Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘I didn’t set out to create an institution,’ says music director Martin Pearlman. But that’s exactly what this group has become. The early music movement was in its fledgling days in 1973. That’s when ...

Maestro Michael Sand has been Angelo Moreno’s “Baroque Musical Mentor” for the past 30 years and what better way to express his thanks than by throwing a concert at the Richard Brunelle Performance ...

Five Boroughs Music Festival, in partnership with Portland Baroque Orchestra and Great Arts. Period., presents the world premiere of Juxtapositions: Old and New Music for Baroque Instruments, a ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. Fans ...

For the holiday season, Jeanette Sorrel conducts the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, in a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Each day this week, Performance Today is presenting the ...

The Baroque period (roughly 1600–1750) was a time of great creativity and change in music. Composers began to focus more on expressing emotions clearly and powerfully. One of the most important ideas ...

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