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Mountainside Baroque’s 2022-2023 season, “Chapels and Courts,” will continue on Sunday, December 18, at 5pm, with its annual “Festival of Lessons and Carols.” As in previous years, the ecumenical event will take place at the historic Emmanuel Episcopal Parish at 16 Washington Street in Cumberland, Maryland. The Scholars of St. Cecilia, Mountainside Baroque’s resident chamber […]

ARTEK’s first holiday program since the pandemic presents Vivaldi’s blockbuster Four Seasons, featuring ARTEK’s violin leader, Cynthia Freivogel with the ARTEK Baroque Orchestra (Gwendolyn Toth, director). Ms. Freivogel is known on YouTube for her performances of the Four Seasons, garnering over 30 million views. Now, ARTEK is bringing the chance to hear her perform this

José de Nebra (1702-1768) is well known as a composer of opera, but only a few scattered keyboard pieces of his circulated until a substantial manuscript was discovered recently in a cathedral archive in Zaragoza. Nebra’s manuscript was published last year in an excellent edition by Luis Antonio González Marín (Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2021).