Jane Glover: “I happen to think that the MOB Chorus is the best chamber choir in North America. Actually, I would say that about the orchestra, too. I think it is the best chamber orchestra in North America. It’s thrilling to be part of.”
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Anyone unfamiliar with the festival might be surprised to learn that its programs also encompass a healthy dose of 19th, 20th, and even 21st-century works. Put simply, Bach is the foundation, but the festival builds a musical house on him of many colors, styles, and periods.
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The Bach and Beethoven Ensemble is doing everything it can to attract audiences who know little about classical music and maybe even less about early music.
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It is safe to say that very few, if any other, of today’s top harpsichordists can match the whirlwind, all-encompassing nature of his career, which includes performances on nearly 50 audio recordings and DVDs.
Jory Vinikour: Multi-Tasking Musician On The Go Read More »
The Aston Magna Festival, which stakes a claim as the oldest period-instrument festival in the country, turned 50 this past summer. As its long-time artistic director, violinist Daniel Stepner, plans to retire, the venerable festival is in for major changes.
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Voices, viols, virginals, and more. Northwestern’s William Byrd Festival starts this week, a rare chance to hear lectures and performances. We speak with the festival artists and scholars about the versatile composer.
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Like playing bingo, you can find “crisp” in countless early-music reviews, although such a term isn’t found in the historical record. Are musicians looking for uniformly “crisp” playing while neglecting other sonic possibilities? What’s going on here?
How Did Early Music Get So ‘Crispy’? Read More »
The small, almost-forgotten pipe organ called an Organetto is the star of this week’s Newberry Consort’s “Music Fit for the Medicis.” The organetto was typically played perpendicularly on a performer’s lap and was one of the most popular instruments in the 13th and the 14th centuries. None survive. What experts know today about the organetto comes from its depiction in hundreds of medieval paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and stained-glass windows.
Meet the Organetto, the Original Laptop Read More »
Playing 17th- and 18th-century music on modern instruments in a period style is old hat to Music of the Baroque, an ensemble Butt will lead for the first time Oct. 17 and 18.
Butt Savors Melding the Historically Informed with the Modern Read More »
With this latest opera, the company will have presented seven mostly lesser-known operatic and choral works by Handel. But just as Orlando is something of an outlier in the company’s repertoire, previous productions showcased two of the celebrated composer’s other operas – Amadigi di Gaula and Xerxes.
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