Early Music America is pleased to announce Eric Rice as the recipient of the 2019 Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a university or college early music ensemble. This award is named for the legendary lutenist and educator Thomas Binkley, who taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, made […]
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Early Music America is pleased to announce Nina Stern and S’Cool Sounds as recipients of the 2019 Laurette Goldberg Award for lifetime achievement in early music outreach and/or educational projects for children or adults by ensembles and individual artists. The Laurette Goldberg Award is named for Laurette Goldberg, the extraordinary teacher, performer, author, and founder of
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Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients: Eric Rice (Thomas Binkley Award), Lyle Nordstrom (Howard Mayer Brown Award), and S’Cool Sounds (Laurette Goldberg Award).
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I was writing a research paper in undergraduate school on Antonio Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico, Op. 3, discussing the differences between concerto and concerto grosso. I picked some old recording in the library to listen to, but I wasn’t particularly inspired. After meeting with my musicology professor, he said, “Oh no. Listen to THIS recording by
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Coinciding with the culmination of Quebec’s Revolution Tranquille (1960-1975), an increasing awareness of the non-conformist early-music movement in Europe started spreading in the province as recordings were made available in the early 1970s.
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