Gabriela Guadalajara is perhaps NYC’s only luthier who works exclusively on period instruments. In a brilliantly devised partnership, she is helping bring Baroque instrument-making techniques to Latin America.
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Brace yourself for tri-cornered hats and fife-and-drum renditions of ‘Yankee Doodle.’ Nostalgia aside, America250 is an opportunity to reflect on the broader trajectories of our musical heritage. We lose something profound if this moment is nothing more than a self-congratulatory celebration.
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From the Executive Director: Early music suffered another painful blow when the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra lost its university funding. But if we want to keep historical performance alive, we have to think bigger than just protecting individual programs at the collegiate level, and, for nonprofit ensembles, think bigger than just fighting for our own little slice of pie.
In 1759, five viols were stashed in a secret vault in Québec City. The viols’ journey tells us about Canada’s musical past, about how ‘ancient’ instruments are woven into the cultural fabric, and about narratives of early-music revivals.
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Percussionist Rex Benincasa writes about adding sounds and spices to music where there’s little or no historical guidance, from the European high Baroque to Mediterranean North Africa and the court of the Tang Dynasty. Much of what he plays was never written down.
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