Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...
Jan. 26—When the Saint Joseph Symphony was planning out its 2021-22 season, it wanted its Chamber Concerts to offer something different. The latest show will be something managing director Lori ...
Five Boroughs Music Festival, in partnership with Portland Baroque Orchestra and Great Arts. Period., presents the world premiere of Juxtapositions: Old and New Music for Baroque Instruments, a ...
Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...
Claire Rottembourg of Birmingham, a virtuoso of Baroque flute, is one of the clinicians and featured performers for the 2013 Early Music Festival, organized by Valley Conservatory in Huntsville, Ala., ...
The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...
If the instruments were exotic, the music played was mostly top-hit Baroque pieces. Two of Handel's most familiar works were performed, the 1717 "Water Music Suite in F" and the 1748 "Music for the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. 5BMF's original 2020-21 season included a late-fall presentation of the complete ...
Curious about the long neck sticking up from the orchestra pit during the Houston Grand Opera's performances of The Coronation of Poppea? It belongs to a theorbo, a member of the lute family. The ...
After 25 years of musical performance in the city perhaps you are familiar with our work – if not read on we may surprise you ...