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- 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.’
