Alan Curtis, Baroque music pioneer – obituary
Alan Curtis, who has died aged 80, was a harpsichordist, musicologist and pioneer in the restoration of Baroque music who brought some of the earliest known operas from the specialist …
‘Distinguished artist’ John Thiessen surveys the Baroque trumpet repertoire
Last night the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall saw the annual Distinguished Artist Series recital for the American Bach Soloists (ABS) Festival 2015. The featured soloist was John …
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John Scott (1956-2015)
Saint Thomas Church is heartbroken by the sudden death of John Scott, Organist and Director of Music, on Wednesday, August 12. John returned to New York on August 11 after …
17th-century HMS London gun carriage lifted from Southend seabed
Gun carriage from ship that mysteriously sank, and captured the attention of Samuel Pepys, emerges in startlingly good condition (Video in link). A unique 17th-century gun carriage has been successfully …
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Twin Cities Early Music Festival: Where you can get your lute on
Among classical music enthusiasts, lovers of early music can seem something like sci-fi nerds, except that they are obsessed with the past, not the future. The early music crowd turns …
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Sutures With A Soundtrack: Music Can Ease Pain, Anxiety of Surgery
Hospitals have a free and powerful tool that they could use more often to help reduce the pain that surgery patients experience: music. Scores of studies over the years have …
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Music of the Spheres
Who knows if we’ll ever learn what projects the late Alan Curtis, the out specialist in 17th- and 18th-century music, had underway when he died suddenly in July? But it’s …
Is Apple Taking Over the Music Business?
As of early August, Apple Music, the company’s long-awaited on-demand streaming service, seemed to be a success: Overcoming technical glitches and complaints about a complex interface, Apple announced 11 million …