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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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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None of the artistic directors at these three festivals was ready to proclaim a new wave of Bach enthusiasm sweeping the region. In the Charlotte area, however, there is definitely something different in the air.
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New manuscripts of viola da gamba music by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–87) have been found in Poland, in the Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in a collection originating from the Maltzan family palace in Milicz (Poland).
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Interlochen’s College of Creative Arts is nearing the end of this week’s Early Music Workshop. This will be the final year of the Workshop for Program Director Mark Cudek, Chair of the Early Music department at the Peabody Institute and founding member of The Baltimore Consort. He’ll be handing over the reigns to Sarah Huebsch, a period oboist and performance practice specialist.
In Studio A with Early Music specialists Mark Cudek and Sarah Huebsch Read More »
