MUSIC WORCESTER TO CELEBRATE BACH’S BIRTHDAY BASH MARCH 21-23, 2025 FOUR-CONCERT WEEKEND FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY PIANIST JEREMY DENK AND HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY ARE PART OF 11-YEAR PROJECT TO PRESENT ALL 1000+ WORKS COMPOSED BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH  (Worcester, MA -December 12, 2024) Pianist Jeremy Denk and the Handel & Haydn Society are the […]
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‘What made music exciting and interesting for listeners in the early 17th century, when vocal and instrumental music was exploring declamation, rhetorical delivery, theatricality, and the ability to move the listener? Today, how do we generate excitement and how do we take a historical approach? Do we need breakneck tempos, edgy string playing, machine-gun coloratura, and stridency to make our points?’
Toil & Trouble: What’s the Historical Approach to Generate Excitement? Read More »
From Rome to Vilnius is a new investigative insight into the cultural heritage of Lithuania: the music at the Vasa Court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It reflects the influence of the greatest masters of the Roman polyphonic school in the musical world of Poland and Lithuania, and shows the Vasa Court as a place of
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Italian composer and Franciscan friar Lodovico Viadana, born c. 1560 near Mantua, was a pioneer in the new expressive monody in church music. The Viadana Collective makes its stunning recording debut with music from their namesake’s ‘Centum sacri concentus ab una voce sola,’ codifying the sound of solo voices with instrumental accompaniment.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contacts: Lydia Consilvio, Marketing and Community Programs Manager, lconsilvio@cantatasingers.org Cantata Singers Announces Boston Choral Festival: Monteverdi Vespers Boston Choral Festival: Monteverdi Vespers Fri, October 25, 2024 | 7:30 PM Cyclorama (Boston Center for the Arts)539 Tremont StreetBoston, MA 02116Noah Horn, Music Director Vespers of 1610, Claudio Monteverdi In celebration of Cantata Singers’
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Triomphi Special Event: September 27 at 2:00 PM – Petrarch Symposium at Penn Libraries Concerts: In Person & Online Support for these concerts is provided by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation. Piffaro, the Renaissance wind band launches its season with a collaboration with New York City’s TENET Vocal Artists and projection designer Camilla Tassi.
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The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, co-sponsored by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, invites proposals for recitals, talks and innovative presentations from performers, scholars, organologists, builders, and technicians for an international festival to be held at Cornell University from August 6-10, 2025. We particularly encourage individual and collaborative proposals that combine insights drawn from
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For a series devoted to ‘neglected figures from Irish musical history,’ Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra unearthed a 1767 program sung by Rachel Baptist, billed as a ‘Black Syren.’ On this lovely recording, soprano Rachel Redmond and the orchestra inhabit Baptist’s world, making ‘a connection through the centuries.’
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New Musical Organization Announces the First Annual Burlington Baroque Festival, September 26-29, 2024 Burlington Baroque presents five performances featuring internationally-acclaimed festival Artists-in-Residence L’Harmonie des saisons Baroque Orchestra, with the Burlington Baroque Festival Singers. Burlington, VT — Burlington Baroque, a new musical organization founded and directed by Eric Milnes, announces the first annual Burlington Baroque Festival
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Separated by 350 years and an ocean apart, Cuban and Chilean songwriters in the 20th century used some of the same compositional devices as Monteverdi and Purcell. Tenor Nicholas Mulroy’s latest work connects the European Baroque with Latin America in a pleasing, ear-expanding album.
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