As the only English-language resource of its kind, Steve Zohn’s excellent book should be considered a long overdue and much welcomed addition for libraries and anyone with an interest in 18th-century music.
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Harpsishordist Satono Norizuki will discuss and demonstrate the clavisimbalum, a medieval precursor to the harpsichord, in her home performance for Midtown Concerts. The program includes the selections from the Codex Faenza 117 and Robertsbridge Codex, two of the earliest sources of liturgical and secular keyboard music. Watch on Facebook Live June 11, 1:15 PM EDT
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Livestream Begins at 1pm on Wednesday, May 27 Live from the Entrance Hall at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, David McCormick (baroque violin) and Loren Ludwig (viola da gamba) from Early Music Access Project present a free virtual concert examining various aspects of music-making in Jefferson’s Virginia. This concert is part of their multi-year series of musical
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Join Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra musician Phillip Serna 7pm Friday, May 22nd for a special benefit program – IPO Live Music Stream- Somewhere in Time – benefitting the IPO – which Phillip has been a member for nearly 2 decades! Phillip will perform Telemann’s recently rediscovered 1735 fantasias for solo Viola da Gamba! This is a PAY WHAT YOU CAN concert. Donations can be
Suor Isabella Leonarda (6 September, 1620 – 25 February, 1704) was the most prolific of all women composers in the 17th century. She published no fewer than 20 collections of motets and other sacred music, nearly 200 compositions spanning virtually every genre of sacred music of her time, as well as the only complete collection
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Musicians have been hit especially hard financially by the coronavirus outbreak because many are freelancers who earn money concert by concert and cannot count on full-time salaries or benefits such as health insurance.
How Period Musicians View The Pandemic Read More »
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, notions about restarting any public performances vary wildly. Geography matters. Organizational size. Repertoire has something to do with it — early music may have some advantage. Nobody suggests there is one answer.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Times London picks Apollo’s Fire as #1 for Bach St. John Passion Recordings & Music for the Soul Video Series reaches audiences far and wide Jeannette Sorrell, Conductor & Artistic Director “Perhaps most remarkable of all is the “chamber” version by the US group Apollo’s Fire, directed by Jeannette Sorrell as
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Nicholas McGegan looks back on his 34 years as music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, a tenure that ended suddenly amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Bidding A Baroque Adieu: End Of The McGegan Era At PBO Read More »
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