The Baroque Violin & Viola: a Fifty-Lesson Course by Walter S Reiter After more than half a century spent teaching and playing the violin, the last thirty of which have been devoted almost exclusively to the Baroque violin, the author offers this two-volume book as a gift to all violinists and violists curious to share […]
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William Kinderman’s book focuses on Beethoven’s lifelong belief in freedom and progress as universal ideals that found expression in his music in all periods of his life in ways that continue to resonate to the present day
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Featuring a hybrid in-person and streaming concert series in collaboration with Boston public media producer GBH and new global streaming partner IDAGIO. Five concert season features a new production of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula with Anthony Roth Costanzo, the return of the beloved Handel’s Messiah and New Year’s Celebration concerts, and more
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Robert Wang (BM ’23) admits he sometimes gets lonely. When the USC campus closed in March in the wake of COVID-19, almost all the students went home. Not Wang. Rather than return to his family in Canada, the 20-year-old Classical Guitar major decided to stay in the dorm. His only company has been his guitar
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Violinist Augusta McKay Lodge, violist Georgina McKay Lodge, cellist Eva Lymenstull, and harpsichordist David Schulenberg curate a concise, intriguing program of music by lesser-known but gifted composers.
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Every two weeks from September to May, Cleveland’s baroque chamber ensemble Les Délices presented 16 lively episodes of wide-ranging period music with performers from far and wide.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW YORK, NY, MARCH, 2021: For Women’s History Month, Acis presents In the Salon of Madame Brillon: Music and Friendship in Benjamin Franklin’s Paris⏤another exciting album from REBECCA CYPESS and THE RARITAN PLAYERS that showcases the rediscovery of women in music history: In late eighteenth-century Paris, composer and keyboardist ANNE-LOUISE BRILLON DE
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A significant contribution to the field of American history as well as musicology, ‘Hail Columbia!’ provides a detailed analysis of popular American songs on the political scene in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Sine Nomine (Seattle, WA) offers a Spring performance project: a celebration of the 500th anniversary of the death of French Renaissance master Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521). The course will feature the ‘Missa Sine Nomine’ – ‘Mass without a name’ – and other pieces to showcase Josquin, and will include movements from ‘Missa Sine Nomines’ by
Joyce Chen’s research “shows that there is an imbalanced, circular relationship between Western and Asian HIP communities, exacerbated by a persistent tension between modern sensibilities and century-old musical practices.”
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