EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Vibrato Wars
Many people think a peace treaty was signed after the vibrato wars of the 1970s, when the plush string textures of the modern symphony orchestra were challenged by the leaner sound of historical instruments. Eliminating vibrato, along with playing on gut strings, was the most noticeable mark of historically informed performance style. Before it was even called HIP, employing “authentic instruments” set early-music players apart from symphony orchestras, and singing with a pristine, boy-like sound marked a new vocal coloring.
If It’s Monday, It’s Collegium
The peripatetic and exhausting and fascinating and insanely fulfilling life of an early musician in America.
Cracking a Centuries-Old Tradition
A prof from Ohio guides collegiate singers in Cambridge, England, in the illuminating tuning system known as Just Intonation.
Viola da Gamba Dojo
John Mark Rozendaal combines Eastern and Western teaching techniques to introduce the viol to a wide range of learners.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review: Wood’s Love of Bach Illuminated
Viewing Sir Henry Wood as an unappreciated figure in the “Bach revival” movement, Hannah French has industriously researched the scores and orchestral parts of the Bach works belonging to the conductor and used for his performances.
CD Review: Sonnambula Debuts With Duarte
The ensemble's impressive first disc promises and delivers the complete works of Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), the accomplished daughter of a prosperous Iberian converso jeweler who was resident in Antwerp.
CD Review: Sebastians Illuminate Vivaldi And Friends
On its new recording, 'Folia,' the ensemble’s comfort with the material shines through. The slower movements are graceful and expressive, the faster ones exciting.
CD Review: Kožená Electrifies In Dramatic Fare
Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená's first album on the Pentatone label centers on the protagonists of four tragic Baroque cantatas.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Ran Blake, a jazz improvisation teacher of mine, once told me that when we meet the right people to play with we should never leave them. I am so fortunate ...
(Boston) The Handel and Haydn Society will celebrate the 160th anniversary of the very first Emancipation Proclamation Concert with a free performance at the Historic Trinity Church in Boston’s Copley ...
Jouyssance returns to the British Isles for its beloved tradition of celebrating Twelfth Night. Exploring carols and motets from Dunstable to the Dublin Troper, Jouyssance will also present works by ...
Stony Brook, New York Double Bassist Nina Bernat has won the Grand Prize of the fourth annual Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition for strings. Ms. Bernat was one ...
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 ...
