Robert Burton published his treatise Anatomy of Melancholy in the last years of the reign of James I, when religious melancholy was a real problem among the Godly pejoratively called puritans. Burton puts religious melancholy in the section of his book on love melancholy, but in the section on cures, he tells us that melancholy can be rectified by Music of all sorts aptly applied. We combine John Dowlands Lachrim or seaven teares figured in seaven passionate pavans for violins a 5 part string band led by Christopher Verrette and lute with lute airs from his songbooks, consort songs and his psalm settings for the death of his friend Sir Henry Noel. Pre-concert talk by Rev. Lisa Wang at 7:30, concert at 8. Tickets $30 and $20, available at the door.