Baroque music

Greetings on a fine and sunny Friday! I’ve been a bit remiss in not getting this information to you earlier, but I thought I should come post for the choral fans about two upcoming concerts that promise to be fabulous. (Sadly, due to prior ...  

The world of early music – the catch-all title given to anything written ... Even a work as popular as Bach’s St Matthew Passion remains the subject of conjecture: did the composer, working at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig in the 1720s, use a small ...  

Music: Bratty Bach, piano ambassadors and Baroque beauty Published May 3, 2012 05:46PM MDT Bratty Bach Evan Shinners, lauded in the Huffington Post for “one of the brattiest Bach recordings to come along since Glenn Gould himself,” performs music by Bach as part of the Madeleine Festival of the Arts. When • Sunday, May 6, at 8 p.m. Where • Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City Info • Free Young artists...  

Classical music: Bach made easy Through May 12. The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado makes beautiful music. Even better, the period instrument ensemble makes it easy to attend its concerts. Pick the speed, style and sound you like from the venues set for the upcoming program of Brandenburg Concertos:  

Enjoy music for voice by Monteverdi and his contemporaries at a concert on 28 April at the West Road Concert Hall Cambridge. With Anna Prohaska and James Gilchrist, directed by Jonathan CohenComposing in Venice in the early 1600s, Claudio Monteverdi led a musical revolution which placed a new and astonishing emphasis on the voice, exploring its musical and dramatic possibilities alongside a range of contemporaries; their music is little heard...  

Could it be that the San Francisco Symphony should play more Baroque music? The idea seems implausible, given how remote the works of Bach and Handel are from the orchestra's core mission - but perhaps a little less so after Tuesday's first-rate concert in...  

A concert of Baroque-Era music performed by Ensemble 415 South is slated for 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at First Presbyterian Church of DeLand, 724 N. Woodland Blvd. The group, consisting of Tammara Phillips on baroque flute, Ann Adams on baroque oboe, Lee Goodhew Romm on baroque bassoon, and Boyd J ...  

Claudio Monteverdi's magnificent "Vespers of 1610," Vivaldi's brilliant "Gloria" and Handel's majestic "Water Music" are part of Portland Baroque Orchestra's 2012-13 season, which opens in October. The season opens Oct. 12-14 with choral music ...  

has come to view the biennial event as a gathering place for a family of musicians who keep coming back. "I'm looking forward to seeing these people again," he said. "Everyone who's playing this year has been here before, except Debra Nagy."  

pid= 453_id= 52 ENSEMBLE CHACONNE (Peter H. Bloom, baroque flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; and Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute and English guitar) will perform A Musical Portrait ~Thomas Gainsborough and His Circle, a dazzling concert ...  

Archifon I., a "virtual musical instrument," allows the audience to "play" sounds by directing laser pointers at architectural elements inside the Olomouc (de-baptized) Baroque chapel. Up to 10 laser pointers can trigger sound and video via over 100 ornate ...  

Nancy Menk, the ensemble's conductor and music director, has established the Chamber Singers as a leading force in contemporary vocal music, championing living composers and frequently commissioning new pieces. But the group's May 20 concert ...  

Music of the Baroque is steady with Bach MassChicago TribuneJohann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor is so imposing a monument bringing together so many different styles of music that performances always are an occasion. Sunday night's sold-out performance by Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque had the ...Music of the Baroque conveys the joyous element of Bach's Mass in B minorChicago Classical Reviewall 3 news articles »  

On Saturday, March 3, 53 students from Victoria, Port Lavaca, Cuero and surrounding towns participated in the Victoria Music Teachers Association Baroque-Sonatina Festival, which was held at the Victoria College.  

Various artists, Coriole Vineyards, McLaren Vale, South Australia. May 5-6. EXCEPTIONAL artistry from Australia's leading chamber choir and two of its top violinists made this year's Coriole Music Festival an engrossing weekend. As is usual in this event ...  

Light refreshments will be offered at a reception following the performance. The BCOC performance, entitled "Brandenburg Concertos" and presented jointly by Summit Music and Arts and Breckenridge Music Festival, will consist of works by two ...  

The concert will feature some of the most exciting music ever written for solo and duo violin, including never-before-recorded pieces by Jean-Marie Leclair and a romantic duet by 19 th century violinist Charles de Bariot. The concert benefits the Montana ...  

Well, "composes" might be a little bit of a stretch. Really it's more like a robotic cover band: the robotic system listens to a musician play a tune and then breaks it down into a five-part version that, while it differs from the original, still "retains ...  

