EMA’s monthly featured member profile. Pedro Funes is currently the Assistant Orchestra Director at Oak Ridge High School in Conroe, Texas. He graduated from the University of Houston where he majored in Double Bass performance under Dennis Whittaker. He was the Head Orchestra director at Park View Intermediate School for 3 years. In addition, he received his Master’s Degree in Early Music at Indiana […]
Center Stage, August 2017: Pedro Funes Read More »
Summary For over 30 years, Early Music America (EMA) has served as the service organization for the field of early music in North America. EMA fosters the performance, scholarship and community of early music through grants, awards, competitions, and festivals. Founded in 1985, EMA provides its over 2,000 members with publications, resources, advocacy, networking and
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The festival will mark its 50th-anniversary season with a host of enticing programs. “If music be the food of love, play on,” begins the most famous opening speech in Shakespeare. The line also supplies the title for the concert that will launch the 50th-anniversary season of Indianapolis Early Music’s Early Music Festival. The opening event
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Contributed by Benjamin K Roe It was no easy task to compose seven adagios lasting ten minutes each, and to succeed one another without fatiguing the listeners; indeed, I found it quite impossible to confine myself to the appointed limits. – Franz Joseph Haydn Next to the Christmas holidays, there is no other time of
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Article contributed by Benjamin K. Roe Yes, ‘tis the season for shamrocks, leprechauns, and a bender or two. A good time to check in on a new program just launched by the long-running West Coast baroque ensemble Musica Pacifica – a group that plays, in the words of critic Schwartz, “with both liveliness and a
contributed by Benjamin K. Roe Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes, Levels of Life In modern times, going to the opera can break your wallet as well as your heart. If you’d care to catch tonight’s Metropolitan Opera
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A recent press trip to Israel piqued my interest in that fascinating country’s early-music scene. Israel is at once ancient and new, like so much of what we are trying to do in our field, and I was curious about the history of the early-music revival, the active and retired performers and teachers, and the
