Once dismissed as “fringe events,” musical salons hosted by women in the 18th c. are rightly seen as an invaluable source. Rebecca Cypess’ engaging new book makes connections “that might otherwise go unnoticed.”
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (February 2024)– Chatham Baroque welcomes Grammy-award winning Baroque group, Apollo’s Fire, for their “Violin Fantasy” performance. The program, an album release concert, will be held on February 18th, 4PM, at Calvary Episcopal Church, the program explores the baroque traditional stylus phantasticus, which conveys mood through drama and mystery, while showcasing Heinrich Biber’s Mystery
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Like a jukebox musical, a pasticcio opera takes hit tunes from an artist or era and stitches them together with a bespoke plot. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Portland Baroque Orchestra is set to perform ‘Dinner with Handel,’ a pasticcio where the great composer is caught in a surprise dinner party—revealing the man and his complicated relationships.
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BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima on February 3 and the quartet Le Consort on February 23, both in Cambridge, MA ARTIST: Opera PrimaAmanda Forsythe, sopranoCristiano Contadin, directorAndrea Inghisciano, cornetto; Mauro Spinazzè, violin; Marta Graziolino, triple harp; Gianluca Geremia, chitarrone; Cristiano Contadin, viola da gamba WHEN: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 7:30pm ETThe Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New
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Guest editorial: We are in the midst of a global mass extinction caused by a rapid change in climate. The scale of these problems means that the crisis cannot be addressed without action from the world’s most powerful governments — and they have utterly failed to respond. It’s an attitude of enjoying order (and short-term profits) more than pursuing justice. This comes despite years of scientists’ and citizens’ good-faith efforts to work within the system. To shake our friends’ complacency was our goal in disrupting the Met Opera…
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Piffaro’s next concert performances – February 11 in Tucson, March 15-17 in Philadelphia and Wilmington, and streaming online March 29 to April 11 – will transport audiences to the court of Charles VIII of France (“the Affable”) and into the pages of the “Gutenberg Bible of music,” the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. GRAMMY Award-winning tenor James
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This newly-devised opera pasticcio by Librettist Stephen Pettitt and Portland Baroque Orchestra’s Artistic Director Julian Perkins set for February 10 &11 Portland, Ore. — Portland Baroque Orchestra kicks off 2024 with the North American Premiere of a new opera pasticcio Dinner with Handel, February 10 & 11. ‘Pasticcio’ in Italian is a kind of pie,
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Making Connections We look forward to gathering the early-music community as we host our first in-person Summit in Boston, MA, October 24-26, 2023. The theme of EMA’s first in-person Summit, Making Connections, celebrates the many ways our community comes together to share and grow, in all its cultural richness and variety. More than 20 thought-provoking
The Aston Magna Festival, which stakes a claim as the oldest period-instrument festival in the country, turned 50 this past summer. As its long-time artistic director, violinist Daniel Stepner, plans to retire, the venerable festival is in for major changes.
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In a revealing look into the lives of ‘ordinary’ folks in 17th and 18th c. Germany, author Tanya Kevorkian taps a wealth of sources that detail city life, from religious beliefs to weddings to the rhythms and rules of town watchmen. With compassion and wisdom, the author notes that historians who look at street life “have to some degree replicated the perspective of the authorities.”
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