding. The book show, that is.

All five major South Florida literary festivals – Miami Book Fair International, the Key West Literary Seminar, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, the Boca Festival of the Arts, and Broward’s Lit/Live! – are scheduled to take place over the next five months in more or less their customary glory.

That’s not to say they’ve gone entirely untouched by budget cuts or donor shortfalls. The oldest, biggest and first on the schedule, the Miami Book Fair (Nov. 8-15) finds itself obliged to raise some prices and reduce some programs. No inauguration ceremony, no International Pavilions Village, no Laugh Out Loud Cafe, no Street Fair Parade.

“It will be a more contained fair this year as we have put some favorite components on ‘pause’ until next year,” says Alina Interian, executive director of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. “But we are confident fairgoers will enjoy this year’s program as much as ever.”

The number of writers on hand is being scaled back, too, from last year’s tally of more than 400 to slightly less than 300. Still, the list is an embarrassment of riches, led by the Turkish Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, and former Vice President Al Gore.

Other luminaries include Sherman Alexie, Robert Olen Butler, A. Manette Ansay, Taylor Branch, Brad Gooch, Mary Gordon, Ralph Nader, Meg Cabot, Francine Prose, Iggy Pop, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary Karr, Wally Lamb, Roy Blount Jr. and Mario Van Peebles, to name but a few.

“The Fair this year is very strong in spite of the economic challenges,” says Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books bookstore in Coral Gables, co-founder of the fair. “Our lineup is as strong as ever and we're expecting a very vibrant literary week. We still believe it's still one of the best values around.”

Miami Book Fair International takes place at the Wolfson Campus of Miami-Dade College, 300 NE 2nd Ave., in downtown Miami. For directions and additional information, visit www.miamibookfair.com.

This season the Key West Literary Seminar (Jan. 7-10) celebrates Richard Wilbur, a major American poet and sometime Key West resident like such predecessors as Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill. A former U.S. poet laureate, Wilbur has won nearly every available literary prize.

In addition to Wilbur, the seminar features 21 top poets, among them Billy Collins, Maxine Kumin, Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Mary Jo Salter, Mark Stand and John Tate.

“It’s been a slow pull but we’re out of the woods,” says executive director Miles Frieden. “In a normal year a stellar roster like this would have sold out at least a year in advance. A literary excursion to Key West in January is a luxury, but our audience is passionate, and they’ve come through for us.”

The accompanying writing workshops are full, says Frieden, but a few of the 400 seats for the seminar itself are still open – a rarity for a cozy and intimate literary event that usually sells out by the preceding January.

Oddly enough, Frieden adds, the 2011 seminar, The Hungry Muse: An Exploration of Food in Literature, is already experiencing early demand. “I think we're feeling a very early literary recovery,” Friden adds. “Let's hope the general economy is not far behind.”

For more information, visit www.kwls.org, where you can also find the seminar’s excellent year-round online literary journal, Littoral.

At the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (Jan. 18-23), now in its sixth year, executive director Miles Coon met the economic challenge by taking political action. “The festival was very active in a recent letter-writing campaign that helped persuade the Board of County Commissioners to restore 80 percent of the funding for ‘small and emerging’ cultural organizations like ours,” Coon says.

This year’s slate features Carolyn Forché, Stephen Dobyns, Thomas Lux, Marie Howe, David Wojhan, Kevin Young, Mary Cornish, and Ilya Kaminsky. Workshop participants pay $725 for an advanced program and $525 for an intermediate one. A number of readings are open to the public at $12 general admission, $10 for seniors and $8 for students.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival holds most of its events at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., in downtown Delray Beach. For more information, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

The Festival of the Arts Boca (March 5-13) , an unusual pairing of music and literature, doesn’t have a name quite as gaudy as last year’s Salman Rushdie, but it’s an impressive lineup nonetheless. "Once again, the Festival of the Arts Boca will bring world-class writers to South Florida,” says Susan Resneck Pierce, literary chair.

Those writers are: presidential (and baseball) historian Doris Kearns Goodwin; writer and presidential adviser Richard Goodwin; New York Times pundit David Brooks; scholar and food writer Albert Sonnenfeld; biographer Noel Riley Fitch; and the bestselling literary novelist, Gail Godwin. Tickets go on sale in October. For more information, visit www.centre4artsboca.com.

