EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
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.'
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.
America250: A Braided Tale in Music
Brace yourself for tri-cornered hats and fife-and-drum renditions of 'Yankee Doodle.' Nostalgia aside, America250 is an opportunity to reflect on the broader trajectories of our musical heritage. We lose something profound if this moment is nothing more than a self-congratulatory celebration.
Praise for Harvard Baroque Returning to Its Roots
Letter to the Editor: 'It’s sort of a compliment that the current re-structuring of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra is taken as a paradigm for the decline in early-music studies in higher education...I see HBCO returning to its roots in a necessary and salutary way.'
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
The Brilliant David Munrow, Gone a Half Century
Anyone curious about the phenomenal growth of early music in the last decades of the 20th century is bound to run across the name David Munrow. In his short but ebullient career, just nine years, the English musician, scholar, and entrepreneur arguably did more than anyone to create the early-music scene we know today.
Dancing for Fun, Dancing as a Social Grace
In 18th- and 19th-century Europe (and colonial culture in the Americas), dancing was used to make social connections and impress members of one's class. 'Dance and Sociability' offers detailed descriptions of the social context for European dance among the upper classes during this period, including a thought-provoking article on how to define “grace.”
Sleepwalkers, Outcasts, Beauty, Chaos
Great artists express their identities through their art, yet many artists are forced to live in a society that does not accept their true identity. 'Passing Fancy: Beauty in a Moment of Chaos,' from Sonnambula, an ensemble of violins, viols, and keyboard, explores works by a range of such societal outcasts from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Cantata Collective Delivers the Latest ‘St. Matthew Passion’
New recordings of Bach's 'Saint Matthew Passion' continue to come at us apace. The latest, from the Bay Area's Cantata Collective, is highlighted by stellar vocal soloists and by Nicholas McGegan's emotionally subtle conducting.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
The Zarabanda Variations (Release Date: 08.07.26) is a uniquely combined chapbook and musical digital album that explores the historical and present syncretism of Baroque music in 12 original songs, dances, and poems. A ...
'300 Unplugged' is the first solo recording project by Italian singer Federica Bocchini and will be released by Edizioni Micrologus in physical and digital formats. The album brings together thirteen ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erick Hoffman, Chatham Baroque, Associate Director, 541.731.4666; erick@chathambaroque.org Chatham Baroque Announces 2026–2027 Season Celebrating 35 Years of Music Making in Pittsburgh A milestone season ...
The North American Virtual Recorder Society (NAVRS) presents Valentina Bellanova for Bella Italia: Echoes of Folk Traditions in Medieval and Renaissance Consort Saturday, June 20 at 2:00PM, ET. Valentina will lead ...
ALBA Consort Presents "The Nightingale Sings": A Transcontinental Musical Journey from Spain to Persia NEW YORK, NY — ALBA Consort announces its upcoming performance, "The Nightingale Sings," taking place on ...
