Percussionist Rex Benincasa writes about adding sounds and spices to music where there’s little or no historical guidance, from the European high Baroque to Mediterranean North Africa and the court of the Tang Dynasty. Much of what he plays was never written down.
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The Sociable Fortepiano (March 5–9, 2026, New York City) is a new artist residency, workshop, and mini-festival reimagining fortepiano musicking as a space of connection and experimentation. Funded by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and curated by Yi-heng Yang (Juilliard) and Patricia García Gil (Cornell CCHK), the initiative invites performers, scholars, and technicians—including
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Baroque violinist Danqi Zeng, born in China and currently a doctoral student at Indiana Univ., won the 2025 Barbash J.S. Bach Competition. The prize includes $10,000 and at least five concert engagements in the coming seasons. ‘Zeng’s Bach spoke profoundly,’ remarked one juror, ‘and with an immediacy made more palpable by the unforced resonance of her Baroque instrument.’
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Seattle’s SHAK, Chicago’s Stevenson High School, and a new start-up, Lute4Kids in upstate New York, are among the few U.S. early-music programs devoted to hands-on, pre-collegiate education. It’s a pipeline the field must nurture if it’s to thrive.
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Pioneering American folklorist Francis James Child, born 200 years ago, will be celebrated this week for his lasting cultural influence, especially for his collection known as the Child Ballads. Today, folk revivals ‘find an essence of identity against the commodification of culture,’ protesting how ‘everything can be sold.’
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Registration Now Open! For the seventh consecutive year, the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival and its circle of friends are opening up applications to the Early Music Competition for young ensembles. When The ensembles present themselves to the jury and audience in a series of lunchtime concerts as part of the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival on
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Julia Bengtsson has found her footing as an acclaimed dancer, choreographer, and unstoppable entrepreneur. At the 2025 EMA Virtual Summit, Oct. 18, Bengtsson will co-present ‘Anatomy of a Dance,’ demonstrating connections between music and dance, followed by a brief performance.
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From the Publications Director: ‘There’s an old joke about the social sciences where the exam questions are the same year after year but it’s the correct answers that change. The early-music field isn’t so different, where there’s a fundamental ambition — how did it sound when it was new? — but the ways in which that’s presented, and how it comes across for the listener, seem to change with each generation.’
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The Pandora Consort is set to premiere an original folk opera about women’s liberation in the United States through centuries of music and stories. The folk opera, The Fire Within Her: An American Folktale About Women’s Liberation weaves together the voices of trailblazing women across centuries in early North America. From Anne Hutchinson’s defiance in
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For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 18, 2025 CONTACTJoanna BoyleGeneral ManagerMusicians of the Old Post Road781.466.6694musicians@oldpostroad.org MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD Presents Brilliant Borrowings Saturday, October 25, 2025, 4:00 pmFirst Parish Church, Sudbury, MA Sunday, October 26, 2025, 4:00 pmOld South Church, Boston, MA and live-streamed at www.oldpostroad.org In-person Audience Tickets $10-$55, kids come free with
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