GREAT BARRINGTON — Growing up in Chile, Christine Gevert remembers folk music was everywhere. Gevert, the founder and artistic director of the Connecticut-based music organization Crescendo, spent her ...

From cabaret to Western country to blues to pre-19th-century composers, the Beatles’ eclectic musical tastes certainly helped color their unique style. Such was the case for “Blackbird,” the third ...

Performances of Baroque-era music typically feature works by composers whose names are familiar even to first-time concertgoers. Orchestra New England‘s upcoming BaroqueFest 2011 concert program would ...

We know Braille as a system of writing for the blind, but it was created for music, too. Louis Braille was a musician as well as a scholar, and his system made it possible to read and write music by ...

“We have music by Baroque composers with very festive trumpet and timpani and string orchestra, and contemporary repertoire [which] is fresh and atmospheric.” Alongside more recognizable instruments, ...

If you do a Google search for “Baroque composers,” of course, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi and Telemann come up first. Scrolling further down those result rankings are a variety of Baroque ...

The Christmas concert season in New Orleans comes to a close this evening in the Ursuline Convent’s St. Mary’s Church in the French Quarter, when Lyrica Baroque, a five-member chamber music group, ...

PARADISE — There are two upcoming concerts in Chico and Paradise for music lovers to enjoy. First up is the Paradise Symphony concert at 3 p.m. March 10 called “Around the World in 80 minutes” — a ...

Conductor Daniel Price reveres German composer Johann Sebastian Bach as one of the greats. The ChoralSong founder links Bach’s contributions to music to those of Shakespeare’s to writing, or ...

Every year at this time, I compile a list of some of my favorite recent recordings to recommend for your holiday gift giving. For many years the goal has been pretty straightforward: to give you ...