Amherst Early Music and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute have long embraced musicians ranging from enthusiasts to professionals. These two programs, similar in many regards, serve a range of abilities and interests, and both of them got their start a half a century ago.
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Boston Baroque welcomes in-person audiences at GBH’s Calderwood Studio in Boston and streaming audiences around the world for the program featuring soloists Elena Villalón and Rufus Müller BOSTON, MA—Boston Baroque’s 21-22 Season continues with an exultant concert featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day at GBH’s Calderwood Studio. The performances will take
Tempesta di Mare continues its 20th anniversary season with programs: Artist Recital: Founders’ Picks, Season XX: Chamber (available On-Demand from Feb 20 – Mar 19), and the mainstage Season XX: Orchestra form a three-program focus from Tempesta di Mare’s twenty years of rediscovery and championing rarely played masterworks that continues to the present day. Artist
Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, continues their innovative Turning Points season with their first in-person performance of 2022, An Uncommon Chevalier, on March 27th. This concert features two of America’s leading baroque violinists, Cynthia Roberts and Elizabeth Blumenstock, playing Bologne and Mozart’s sparkling violin concertos. The program concludes with Haydn’s spirited “The Hen”
The star of Luisa Morales’ uniformly excellent recording isn’t the performer or the repertoire, it’s the keyboard instrument: a hybrid with a lower manual on which the strings are plucked and an upper manual where the strings are struck by hammers. The sound is sweet with plenty of expressive nuance.
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Boston Early Music Festival presents the legendary viol virtuoso Jordi Savall and his ensemble Le Concert des Nations performing music from Baroque Versailles—February 25 in Harvard Square and premiering online on March 11 ARTIST: Jordi Savall & Le Concert des NationsManfredo Kraemer, violinCharles Zebley, flutePhilippe Pierlot, 7-string bass violRolf Lislevand, theorboMarco Vitale, harpsichordJordi Savall, 7-string
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Sally Hemings’ three sons with Thomas Jefferson, and many in her extended family, were accomplished musicians. The pieces they played are ripe for modern performances on historical instruments.
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(Cambridge, MA) Palaver Strings is set to bring their chamber concert experience “Through the Looking Glass’ to Club Passim on Thursday, February 10th. Maya French & Ryan Shannon (violin), Elizabeth Moore (viola), and Dara Hankins (cello) will explore some of the new musical ideas that propel chamber music into the future. The performance will include
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DOWNLOAD PDF ARTIST: Stile AnticoHelen Ashby, Kate Ashby & Rebecca Hickey, sopranoEmma Ashby, Cara Curran & Rosie Parker, altoAndrew Griffiths, Jonathan Hanley & Matthew Howard, tenorJames Arthur, Simon Gallear & Nathan Harrison, bass WHEN: Friday, February 18, 2022 at 8pmSt. Paul Church, Bow & Arrow Streets, Cambridge, MAVirtual Premiere: Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8pm ETAvailable until Friday, March
Bloomington, Indiana-based Forgotten Clefs (Renaissance Wind Ensemble) tells the story of The Very Last Castle, adapted from the picture book by Travis Jonker, using music, dance, costumes, and props. The story includes themes of friendship, courage, and diversity, as the curious child, Ibb, builds up the courage to enter the modern city’s castle, despite warnings
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