“After almost four years as Executive Director of Early Music America, I am leaving on August 6 to take up the position of Administrative Director of the Historical Performance program at The Juilliard School in New York.”
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June 24, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Popular Consorts, Songs, and Dances The Violators, a renegade consort of viols, recorders, voices, and “air viol” (aka English concertina), return with a repertoire of airs, consort songs, and country dances from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in Great Britain. Sarah Cunningham ~ treble viol Lisa Terry ~
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I find myself returning to this album over and over again for its spectacular research and remarkable subject matter, contributions in world-premiere recordings, and incomparable musicianship.
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June 17, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Trading Places The harpsichord takes a vocal line in an aria by Bach. The violin is relegated to accompaniment in a keyboard sonata by the 8-year-old Mozart. in a sonata by Corelli, harpsichord and violin exchange short, pithy remarks, then grand virtuosic statements. This program is about “trading places”,
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Featuring a hybrid in-person and streaming concert series in collaboration with Boston public media producer GBH and new global streaming partner IDAGIO. Five concert season features a new production of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula with Anthony Roth Costanzo, the return of the beloved Handel’s Messiah and New Year’s Celebration concerts, and more
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A Bach Keyboard Extravaganza featuring Matthew Dirst, harpsichordist & organist: Premiere streaming June 24, 2021. The Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, collaborates with Ars Lyrica, Houston (co-producer), and San Francisco Early Music Society (co-presenter), to present this new immersive virtual concert film to the widest audience. Now in its 41st year, the Baroque Music
June 3, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Sonate guerrieri ed amorosi More than a century before Liszt’s and Berlioz’s names became synonymous with programmatic music, Giuseppe Tartini’s instrumental evocation of Tasso and Virgil was so powerful that he himself was reported to go into a mystical trance while playing. Jude Ziliak and Elliot Figg will
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May 27, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Live Baroque Music and Dance BALAM Dance Theatre presents a multi-disciplinary program, featuring excerpts from the Leycester Lyra Viol manuscript (1670), Scottish tunes by Francesco Barsanti (1742), Toccata Arpegiatta by Giovanni Kaspberger (1604), Prelude in d minor and Fandango by Maestro Matias (1786), and choreography by Carlos Fittante. This
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May 20, 2021, 1:15pm EDT Bohemian Rhapsody Music from the Kromeriz Archive in Moravia, including some of the most popular, original and striking of all 5-part music by Heinrich Schmelzer, Biber, and Biber’s colleague Pavel Vejvanovský. In his capacity as librarian and copyist, Vejvanovský, is largely to thank for assembling this vast corpus of music.
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