Early Music Month we’ll catch up recipients of our Summer Workshop Scholarship over the past 20 years to see the many ways continue to contribute to the field of early music.
Where are they now? Summer Workshop Scholarship Recipients, pt. 1 Read More »
Welcome to March — otherwise known as Early Music Month — where our goal is to help the world become aware of the vitality of the early music community in North America. Throughout these 31 days, Early Music America will do our part by shining a spotlight on individuals and organizations, concerts, lectures, play-days, workshops, and more throughout the early music community.
Welcome to Early Music Month! Read More »
Birthday concerts are planned around the world to celebrate François Couperin, whose voluminous catalog of harpsichord music will have a prominent place amid performances of many of his other works.
Happy 350th, François! Read More »
Pacific MusicWorks Underground presents about 40 concerts a year around the greater Seattle area at places like a brewery or winery, a pub, or an event room in an apartment building.
Music All Over The Place (In Seattle, That Is) Read More »
While previous New York Early Music Celebrations had as many as 90 events, this year’s schedule listed a more manageable 21 public concerts and a handful of educational and private events. Any local ensemble performing Oct. 13-22 was eligible for inclusion in the celebration, which is led by Frederick Renz.
New York Celebration Esteems Local Artists Read More »
The Waits, performing mainly on wind instruments — shawms, dulcians, cornetts, and sackbuts — filled the city’s expanding musical needs. Widely hailed as England’s best musicians, in addition to their civic duties the London Waits may have given the first public concerts in England beginning in 1571. This brilliant album pays homage to their important role in London’s musical life around the turn of the 17th century.
City Musick Triumphs Toasting Topping Tooters Read More »
Warsaw-based musicologist Szymon Paczkowski is uniquely qualified to undertake the first comprehensive study of this subject. The author first describes the characteristic rhythmic and structural features of the dance and the affects associated with it, and traces how it came to be introduced into Germany.
Bach’s Use Of Polonaise Persuasively Explored Read More »
The world is throwing a grand anniversary party this year for one of the most deserving and long-overlooked artists in Baroque music, Georg Philipp Telemann. Everyone seems to be celebrating Telemann’s 250th Deathiversary: festivals, broadcasts, exhibitions, tributes, and tours are taking place from British Columbia to Australia.Â
Telemann 360°: Philadelphia Gives Telemann a Rousing Anniversary Celebration Read More »
The Cleveland-based ensemble Les Délices focuses on an enticing selection of pieces: core Baroque genres, familiar French style, but repertoire far outside the typical offerings. As the liner notes point out, the composers here were among the last of their kind; this recording encapsulates the end of the Baroque era, and this moment in French history, in a series of rich, intricate works.
Artistic Indulgences Performed With Panache Read More »
The secret of the Boston Early Music Festival’s success is an ensemble framework that radiates from the centerpiece opera. “Le Carnaval de Venise” by André Campra provided not only a thematic focus for the festival but also the structural resources for many of its other events.
BEMF Animates Campra Opera-Ballet And More Read More »
