A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie recently gained recognition beyond Brooklyn with their soundtrack for the video game Pentiment (directed by Obsidian studios and published by Xbox). Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Cambridge Society for Early […]
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Seattle’s SHAK, Chicago’s Stevenson High School, and a new start-up, Lute4Kids in upstate New York, are among the few U.S. early-music programs devoted to hands-on, pre-collegiate education. It’s a pipeline the field must nurture if it’s to thrive.
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Robert L. Kendrick’s ambitious new monograph, a detailed look at the oratorio in Catholic Italy and Hapsburg Vienna, covers more than a century of repertoire, connecting Biblical stories — fratricide, child sacrifice, forbidden love, death — with political events and considers the social and moral impact on the listeners.
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From the Publications Director: ‘There’s an old joke about the social sciences where the exam questions are the same year after year but it’s the correct answers that change. The early-music field isn’t so different, where there’s a fundamental ambition — how did it sound when it was new? — but the ways in which that’s presented, and how it comes across for the listener, seem to change with each generation.’
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September 18, 2025 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Zen Edwards, Executive Director · cell (310) 227-0539 · press@bmf-cdm.org Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, Previews Its 46th Season and Introduces First Family Concert **NEWPORT BEACH—**The Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar—Newport Beach’s only professional arts organization devoted exclusively to classical music—leaps into fall with two
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Four Japanese boys, students at a Jesuit missionary school in the 1580s, were sent on an eight-year tour of Europe. Tracing this fascinating but fraught history for a concert program meant accepting a host of practical, historical, and ethical challenges.
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Gathering for an English country dance is like taking a walk through the history of social dance and music, much of it based on Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master.’ Always a popular and fun night out, the art form today attracts a broad range of participants and is sometimes backed by an early-music band.
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Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble14 High StCambridge, MA 02138 August 21, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sarasa Ensemble opens 2025-26 Concert Season with program celebrating America’s 250th: “@1775: Boston, London, Paris & Vienna” As part of the semiquincentennial celebration of our nation and the Battles of Lexington and Concord taking place in Eastern Massachusetts in 2025, Sarasa
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August 18, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Cambridge Society for Early Music presents its first full Concert Season since 2020 CSEM presents its 2025-26 Concert Season, the organization’s first full Concert Season since 2020, and the first under the new leadership of Artistic Director Annette Klein and General Manager Sarah Vandewalle. With three distinct ensembles
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(CLEVELAND) – Les Délices, the renowned early music ensemble, is proud to announce the details of its 2025-26 season, Metamorphosis. The dynamic season includes four subscription concerts, a number of special concerts and regional engagements, free programs, virtual concerts, and a new CD release. Les Délices’ Artistic Director Debra Nagy explained the inspiration for the season’s name, “As
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