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The City Musick Corona Consort Project

The renowned UK based historic wind ensemble The City Musick are pleased to announce the new Corona Consort Karaoke  project. We deeply miss playing with colleagues and students on our summer schools ...

Project Isabella Leonarda, 1620-2020

Suor Isabella Leonarda (6 September, 1620 – 25 February, 1704) was the most prolific of all women composers in the 17th century. She published no fewer than 20 collections of ...

Bach Goes Greek: Season Finale Broadcast

Ars Lyrica Houston is thrilled to bring you an hour of insight, community, and music in lieu of our season finale in Zilkha Hall. Insights from Matthew Dirst about the ...

[VIDEO] The Goldberg Variations (At Home) – Aya Hamada, harpsichord

The Goldberg Variations (At Home) - Aya Hamada, harpsichord Each day in the month of April 2020, I played & recorded one variation of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations from my ...

Piffaro proffers YouTube concert on May 15

Piffaro is joining the ranks of ensembles offering free online performances with a one-hour "rebroadcast" of its March 2019 performance of material from Michael Praetorius' Terpsichore with Sonnambula, which was ...

New findings for performance: recent articles by Beverly Jerold

Recent articles by Beverly Jerold: “Distinguishing between dotted notes and notes inégales, The Musical Times 161/1950 (Spring 2020): 61-76. “Marmontel/[Piccinni] on Neapolitan Opera,” Journal of Music Criticism 3 (2019): 1-17 ...

James Weaver Obituary

Smithsonian music curator James Merle Weaver died on 16 April in Rochester, New York, from complications of COVID-19. He was 82. Weaver began his lifelong engagement with music as a ...

Apollo’s Fire: Music for the Soul Video Series

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Times London picks Apollo’s Fire as #1 for Bach St. John Passion Recordings & Music for the Soul Video Series reaches audiences far and wide  Jeannette ...

[Video] Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor

These videos were filmed in Brooklyn at Skillman Music studios just a week before the NYC shutdown due to COVID-19.  -August McKay Lodge ...

Virtually everything you could ask for!

Ars Lyrica Houston offers virtually everything you could ask for! Whether its a cocktail and watch-party with artistic director Matthew Dirst, concerts and conversations with star performers, or educational pieces, ...
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