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Nurturing New Ensembles in the Arizona Desert

Early-music presenting organizations mostly hire touring ensembles. Yet many programs that foster the next generation focus on talented individual musicians. So Arizona Early Music created the Emerging Ensemble Residency, where a young group is set up with a mentor and works on both performance and the business of being a professional touring ensemble. The inaugural award goes to Montreal’s Le Consort laurentien, whose residency starts this month.

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In the Presence of Great Women

The Fieri Consort’s latest album, ‘The Excellence of Women,’ offers music by the two foremost women composers of the Italian Renaissance, including premieres by Maddalena Casulana, the first European woman to publish self-attributed music. Casuela is paired with Barbara Strozzi, who produced more secular music than any of her peers. The Fieri’s spectacular musicianship makes it ‘a necessary addition to anyone’s library.’

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