The Lamont School of Music and Colorado College will co-present The Brandenburg Project on May 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the Newman ...
The battle rages on. Or does it? Are performances of Baroque music played on historic and modern instruments so different? An audience will have a chance to decide Sunday, when members of the ...
Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...
As concert halls remain closed, period-instrument orchestra Boston Baroque is jumping into the watch-at-home game with Boston Baroque Live, its first-ever streaming platform for recorded performances.
Ever wondered what makes Boston Baroque performances special? Boston Baroque’s world-class musicians will lead you in a deep dive into the world of period instruments. Host Brian McCreath is joined by ...
“Don Giovanni” is undoubtedly one of the most loved, feared, and praised works in the operatic repertoire. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, it ...
Hurdy-gurdies, lutes and the occasional sackbut: For 14 years, the College of William and Mary’s Early Music Ensemble has brought medieval, renaissance and baroque music to life with reproductions of ...
Growing up in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, some of Ahmed Anzaldúa’s earliest musical memories involve sitting at home, listening to recordings of — what else? — composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental ...
“Songs” that aren’t sung but spoken — and an operatic fragment accompanied by male-female stage combat. The double bill presented by Pacific Musicworks and the Seattle Chamber Players at On the Boards ...
It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...
Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...