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I came to early music through my love for the traditional music of Ireland and the Irish language, so when I discovered the compositions of the blind Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan (Gaeilge: Toirdhealbhach O’Cearbhallain), it was love at first listen. Bridget Cruise was the daughter of a noble family. O’Carolan fell in love with her […]

Monteverdi’s “Duo Seraphim,” from the Vespers of 1610, is in my ear because I am teaching a course about Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). This very musical English Puritan — his father was a composer; he himself played the gamba and the organ, and loved to sing — is as far removed from the Italian and

This is a haunting meoldy of loss, the loss of love and the loss of the Sephardic world. The performance shows off the way a great ensemble can make a ballad of many verses and repeats infinitely interesting. Laurie Camm Arizona Early Music Society EMA Board Member

I want to live in this sound world! Lirone, cornetto, and three theorbos? It’s fantastic. Ruby Brallier Master’s Student in Baroque Cello and Viola da Gamba Emerging Professional Leadership Council Member

Shawms and Stories brings a 30-minute musical storytelling program for 5th-6th grade children and their families to libraries, museums, and community centers in South-Central Indiana.