contributed by Benjamin K. Roe Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes, Levels of Life In modern times, going to the opera can break your wallet as well as your heart. If you’d care to catch tonight’s Metropolitan Opera […]
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contributed by Benjamin K. Roe If you placed your cello on a mountaintop, and let the wind play it, it may very well sound like the Prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1. That remark, uttered by a cello-playing colleague, has always stuck in my mind. The physics behind the poetry is that Bach uses
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contributed by Benjamin K. Roe A modern art museum – replete with works by such illustrious 20th-century artists as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Jean Tinguely and Andy Warhol – would probably not be the first place you’d be looking to find a great Early Music Month event. But examine the canvas a little more
Modern Art, Modern Technology, Early Music: Bach @ The Bechtler Read More »
Click to read the Spring 2016 Issue (must be logged in to view content). On The Cover: “A recent press trip to Israel piqued my interest in that fascinating country’s early-music scene. Israel is at once ancient and new, like so much of what we are trying to do in our field, and I was
Spring 2016 EMAg “Musical Miracles” Out Now! Read More »
contributed by Benjamin K. Roe In our first Early Music Month post we noted that there is hardly a consensus about just what the end point of the “Early Music” epoch should be, particularly since in recent years there have been notable (and radically different sounding!) “historically informed” performances of recordings of Brahms, Berlioz, and
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