NYS Baroque Serves French Treats
After closing last year’s season with a magnificent presentation of the Monteverdi Vespers—one of the Ithaca community’s best classical musical events in years—the early music ensemble NYS Baroque, in its …
After closing last year’s season with a magnificent presentation of the Monteverdi Vespers—one of the Ithaca community’s best classical musical events in years—the early music ensemble NYS Baroque, in its …
The visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia is of course a celebration, but its centerpiece is the heart of Catholic practice: a Mass. The Philadelphia Orchestra is honored to provide …
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Hamilton, MT – Bitterroot Baroque will open its 2015-2016 season of performances with a concert by Agave Baroque and the acclaimed countertenor Reginald Mobley on Sept. 25. Alex Shaffer, president …
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As the semi-millennial observances of the Protestant Reformation approach, Boston’s First Lutheran Church has announced a series of “Bach” Vespers services beginning next Saturday evening; these will also celebrate the …
Since 1990, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra has faced many challenges in its mission to establish a viable authentic instrument/period practice ensemble here on the West Coast. That it has survived …
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This evening’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony will live long in the memory for many reasons, not least for the astounding display of virtuosity of this year’s Young Artist of …
A very unique festival in the gardens of a country house in Vendée, North-west France; a Baroque music festival in the open air, amid clipped hedges and plants, or on …
Choral conductor, organist and composer Sir David Willcocks died peacefully at home aged 95. Born in Newquay, Cornwall, Willcocks was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and music scholar at Clifton College, Bristol …
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How many arts organizations are needed to make an opera sing? In the case of the Opera Columbus production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide, it’s the more, the merrier. For the …
‘Rewarding’ collaborations to enchant in Lully opera Read More »
Craig Tomlinson got into harpsichord making while the getting was good. It was the 1970s. Baroque music was enjoying a revival and period instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries …