Listen Now: I bite my thumb at thee!
We’re going against the grain with some of the most radical musical diversions from the norm, courtesy of bold, iconoclastic, or legitimately insane composers. Bending or almost breaking most rules …
The 2015 Fall EMAg is here! Early-Music Leaders Go Modern
A Season Begins by Donald Rosenberg One of the missions of EMAg is to explore the new in the old—to discover how music that’s been around for a long time …
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Career Opportunity: Part-time Special Projects Coordinator
EMA is currently going through a period of renewal and reevaluation of its programs, work methods, and practices, making it a very exciting time to be involved and have a …
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Bach Society is a must-go at Twin Cities Early Music Festival
The Bach Society of Minnesota was “HIP” before it was hip. “HIP” stands for “historically informed performance” — i.e., doing it darn close to the way it was played back …
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The Lady Gaga Fugue and other incredible Baroque-inspired arrangements of pop songs
Bach doesn’t care how many Twitter followers you have – if you steal his fugues, the grandfather of counterpoint will come back to haunt you. Lady Gaga used an eight-second …
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What the critics are saying about conductor Nicholas McGegan
Schubert and Handel at Severance. Mozart and Bach at Blossom. Between the Cleveland Orchestra’s two programs this weekend, there’s no overlap beyond Haydn with principal cellist Mark Kosower. Lucky for …
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Canonici offers early music workshop, free concert at Christ Episcopal
The bare, resonant walls of Tacoma’s Christ Episcopal Church will ring with the lush polyphony of 16th-century Spain this weekend as professional early music vocal group Canonici both leads a …
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Musica Sonora to bid adieu at final concert
Musica Sonora, Tucson’s only professional early music ensemble, will perform its final concert on Sunday, ending a run that goes back decades and draws its roots to the University of …
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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