St. Mark's music director Jack Miller believes a baroque musician ... expecting her to have learned a whole recital's worth of music. "I learned massive amounts of repertoire in a really short time and learned that I could play it really well ...  

NEW HAVEN — For many years Ellen Rosand, a professor of music at Yale and a noted scholar of Baroque opera, has been turning undergraduates at the college into opera buffs through a popular introductory course. But recently Yale students who ...  

The Yale Baroque Opera Project, which focuses on staged productions of operas featuring casts of undergraduates, presented Monteverdi’s “Ritorno d’Ulisse,” at the University Theater at Yale.  

45 p.m. Tickets, $10-35, are available at www.HoustonEarlyMusic.org, or call 281-846-4222. Pine said that most places separated classical and folk music, but in Scotland there was no such differentiation. “You would have the same guy who was ...  

During this afternoon’s Baroque Cello Class Concert at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, one of the students introduced her performance of a sonata by Jean-Baptiste Barrière by describing the composer as the man who brought the Baroque ...  

Soprano Patrice Michaels will accompany The Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) featuring ensemble member Michael Henoch, oboe, and guest artists Baird Dodge, violin; Paula Kosower, cello; Thomas Wikman, continuo; in a free concert of Baroque chamber music ...  

On Saturday, April 28, the First Church of West Bridgewater, 29 Howard St., will sponsor a Concert of Renaissance and Baroque Music featuring the Cole & Woodbury Antique Organ, circa 1892, an Antique Harpsichord and a Classical Guitar. Featured will be ...  

One of the ideals of baroque music was to move the listener’s emotions. On Wednesday La Reveuse Ensemble, together with the American-born tenor Jeffrey Thompson, did just that at the French Embassy, edging close to opera in the group’s virtuosity ...  

Mercury’s musicians are also educators and work with schools and extracurricular programs to provide children with academic, social, and personal growth. Accessibility: Mercury is committed to making transformative and inspiring musical experiences ...  

The extra concert is "The Musical Journey of Bishop Martinez Companon," April 13, a show directed by Tom Zajac and featuring a dozen singers and instrumentalists performing music from 18th-century Peru. Subscriptions are $36 to $180. Single tickets are $20 ...  

Over the next few years Jennifer gave more than a hundred solo recitals throughout England as part of Yehudi Menuhin’s organisation Live Music Now. Lord Menuhin described her as “among this country’s most outstanding musicians” and she went on to ...  

Prague-based projection mapping collective Macula have turned a Baroque church into a virtual music instrument that can be played with laser pointers. The surface of the interior of the Olomouc Baroque chapel in the Czech Republic was mapped, with parts of ...  

The band plays music by Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann for historic clarinet and oboe, highlighting two terrific performers, Eric Hoeprich, clarinet, and Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe. Monica Huggett leads the program of rarely heard music.  

"I was 14 when I happened to be at my local sheet music shop," she recalls ... She's no stranger to adversity: Her financially difficult childhood and a commuter-train accident that left her disabled at 21 have inspired her to help others.  

An interesting 3D projection and music installation by projection mapping collective Macula transformed a Baroque church in the Czech Republic into a virtual musical instrument that could be interacted with using laser pointers. The virtual ...  

Expert in the music of the Baroque period, this Ensemble Vermillian performance features Frances Blaker, recorders; David Wilson, violin; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; John O’Brien, harpsichord/organ; and Dan Smith, archlute/baroque guitar.  

Look at da Vinci. Or Vivaldi. Now, everything has become so specialized. You're even a Baroque conductor, or a Classical specialist -- I like all this stuff. Organ, chamber music, contemporary, Baroque. "That's why I move around a lot."  

Dr. James McFarland was the judge for this event ... Students earning I plus ratings and a medal were: Benjamin Bian, Vincent Chen, Gigi Cheng, Jennifer Den, Elizabeth Du, Bea Eamiguel, Therese Eamiguel, Betsy Gifford, Caleb Huang, Pranav ...  

Natural lighting, lamps or light covers are ... Sheets cover the clutter of book shelves. Mengert also encourages teachers to turn on Pandora Radio and let kids listen to baroque music to stimulate memory. “Baroque music isn’t typical ...  

First – Matthew McPhail Class 124 Baroque Repertoire 11 yrs and under. First – Yubin Han Class 123 Baroque Repertoire 12 yrs and under. First – Alexandra Bula Class 150 List C. or D 11 yrs and under. First – Stephen Babin; Second ...  

Mark Cudek's reach into the world of early music has an extra depth when it comes to musicians associated with Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory.  

Mark Cudek's reach into the world of early music has an extra depth when it comes to musicians associated with Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory.