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“Girls on Fire!” – Antonio Vivaldi, l’estro armonico, Op.3 – Part I

Sunday, March 29th, 2026 at Vassar College, Skinner Hall-Martell Recital Hall. Abendmusik presents Vivaldi’s first collection of printed concerti for 1, 2, & 4 violins, Opus 3, l’estro armónico. Published in Amsterdam in 1711, these concerti are believed to have been performed by the all-female orchestra comprised of students at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. In honor […]

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Classical Guitarist Brendan Evans Releases debut album “Tiento”

Classical guitarist Brendan Evans has released Tiento (Green Flash Music, January 30, 2026), a solo recording that brings Renaissance lute repertory into dialogue with twentieth-century expression. The album includes works by Francesco Canova da Milano, whose 16th-century Italian lute music represents a pinnacle of early plucked-string polyphony. Performing this repertory on the modern classical guitar,

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Carmel Bach Festival Announces 89th Season

July 11-25, 2026 Angélica Negrón announced as Featured Composer (Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA ) — The The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) announces its 89th season, running July 11-25, 2026, in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. This season, the festival will explore the theme of “the nature of sound” performing in some of Carmel’s most beautiful venues like the Sunset Center Theater, Carmel Mission Basilica,

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AMS Summer Institute: Studying Early Music with Computers

In summer 2026, the American Musicological Society (AMS) will host a two-week residential Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled Studying Early Music with Computers: Tools, Formats, and Strategies, to be held at New York University, 14–27 June 2026. This institute will apply insights from recent scholarship in humanistic music studies (musicology, music theory, music analysis, etc.) and digital

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Sarasa Ensemble presents delicious works from 17th-c. Bologna 2/27-3/1

Sarasa Ensemble stirs up delicious works from 17th-century Bologna in ‘alla Bolognese’ program February 27-March 1, 2026 Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble performs the fourth concert-set of its 2025-26 Concert Series “Connection” with alla Bolognese on the weekend of February 27-March 1, 2026. Not only renowned for its famous ragù, Bologna was the hotspot for many pioneering 17th-century musicians who paved the

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