Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away, but the Crescendo Period Instrument Orchestra and its founding artistic director, Christine Gevert, are already preparing a feast of musical comfort food to be served at Saint James Place in Great Barrington October 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Trinity Church in Lakeville, Connecticut, October 30 at 4 p.m. 

And Gevert knows exactly the type of victuals required: the famous Baroque solo concertos from Rome, Bologna, Venice, and London. “These are real ‘feel-good’ pieces,” she says, “offered to our audience in the troubled times of the pandemic.”