The Tallis Scholars are back in Greater Boston with music for the Virgin Mary from the English Renaissance on Friday, December 5 ARTISTS: The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips, Director LOCATION: Friday, December 5, 2025 at 8pm ET St. Paul Church, Cambridge, MA Virtual Premiere: Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 8pm ET Available until Saturday, December 27, […]
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Looking for ancient voices from his native Ecuador, Felipe Ledesma Núñez turned to ceramics and the sounds of his ancestors. He sees a problem in the humanities, ‘that we are privileging the written word. And those kinds of systems are ill-suited: They cannot carry sound.’
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The Cambridge Society for Early Music P.O. Box 380-336 Cambridge, MA 02238-0336 The Cambridge Society for Early Music seeks interns for Spring/Summer ‘26 Cambridge Society for Early Music offers arts administration internships for college and masters students during the fall, spring, and summer. Our internships are intended to provide students with a well-balanced, educational experience
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The Sociable Fortepiano (March 5–9, 2026, New York City) is a new artist residency, workshop, and mini-festival reimagining fortepiano musicking as a space of connection and experimentation. Funded by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and curated by Yi-heng Yang (Juilliard) and Patricia GarcÃa Gil (Cornell CCHK), the initiative invites performers, scholars, and technicians—including
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Escape to the stage with Ann Ford (1737-1824)! When British socialite Ann Ford’s father demanded that she marry a man 30-years her senior (who had attempted to pay for her hand in marriage), she was desperate to find a way out. With money she borrowed from her well-to-do friends, Ann rented out some of London’s most
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On the hills outside Florence sits the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri, where nuns once supported themselves by spinning wool and making wine. But the heart of their lives was musical prayer. A bit of detective work connected two 16th c. nuns with a musical manuscript and, now, a glorious new recording.
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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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