Bach Collegium San Diego, led by Ruben Valenzuela, finds acclaim for their ‘El MesÃas’ project, a translation of ‘Messiah’ into Spanish. And why not? Handel himself altered his music to adapt to new contexts and audiences.
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Is it possible that ‘early music’ is over, and we just haven’t realized it? I think we can expect, if not a revolution, at least a freedom, an exhilaration, a new age to succeed the old. After all, the modern HP movement has been around for about as long as the distance between the B-minor Mass and the Ninth Symphony. A lot of changes took place in those 75 years…
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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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‘I was fresh out of grad school and desperately trying to make it as a freelance singer. I had patched together part-time arts administration and hustling. I was auditioning, taking miserable gigs, and commuting up to three hours…I was doing so much more than a 9-to-5, and yet, people still asked what my “real” job was…’
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Seattle’s SHAK, Chicago’s Stevenson High School, and a new start-up, Lute4Kids in upstate New York, are among the few U.S. early-music programs devoted to hands-on, pre-collegiate education. It’s a pipeline the field must nurture if it’s to thrive.
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