September 2024
Vol. 30 No. 3, September 2024
Apply Today for Arizona Early Music’s 2025 Emerging Ensemble Residency
Arizona Early Music is now accepting applications for the 2025 Emerging Ensemble Residency. Click Here to Apply (Due November 1, 2024)2025 EER Fact Sheet (PDF) AEM’s 2025 Emerging Ensemble Residency (EER) will provide one ensemble of between 2 and 6 historical performance specialists the opportunity to rehearse, perform, and hone their craft during a 9-day
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First-Ever Burlington Baroque Festival, September 26-29, 2024
New Musical Organization Announces the First Annual Burlington Baroque Festival, September 26-29, 2024 Burlington Baroque presents five performances featuring internationally-acclaimed festival Artists-in-Residence L’Harmonie des saisons Baroque Orchestra, with the Burlington Baroque Festival Singers. Burlington, VT — Burlington Baroque, a new musical organization founded and directed by Eric Milnes, announces the first annual Burlington Baroque Festival
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Musicians of the Old Post Road Announces 2024/25 Season: Flights of Fancy
The Boston-based period instrument chamber ensemble Musicians of the Old Post Road is proud to announce its 36th season. Entitled “Flights of Fancy,” the concert series aims to ignite curiosity and inspire the imagination with the ensemble’s signature blend of musical “rediscoveries” in dialogue with beloved 18th-century works. For over 35 years, Musicians of the
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Nurturing New Ensembles in the Arizona Desert
Early-music presenting organizations mostly hire touring ensembles. Yet many programs that foster the next generation focus on talented individual musicians. So Arizona Early Music created the Emerging Ensemble Residency, where a young group is set up with a mentor and works on both performance and the business of being a professional touring ensemble. The inaugural award goes to Montreal’s Le Consort laurentien, whose residency starts this month.
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Hidden Narratives in Handel Operas
Handel’s operas tell vivid stories in a complex, even idiosyncratic, manner that is not readily apparent even to a passionate Handelian. This brilliant book offers an eloquent account of the underlying processes at work, calling on broad examples — including classical literature, Shakespeare, novels, film — of the same narrative strategies.
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Hearing Complexity in the Jewish Diaspora
In this review-essay, noted scholar Rebecca Cypess speaks to Ian Pomerantz and Byron Schenkman with a view to understanding the multifaceted contributions of their album, ‘Art Songs of the Jewish Diaspora,’ both musically and culturally.
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Renaissance Innovation, Roman Expression
Rome was second only to Venice in music publishing in 15th-century Italy. Jane A. Bernstein’s new book details Roman publishers’ ingenuity in meeting musicians’ needs — with insights into composition and performance practice of the era. It’s also a look into the ‘synergistic relationship’ between technological innovation and the diversity of musical expression.
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In Memoriam: James Nicolson
We remember harpsichordist and virginalist James Nicolson, who passed away last week. He was lauded as one of the most esteemed figures in America’s early-music community.
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