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Piffaro proffers YouTube concert on May 15

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Piffaro is joining the ranks of ensembles offering free online performances with a one-hour “rebroadcast” of its March 2019 performance of material from Michael Praetorius’ Terpsichore with Sonnambula, which was performed in Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE and at the Met Cloisters. Dancers’ Delight Redux Watch Party: Friday, May 15, 7:30PM EDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDH9Vg_20E8&feature=youtu.be or https://www.youtube.com/officialpiffaro Dancers’ Delight was […]

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New findings for performance: recent articles by Beverly Jerold

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Recent articles by Beverly Jerold: “Distinguishing between dotted notes and notes inégales, The Musical Times 161/1950 (Spring 2020): 61-76. “Marmontel/[Piccinni] on Neapolitan Opera,” Journal of Music Criticism 3 (2019): 1-17. Details about Neapolitan opera conveyed in Marmontel’s epic poem Polymnie. “Tartini and the Two Forms of Appoggiature,” Eighteenth Century Music 16/1 (2019): 83-86. The Italian

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James Weaver Obituary

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Smithsonian music curator James Merle Weaver died on 16 April in Rochester, New York, from complications of COVID-19. He was 82. Weaver began his lifelong engagement with music as a piano, and later, organ, student in his hometown of Danville, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois in nearby Champaign/Urbana. His weekend activities during that

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