Baroque Dance for Musicians
Vol. 24 No. 1; January 2018
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Captivating Vivaldi From House Of Time
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons House of Time House of Time 888295612456 By Jeremy Reynolds CD Review — At home in New York City’s finest churches and coffee houses, the
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Summer Workshop Scholarship Reflection: Gemma Goday
This summer was intense, but also very inspiring. I don’t have the words to thank the support received by Early Music America with its scholarship to attend the Berwick Academy, held during the Oregon Bach Festival.
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Plot Thick With Music in Latest Jacobus Mystery
Along the way, we encounter heated debates about HIP (Historically Informed Performance) in Baroque music, questionable student evaluations of a professor coming up for tenure, and a great deal of discussion about the interpretation of violin music, which proves important to our understanding of this mystery.
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Music All Over The Place (In Seattle, That Is)
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.
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Podger And Friends Send Sonatas Aloft
The conceit for the recording seems to be a soirée in heaven in which the four violinist-composers discuss their craft and gossip about the musical scene of their day.
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New York Celebration Esteems Local Artists
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.
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City Musick Triumphs Toasting Topping Tooters
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.
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Bach’s Use Of Polonaise Persuasively Explored
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.
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2017 Summer Workshop Scholarship Reflection: Joseph Harris
My experience at TBSI gave me insight as to just how totally fun ensemble playing can be when you are working with musicians who share your passion and love for the music. I came away from the institute feeling inspired and encouraged to move forward with my efforts to continue my education and training in early music.
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