Literary Feasts, which brings some 20 national and international writers to Fort Lauderdale each March, is still in the planning stages. Set for March 19-20, the program so far includes prize-winning literary novelist Russell Banks, acclaimed popular novelist Elizabeth Kostova, chef and food writer Poppy Tooker, historian R.B. Bernstein and the author and graphic designer Ellen Lupton.

Sponsored by the Broward County Library Foundation and Nova Southeastern University, the Night of Literary Feasts is a society fundraising event to benefit the library. There is also a day of free lectures by the attending writers, open to the public and held at the university’s main campus in Davie.

Many more names will be added to that list. For more information, check the library foundation’s Website, www.literaryfeastonline.org, over the coming months.

Chauncey Mabe, the former books editor of the Sun-Sentinel, can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Visit him on Facebook.

As is often the case, the South Florida jazz season for 2009-2010 involves more quality than quantity. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and the coming season even includes a few pleasant surprises.

Like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, one of New Orleans' leading jazz horn units, playing at one of South Florida's top rock clubs. The veteran band makes a stop on its My Feet Can't Fail Me Now 25th anniversary concert tour by taking the stage at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 17 (8 p.m., $14.99).

Grammy-winning, Cuba-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is another brass master, and he presents his softer side in A Time for Love, a collection of ballads from a forthcoming release on Concord Records. As part of the University of Miami Frost School of Music's Festival Miami 2009, Sandoval performs Oct. 17 at Maurice Gusman Concert Hall in Miami (8 p.m., $30-50).

Bassist and University of Miami instructor Chuck Bergeron toured in historic big bands led by Buddy Rich and Woody Herman. Now he leads his own big band, the South Florida Jazz Orchestra, which also features many other South Florida jazz educators. On Nov. 11, in a Gold Coast Jazz presentation, they offer material by Bergeron's former bandleaders and beyond in Jazz Legends of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale (7:45 p.m., $35-40).

Veteran saxophonist Tom Scott has had a long and successful career as both a bandleader and session recording musician -- with 29 solo albums, three Grammy Awards and more than 450 total recordings. He kicks off the 10th anniversary season for the Jazz Arts Music Society (JAMS) of Palm Beach on Nov. 16 by taking the stage at the Harriet Himmel Theater, located within CityPlace in West Palm Beach (8 p.m., $35).

There are gifted singers and gifted pianists, but seldom do the two meet. Eliane Elias is an exceptional exception. The Brazilian jazz double-threat plays tracks from her new CD, Bossa Nova Stories, with her quartet in the South Florida Jazz organization's 18th anniversary concert Nov. 21 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the campus of Nova Southeastern University in Davie (8 p.m., $40-125).

Dave Grusin is a Grammy- and Academy Award-winning keyboardist and composer, and he's joined by guests Jon Secada, Patti Austin, Gary Burton, Arturo Sandoval, Nestor Torres and Sammy Figueroa for Jazz Roots: An Evening With Dave Grusin. The evening will include Grusin's movie themes, and a rare performance of his contemporary jazz rendition of West Side Story, on Dec. 4 at Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami (8 p.m., $25-125).

Vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway may be best-known for her Tony-nominated role in the hit Broadway musical Swing!, but she's also performed with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and has an extensive recording catalog leading up to her latest CD, At Last. She appears on Jan. 2 at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart (8 p.m., $45).

The exuberant playing of pianist Cyrus Chestnut draws from influences ranging from the rhythmic Fats Waller to the unorthodox Thelonious Monk. In his Gold Coast Jazz performance of Jazzin' Elvis, Chestnut and his trio perform a variety of jazz standards, mixed with Elvis Presley hits, on Jan. 13 at the Broward Center (7:45 p.m., $35-40).

The concert that commemorates JAMS' actual birthday features the quintet led by pianist John Colianni ,whose body of work includes being a part of bands led by Lionel Hampton and Mel Tormé. Colianni's brand of high-energy jazz piano is displayed on his quintet's latest CD, Johnny Chops. On Jan. 26, that energy will fill the Harriet Himmel Theater (8 p.m., $35).

