“The Pianist’s Guide to Historic Improvisation” (Oxford University Press) made its debut as the #1 New Release on Amazon in the category Music Instruction and Study. Â Author John Mortensen is internationally known as a pianist, harpsichordist, and Fulbright Global Scholar in Historic Improvisation. Noam Sivan, Professor of Improvisation at the Hochscule of Music and Performing […]
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The renowned UK based historic wind ensemble The City Musick are pleased to announce the new Corona Consort Karaoke project. We deeply miss playing with colleagues and students on our summer schools and courses so have come up with this idea to enable players to play along with any part they want from a series of audio
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Suor Isabella Leonarda (6 September, 1620 – 25 February, 1704) was the most prolific of all women composers in the 17th century. She published no fewer than 20 collections of motets and other sacred music, nearly 200 compositions spanning virtually every genre of sacred music of her time, as well as the only complete collection
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Ars Lyrica Houston is thrilled to bring you an hour of insight, community, and music in lieu of our season finale in Zilkha Hall. Insights from Matthew Dirst about the score, a walk-through of the design process from stage director Tara Faircloth, excerpts from a previous performance of Bach’s Phoebus and Pan, and a communal
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The Goldberg Variations (At Home) – Aya Hamada, harpsichord Each day in the month of April 2020, I played & recorded one variation of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations from my home in Manhattan, and posted it to my Twitter feed. This clip is a compilation of those 32 videos of my GOLDBERG VARIATIONS AT HOME
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