Baroque music

Elin and her friend Madeleine Owen (theorbo and baroque guitar will be giving a most interesting concert Tuesday, September 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the Maison d'arbre of Montreal's Jardin botanique as part of the Orgues et couleurs festival. The music they'll play is from the film Tous Les Matins Du Monde featuring works by Marais, Sainte-Colombe, de Visée and Couperin.The film is terrific: if you haven't seen it, rent it soon. It also changed Elin's life, as before she saw it she'd been a...Read Full Story

Elin and her friend Madeleine Owen (theorbo and baroque guitar will be giving a most interesting concert Tuesday, September 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the Maison d'arbre of Montreal's Jardin botanique as part of the Orgues et couleurs festival. The music they'll play is from the film Tous Les Matins Du Monde featuring works by Marais, Sainte-Colombe, de Visée and Couperin.The film is terrific: if you haven't seen it, rent it soon. It also changed Elin's life, as before she saw it she'd been a...Read Full Story

Elin will be giving her doctoral recital on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. in the Salle Claude-Champagne at the Université de Montréal. It should be an interesting musical and historical evening: the excellent musicans, soprano Hélèn Brunet, baroque flutist Boaz Berney, and harpsichordist Alexander Weimann will be particpating too. Entrance is free.The concert's title is Three Incarnations of the viola da gamba: viola batarda, lyra viol and division viol. While the three styles are quite...Read Full Story

The baroque chain print on this blouse from Motel reminds me so much of the Versace print, I adore it. Not easy to combine but with black you almost never can go wrong I guess. The black cape is from Chicwish, the pants are from Zara, the bag is from my shop Fashionzenvintage, the boots are from Romwe, the sunnies are from Rayban and the hat and necklace are from H&M.Have a great weekend my lovely readers!Read Full Story

European Interior Design European Interior Design,The 17th century is one of the most influential eras in history. This so-called Early Modern century was signified by the emergence of modern science and philosophy. Well-known inventions and discoveries made in the 1600s were born from the hands of Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Pascal, Kepler, and Napier, among others. Besides being scientists, often these inventors also acted as philosophers. 17th century philosophy affected almost every...Read Full Story

Radio Chemist is from sunny and plastic Hollywood, California. I caught him on MySpace a while back, and when I saw that his music was inspired by and motivated by philosophy (I studied philosophy),...Read Full Story

Elin and her friend Madeleine Owen had the bittersweet experience of having to turn people away from the concert they gave Tuesday afternoon at the Jardin botanique. On the program were pieces by Marin Marais, Monsieur de St-Coulombe and other composers from the movie Tous les matins du monde played on viola da gamba, theorbo, lute and guitar. Obviously many people thought it sounded interesting and far more people came than were expected. In the end some seats were added, but not enough. The...Read Full Story

Antonio Vivaldi: The great Italian violinist, celebrated by Google Doodle : Google takes, on the anniversary of his birth, his own logo to Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and violinist. Actually born on March 4, 1678 is regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of Baroque music, where his works influenced big time by Heinichen in Pisendel, even one of the greatest geniuses of music like Bach.The Google logo “doodle”, represents a number of violins, four to be exact, as are...Read Full Story

Old classic is timeless, therefore classic re-decorating style interiors have their faithful supporters, who in the 21st century wish to have the spirit of the past times. Refinement, luxury, magnificence and quality of the types of materials, sun and rain with the furniture and photo to art portraits make it stand out, are just a few of the reasons why you ought to choose the classic style. Unique furniture pieces from diverse periods have a superior price and therefore are not common, but...Read Full Story

No, we are not sitting in comfortable seats in Salle Claude Champagne, but in the dining room of a home in 17th century Northern Europe.The owner, a melomane and member of the aristocracy, has left for a moment, leaving the remains of his supper--oyster shells, a lobster carcasse, white wine in a pitcher, a pewter goblet, cutlery, plates--on the table while he absents himself for a minute before the musicians arrive. His greatcoat, sword and hat remain. The instruments to be played upon...Read Full Story