Trumpeter Chris Botti is a rarity in modern music -- a gifted jazz player who's able to fill large concert halls. Before his latest solo outing, Chris Botti in Boston, the trumpeter played fusion with drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin and guitarist David Torn and also worked with pop singer/songwriters Joni Mitchell, Sting, and Paul Simon. Botti appears on Jan. 28 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts' Dreyfoos Hall in West Palm Beach (8 p.m., $25-100).

One of jazz/fusion's godfather guitarists, Larry Coryell ,and one of the leading modern Hammond organists, Joey DeFrancesco, unite in the Larry Coryell-Joey DeFrancesco Trio. Having already appeared with drummers from veteran fusion star Alphonse Mouzon to DeFrancesco's youthful bandmate Byron Landham, the six-string master and the grinding keyboardist star in a South Florida Jazz presentation on Feb. 13 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center (8 p.m., $35).

Esperanza Spalding boasts a surprising combination of talents by being a vocalist, bassist and bandleader -- and all at the tender age of 23. Raised in a multicultural household in Portland, Ore., she sings in English, Spanish and Portugese, and has already worked with jazz icons Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke and Joe Lovano. She appears Feb. 20 at the Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth (8 p.m., $27).

JAMS' official anniversary concert features a quartet co-led by trumpeter Marvin Stamm and pianist Bill Mays. The two distinguished traditional jazz veterans are joined by bassist Richard Drexler and drummer Marty Morrell on Feb. 23 at the Harriet Himmel Theater (8 p.m., $35).

Twenty-two-year-old pianist Eldar surprises with his stunning recent release, Virtue. Born Eldar Djangirov in Kyrgyzstan, the pianist has recorded since his early teens, but raises his art to a new level on the new CD. He's joined by the disc's rhythm section, bassist Armando Gola and drummer Ludwig Afonso, on March 11 at Festival of the Arts Boca in Boca Raton (8:30 p.m., $25-50.)

As the leading vibraphonist and educator of his era, six-time Grammy winner Gary Burton has a great ear for youthful jazz talent. His Next Generation Band features rising young musicians in guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Vadim Neselovskyi, bassist Luques Curtis and drummer James Williams, and the quintet plays a South Florida Jazz concert on March 13 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center (8 p.m., $35).

Born in Russia and already a huge success in Canada, vocalist Sophie Milman is likewise growing on American audiences. Her new release, Take Love Easy, follows the 2007 CD Make Someone Happy, which won a Juno Award (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy). At age 26, Milman's husky voice, looks and jazz sensibilities might result in stardom in the United States in the near future. She appears on March 17 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts' Rinker Playhouse (7 p.m., $38).

The Palm Beach Pops presents Big Bands and All That Jazz!, which re-creates the music of the great swing orchestras with guest vocalists Lynn Roberts and the Swing Set Singers on April 2-3 at the Kravis Center's Dreyfoos Hall (8 p.m., $29-89), April 5-7 at Carol & Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton (8 p.m., $29-69), and April 8 at the Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach Gardens (8 p.m., $75-85).

Cuban pianist Omar Sosa and his Afreecanos Quartet, play what the band's name implies -- an eclectic blend of African and Cuban music with some free jazz thrown in. The three-time Grammy nominee plays tunes from his latest CD, Tales From the Earth, during a South Florida Jazz stop on April 10 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center (8 p.m., $35).

Four of South Florida's leading female jazz vocalists -- Brenda Alford, Rose Max, Wendy Pedersen and Nicole Yarling -- team with a top area jazz ensemble in South Florida Jazz Divas & The Gold Coast Jazz Society Band, led by saxophonist Eric Allison, on April 14 at the Amaturo Theater (7:45 p.m., $35-40).

Jazz Roots: Piano Latino presents the fascinating trio of New York City-born salsa master Eddie Palmieri, Dominican Grammy winner Michel Camilo, and 23-year-old Cuban sensation Alfredo Rodriguez, a discovery of Quincy Jones, on March 16 at Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center (8 p.m., $25-125).

Bill Meredith is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written extensively on jazz for publications such as Jazziz and Jazz Times.

Editor's note: This is one in a series of 10 stories previewing the Palm Beach County and regional arts season for 2009-10.

