Perhaps more than any other Mozart opera, ‘Don Giovanni’ lends itself to an extremely wide range of cultural, psychological, and aesthetic interpretations. In his new book, ‘Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth,’ Richard Will examines approaches from the past 125 years through recordings and videos, tracing stylistic changes as well as how the anti-hero is inevitably seen as a mirror of ourselves.
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One of our New Year’s resolutions for 2024 is to learn more about the artists living in Chicagoland. On February 4, we will host a day of informal meetings with The Newberry Consort, during which musicians who live in the Chicago area may play or sing for Artistic Director Liza Malamut. For those who are
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An early musician’s rant about the streaming-service behemoth Spotify: We have better options! From sound and search to library size and liner notes, there are two newer services that will improve the quality of your early-music listening experience. They’re somewhat more fair in artist compensation, too, a meaningful distinction for the consumer.
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The innovative, cross-cultural work of Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, has long stirred controversy and strong opinion. The Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will perform Rossi’s 1623 ‘Songs of Solomon,’ a set of Psalm settings in Hebrew in the Italian polyphonic style.
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The University of Oregon’s Oregon Bach Festival is happy to present the ninth annual Musicking Conference, “Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices,” to be held in person in Eugene, OR on Tuesday, April 9 through Friday, April 12, 2024. The 2024 conference will bring together research, education, and performance by considering scholarship and performance practice studies
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New York City’s TENET Vocal Artists is devoting its 15th season to music by, for, and about women. It’s not to suggest that men are not important, says TENET founder Jolle Greenleaf. Instead, ‘it’s to ask what changes in the sound, in the dynamics, and how do we interact with each other.’
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In 2016, Jordi Savall assembled a group of immigrant musicians with a fundamental mission: to preserve and revive precious musical traditions from a range of under-stress cultures, from Syrian and Kurdish to Armenian, Sudanese, Afghan, and Moroccan. The resulting live performance was captured as ‘Oriente Lux,’ bridging gaps and making connections.
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BOSTON, MA—Boston Baroque announced today the appointment of Sarah Radcliffe-Marrs to the position of Executive Director. The appointment comes at a time when the organization finds itself expanding at a rapid rate, both within the Boston community at in-person performances and across the world on six continents via streaming on IDAGIO Concerts. “We are thrilled
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Video games generate more revenue than the movie industry, and many games are set in ‘legendary times’ that cry out for an early music soundtrack. As technology improves, many games employ early music not just as background but as element of play.
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For his latest recording, theorbist Stafano Maiorana imagines two composers from Venice, active 350 years apart — Kapsberger and Ambrosini — in secret conversation in and about about La Serenissima.
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