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Discover the Amazing Story of the Tenshō Embassy!

In 1582, four Japanese teenage ambassadors set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon on what would be an 8-year adventure. Discover their amazing story and celebrate their musical accomplishments in Japan and abroad at a performance of Lyracle’s new program, Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy. Learn more at lyraclemusic.com/events Performers: Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano James Perretta, viol Danielle Boivin, actor […]

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The Practitioners of Musick:“18th Century Dutch Music in America”

Enjoy a live performance of music enjoyed and played in Colonial America! The Practitioners of Musick will offer a program at the historic Abraham Staats House (c.1740) that reflects late 17th and 18th century Dutch and English popular music heard in New Netherlands and its capital, New Amsterdam.  A march composed in honor of American

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The Renaissance Chorus presents “Austro-Hungarian Court Composers”

Like her grandfather Maximilian I, who employed Isaac and Senfl, Mary Queen of Hungary brilliantly employed the Court composer Thomas Stoltzer to set Luther’s new 1524 Hebrew-German Psalm translations to pioneering 6/7vv. polyphony. Senfl arranged Josquin’s ‘Ave Maria’ to 6vv. These and other of their motets and lied are featured by RenChorNY led by Richard

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Blue Heron Celebrates Italian Madrigals with “Tasso and Wert”

Blue Heron continues its multi-year exploration of the Italian madrigal with “Tasso & Wert,” a new program featuring dramatic scenes and lyrics by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95) set to music by the Flemish composer Giaches de Wert (1535-96) and others. Taking place on Saturday, March 23 at 8pm at First Church in Cambridge,

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Chatham Baroque Presents Apollo’s Fire: Violin Fantasy

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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A Handelian Feast in Portland

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, and Le Consort

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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