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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The Grammy-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series presents a rollicking 1737 masterpiece—John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley—on Thanksgiving weekend in Boston with additional performances in Miami and Troy, NY Cambridge, MA – The GRAMMY Award-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns on Thanksgiving weekend with an all-new production that’s Monty Python meets Handel
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PRESS CONTACT Ashley Mulcahy, Co-Director Lyracle lyraclemusic@gmail.com PHOTOS & Ticket QR Codes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lmTbOwwpwG6GAcbVITbWe6V3aArKo5wo?usp=sharing Voice & Viol Ensemble Celebrates the Historic Lupo Family Lyracle Presents Exodus & Evolution One family, a hundred years of musical excellence! A multigenerational family of Jewish musicians, the Lupo’s exodus from Iberia, migration to Northern Italy, and recruitment to England coincided with key developments in the evolution of
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A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie explores and shares the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past as they resonate with and challenge our current expectations. Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library,
Alkemie premieres Pentiment LIVE – Early Music meets Xbox Read More »
As its name suggests, Byrd’s 1589 volume of songs titled Songs of Sundrie Natures varies widely in scoring, style, and mood. Byrd’s preface says that he is “desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke,” and he offers the book as a musical compilation “to
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Embracing works from the Old and New Worlds, Camerata Pacifica presents with “From Bach to Bolivia,” the first of two programs in its new Camerata Pacifica Baroque series featuring period instruments and curated by acclaimed flutist Emi Ferguson. The repertoire for the inaugural Baroque concert includes five seminal Bach chamber works: Prelude and Fugue; Trio Sonata
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Join us on Zoom September 18, 2023, 7:30 P.M. for “In a Woman’s Voice: Musical Settings of Poetry by Christine de Pizan and an Anonymous Poet,” presented by Rotem Gilbert, PhD, Professor of Practice, Music and Musicology, Vice-Dean, Research and Scholarly Studies Diviision, USC Thornton School of Music. We will explore and play portions of
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The latest essay in EMA’s ‘Early Music: the Americas’ series looks into the private notebooks of two women who preserved music of Latin American and European composers — music that in some cases is found nowhere else.
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