Included in the Full Issue
- The First Rule of Fiddle Club by Anne E. Johnson
- Niagara and Musical Heritage by Douglas W. Shadle
- Leaping Gracefully Between the Centuries by Gillian Anne Renault
- Life Lessons from a Luthier by Sophie Genevieve Lowe
- On the Road Again by Kyle MacMillan
- A Braided Tale in Music by Antonio M. Gomez
- From the Publications Director: Get Noticed: Publicizing Your Ensemble and Events
- From the Executive Director: Warm Up That Pen
- EMA Courant: News from Around the Early-Music Community by Paulina Francisco
- Canto: The Music is the Culture by Cecilia Duarte
- EMA’s Recording & Book Reviews
- Online Stories You May Have Missed
- EMAg Puzzle: Musical Acrostic #2 by Elisa Sutherland
- Musings: Play It With Style by Thomas Forrest Kelly
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Features
Life Lessons from a Luthier
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.
Musings: Play It With Style
‘That raises the question of what we’re doing when we study all those treatises and try to play like Couperin. Probably not everybody sounded like Couperin in Couperin’s day, or wanted to. And maybe we don’t actually want to sound like Couperin, either — we want to sound like a plausible, tasteful, expressive but individual performer.’
Leaping Gracefully Between the Centuries
Anna Mansbridge’s keen imagination and cross-pollination of dance styles — Renaissance, Baroque, contemporary — has informed her work in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest for a quarter-century.
‘Niagara’ and America’s Musical Heritage
A scholar of American musical history reflects on ‘Niagara,’ an obscure symphony that connects centuries of our nation’s cultural life, proving once again that the only thing fixed about American musical identity is that it remains in a constant state of flux.
Serenading the Revolution: Regimental Bands of Music
Music, much of it performed by military bands, is inextricably linked to the mythology of the American Revolution. Yet one of early America’s most popular musical ensembles, the regimental band, has been obscured from the late 18th-c. soundscape.
Get Noticed: Publicizing Your Ensemble and Events
At EMA, we often hear versions of a basic question: How do I get my ensemble and concerts previewed, reviewed, mentioned in the press? Artists run their own social media but, in truth, you want someone else talking up your projects and performances. That attention, in turn, helps ticket sales and fundraising. It puts the organization on an upward spiral.
CANTO: The Music Is the Culture
Friends and colleagues have shared with me, and I know from experience, that vocalists with exclusively “classical” training can sometimes be blind to the richness of other music. We tend to minimize our efforts when approaching different or less “formal” genres, or even avoid them completely.
On the Road Again
For audiences and performers, the value of touring is undeniable. A city-to-city string of shows can seem glamorous, heightening artistic reputations and drawing new fans in distant communities. Many American early-music groups would love to go on tour. Some have learned to navigate that complex landscape.