It's useful to remember that no matter how far we've come from the Baroque era, good music of whatever age will engage interested young performers and be reborn anew.

The time to really notice that Saturday night was in the ensemble selections of a concert by the Netherlands-based Haagsche Hofmuzieck, a young trio (joined by a guest violinist to make a foursome) that opened the first-ever Delray Baroque mini-festival at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

In the third Water Music suite (HWV 350, in G) of Handel, you could hear the wit and insouciance of this fine little band throughout, as the harpsichord would play with plucked-cello accompaniment at one point, to be followed directly thereafter by the Baroque flute and the violin playing pizzicato, for a completely different, utterly refreshing color.

By now this familiar music has been arranged for any instrumental combination you can think of, but what matters is the attractive, direct quality of the music itself, and Haagsche Hofmuzieck stayed completely true to it while offering its own arrangement.

Further evidence of this quartet's scholarly-yet-engaged manner came in two other ensemble pieces that used the full quartet: a trio sonata (in D, Op. 13, No. 2), by the French violinist and composer Jean-Marie Leclair, and one of the Paris sonatas (in E minor) of the eminent German composer and Bach contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann. Neither of these works was written for the Haagsche combination -- flutist Daja Leevke Hinrichs, violinist Emily Thompson, cellist Marc Dupere and harpsichordist Marcin Swiatkiewicz -- but there was nothing inauthentic about these vigorous performances.

The Leclair sonata, which opened the second half of the concert, was particularly charming, full of delightful tunes and real humor; the second movement, with its repeated notes in the main theme like an invitation to a country dance, and the catchy melody of the finale causing more than one head in the rather large audience at the church to bob along in time.

Ensemble was quite good throughout the evening, especially in the faster movements, and there the audience could get a good sense of the considerable chops that each player has. This was evident in the Telemann sonata that closed the formal program, which had a recurring little motif in thirds that sounded as though it was overstaying its welcome on the beat in the fifth movement, titled Distrait.

But it was precise and sharply played, and in the finale, the extra liberties taken by Swiatkewicz's rolling-thunder harpsichord approach helped build the music to a point of real grandeur and power that was quite unlike anything else on the program.

Solo performances also were part of Saturday's concert, including a solo cello Ricercar (in D) by Domenico Gabrielli that Dupere played with the requisite virtuoso elan to take advantage of the increasingly difficult reiterations of the opening material. Swiatkiewicz played a four-part suite by Henry Purcell (in G minor) with a closing chaconne added, and demonstrated a sensitive hand that had the right somber elegance for the sarabande movement, as well as plenty of muscle for Purcell's big melodies in the opening prelude.

Violinist Thompson also took a solo turn with a passacaglia from one of the so-called Mystery Sonatas of Heinrich Biber, also in G minor. This is a quietly blossoming piece that begins with near-immobility before expanding into something more elaborate. Biber's music doesn't have the range of something like a Bach violin partita, and Thompson had to focus instead not on the interest of the music, which was slight, but on its intensity. That worked, actually, and in that sense successfully communicated the religious intention of its composer.

But the best moments of the concert came when all four players were working together on something, and you could enjoy their tight ensemble and clear joy in making music. For an encore, the group played an arrangement of the Badinerie movement from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 (in B minor, BWV 1067), which put Hinrichs in the spotlight.

She has a lovely sound and an admirable ability to get a full sound most of the time out of her Baroque flute; too often these pretty-but-soft instruments get lost in the continuo uproar. But not here: Hinrichs showed good technique, played this popular piece briskly, and her companions were with her every athletic step of the way.

Delray Baroque continues Sunday at 4 p.m. when concert organizer Keith Paulson-Thorp, St. Paul's music director, plays a solo concert of harpischord music, including Handel's The Harmonious Blacksmith, a suite by C.P.E. Bach, and sonatas by Pietro Paradies and Franz Joseph Haydn. Other, more recent music gets a hearing, too, including a sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni, excerpts from Sir Herbert Howells' Lambert's Clavichord, and Tango for Tim, by the contemporary British composer Michael Nyman. 4 pm, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Delray Beach. Tickets: $15-18, $5 for students. Call 278-6003 or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org.