Once dismissed as “fringe events,” musical salons hosted by women in the 18th c. are rightly seen as an invaluable source. Rebecca Cypess’ engaging new book makes connections “that might otherwise go unnoticed.”
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (February 2024)– Chatham Baroque welcomes Grammy-award winning Baroque group, Apollo’s Fire, for their “Violin Fantasy” performance. The program, an album release concert, will be held on February 18th,
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Like a jukebox musical, a pasticcio opera takes hit tunes from an artist or era and stitches them together with a bespoke plot. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Portland Baroque Orchestra is set to perform ‘Dinner with Handel,’ a pasticcio where the great composer is caught in a surprise dinner party—revealing the man and his complicated relationships.
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BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima on February 3 and the quartet Le Consort on February 23, both in Cambridge, MA ARTIST: Opera PrimaAmanda Forsythe, sopranoCristiano Contadin, directorAndrea Inghisciano, cornetto; Mauro
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Guest editorial: We are in the midst of a global mass extinction caused by a rapid change in climate. The scale of these problems means that the crisis cannot be addressed without action from the world’s most powerful governments — and they have utterly failed to respond. It’s an attitude of enjoying order (and short-term profits) more than pursuing justice. This comes despite years of scientists’ and citizens’ good-faith efforts to work within the system. To shake our friends’ complacency was our goal in disrupting the Met Opera…
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Piffaro’s next concert performances – February 11 in Tucson, March 15-17 in Philadelphia and Wilmington, and streaming online March 29 to April 11 – will transport audiences to the court
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Baroque Music Montana presents a three day workshop for modern and baroque performers, exploring historic style and general musicianship in beautiful downtown Bozeman, Montana. Events include chamber music, orchestra, lectures,
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This newly-devised opera pasticcio by Librettist Stephen Pettitt and Portland Baroque Orchestra’s Artistic Director Julian Perkins set for February 10 &11 Portland, Ore. — Portland Baroque Orchestra kicks off 2024
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Early Music Missouri (EMMo) presents “At Court & Coffee House” with three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-known secular pieces, the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerti 4 and 5 and the charming Coffee
Making Connections We look forward to gathering the early-music community as we host our first in-person Summit in Boston, MA, October 24-26, 2023. The theme of EMA’s first in-person Summit,
