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The Los Angeles composers will perform during Present Music’s “Baroque Pop!” on May 25 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Wrapping up its 10th season with its annual Summer Concert, Lyrica Baroque will be venturing into new territory as it dips ...
The musicians are using Baroque-era replicas, including trumpets with no valves, wooden oboes, and even a real harpsichord, all designed to recreate the original sound of Handel’s time.
Join the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra for an enchanting evening of 18th-century French music at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Experience the brilliance of renowned composers and the artistry of ...
Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra, has come a long way since its founding more than three decades ago by artistic ...
He is as busy as ever as a leader of the period-instrument movement ... to the things that I think make my music eloquent: old instruments and being faithful I think to performance practice.” ...
(Vincent Pontet via AP) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — William Christie, a conductor renowned for Baroque performances ... as busy as ever as a ...
William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, administering his Les Arts Florissants orchestral and vocal ensemble and teaching at ...
Based in Kingston, Ontario, the Melos Choir and Period Instruments is a renowned ensemble dedicated to performing early music from the renaissance and baroque periods. Founded on a passion for ...
The group varies in size and composition as they perform a variety of music from the Baroque period ( the years 1600 to 1750 or so); it can include strings (violin, viola, cello, bass), harpsichord, ...
Holly is a distinguished baroque violinist with a deep connection to the music of the Baroque period. As she says the album offers the three elements of her musical personality: the Baroque, the new ...
Not for nothing does the Irish Baroque Orchestra call itself Ireland ... Some are old, dating back to the 1700s; most are copies of period instruments, made using 18th-century techniques.