This new album by the Swiss viol consort Musicke & Mirth marks the recorded world premiere of both his dances and his secular songs. The material is at once strikingly new and strangely familiar.
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A highly dedicated and resourceful senior nonprofit leader with broad experience, Felter initiated and implemented many critical updates during her tenure including the hiring of a new magazine editor, the re-design of EMAg, The Magazine of Early Music America, and a much-improved re-designed website with integrated database. Other significant projects included the launch of Early Music Month and MeetUps.
Ann Felter, Executive Director of EMA, To Step Down Read More »
The Bay Area musicologist Richard Taruskin, a prolific and wide-ranging scholar whose work has challenged conventional notions of music history and performance, has won the prestigious Kyoto Prize — the first music scholar to win the award.
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Derek Tam helps youngsters blossom at the Montessori Children’s School in San Francisco as they become more familiar with instruments and learn how to focus on musical concepts and works.
Planting The Wondrous Seeds Of Music Read More »
In recent years, our understanding of the development of the Classical Viennese style has changed dramatically, all due to one composer: Johann Baptist Vanhal. While Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven still tend to be household names, Vanhal is not. And yet, as the Eybler Quartet points out on its new recording, he was in fact quite the groundbreaker.
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