Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, continues its 20th anniversary season with three programs that look back on and forward to the orchestral and chamber music that the ensemble has been introducing to been introducing to American audiences over the years. First up is Season XX: Chamber | Highlights from Twenty Years of Discovery, […]
The Handel and Haydn Society has just received a transformative gift of $10 million in honor of Artistic Director Harry Christophers. The money was donated outright and anonymously and will help create the Harry Christophers Fund for Artistic Excellence. H+H announced the donation before Friday’s performance of Handel’s Messiah at Boston’s Symphony Hall. At the
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, continues its 20th Anniversary Season with A 1000-Guilder Tune: musical alchemy from baroque Moravia. Inspired and named for its central instrumental piece, “1000-Guilder Sonata”, by Philipp Jacob Rittler, the program celebrates scores from him and two other notable composers — Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky and Giovanni Valentin. All
Early modern musical incarnations of the ‘Odyssey’ take center stage in the volume, and particularly Giacomo Badoaro and Claudio Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria’ (1640), an opera that is becoming increasingly well-known to musicians, scholars, and audiences.
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Tickets are on sale now for this new, hybrid in-person and streaming concert Boston Baroque opens its season with a program of music by George Frideric Handel and Jean-Féry Rebel this October at GBH’s Calderwood Studio, welcoming live studio audiences on site and virtual audiences around the world via livestream. The performances will take place
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The Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles present a program of works by Monteverdi—in Boston and online ARTIST: BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical DirectorsDanielle Reutter-Harrah & Teresa Wakim, soprano; Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano; Jason McStoots & Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone; Tekla Cunningham, guest concertmaster; Cynthia Roberts, violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola & viola da gamba; Erin
Virtual Program Series will introduce Boston audiences to the Music Archives of the House of Lobkowicz, a Czech noble family
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Philadelphia’s internationally renowned period instrument ensemble, Piffaro the Renaissance Band, opens its final season under the leadership of its founders, Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken, in person October 8-10 and online October 16-26. The program features the world premiere of a major new work by composer Kile Smith in addition to the ensemble’s authoritative explorations
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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Heidi Waterman, communications@sfems.org “LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD”: TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY’S 2021–22 CONCERT SEASON SFEMS moves out of the pandemic with a full in-person and digital season. Oct. 22–24: The Paris Quartet Dec. 3–5: Aulos Ensemble with Julianne Baird Jan. 14 (SPECIAL EVENT): Quicksilver Baroque
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