Pokorny Brothers Go For Baroque And More
The Pokorny brothers — Romaric, Corentin, and Emmeran — are deeply embedded in the musical life of Seattle and surrounding areas.
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BOOK REVIEW: Cousser: An Obscure Musician No Longer
This wonderful and much-needed monograph not only provides the essential information about Cousser’s life and career, but also allows us to examine the contents of a precious little book, pocket-sized, that Cousser kept and wrote in from the 1690s until his death.
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CD REVIEW: Exploring 16th-Century Consort Works
The pieces range from (largely untexted) Magnificats, motets, and anthems to French, Italian, and English secular music and more than 60 instrumental works.
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BOOK REVIEW: Sorting Out Keyboard Quandaries
The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons from Scarlatti to Beethoven. Eva Badura-Skoda. Indiana University Press, 2017. 492 pages. By Peter Sykes BOOK REVIEW — What’s in a name? Before our current era of branding, new inventions were called many different things by their inventors and spectators. In The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its
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Notes From The Berkeley Festival
Berkeley and Boston’s every-other-year festivals have long been on the schedules of musicians and music lovers alike, and this year’s Berkeley Festival had the same schedule of morn-til-night music, all within a few square blocks.
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