Kate Steinbeck understands: Not everyone knows about chamber music. The artistic director of Pan Harmonia is happy to demystify the genre that began as entertainment for royalty. Before the flutist …
Pan Harmonia launches its 16th season of chamber music Read More »
“I am writing to you with an erection on my head and I am very much afraid of burning my hair”, wrote Nannerl Mozart to her brother Wolfgang Amadeus. What …
On the heels of its bicentennial, the Handel and Haydn Society has appointed a new president and CEO. David Snead, currently vice president of marketing, brand, and customer experience at …
New Works for Viola da Gamba (Viol) & Piano Works should be original, unpublished, and composed for an acoustic 7-string viola da gamba (bass viol) and piano (modern piano; with …
Quick! What’s the most important issue in the arts? Is it declining audiences? The fact that it’s so hard to make a living as an artist? Changing demographics and cultural …
Sometimes I look around at what we’re NOT doing, especially when compared to other sectors, and I just don’t get it. I’ve give you some examples: I. I was watching …
To be honest, my friendship with Michael Tilson Thomas hasn’t gone quite as I had hoped. It started in February 1990, when he chose a Tallis Scholars track for one …
Orchestral conductors would be much better if they tried performing Renaissance music Read More »
The sounds are, of course, what you first notice in an orchestra class. Chairs scooting into place, bows knocking against hollow wooden instruments as students set up, sheet music rattling …
Teddy Abrams: “All major arts organizations should not only have musicians on staff but there should also be a department of composition; people who are composing for the moment. In …
These clefs come from “autograph copies” of each composer’s music — versions that they handwrote. Each is just an example, not necessarily how a composer always wrote. And the composers …
Master composers used to handwrite their music. Some were complete slobs Read More »