Curious about the long neck sticking up from the orchestra pit during the Houston Grand Opera's performances of The Coronation of Poppea? It belongs to a theorbo, a member of the lute family. The ...
A group of musicians want to give audiences the chance to experience what it was like to hear the rich texture of pre-1700s early music. The Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Baroque Christmas’ concert ...
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 ...
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From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating ...
At 26, Natalia Harvey is one of the younger faces playing in a middle-aged orchestra devoted to a style of music and instruments that are distinctly old. So ancient, in fact, the sound would be ...
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In 1973, in a church in Boston, harpsichordist Martin Pearlman got together a group of eight musicians for an innovative concert: Baroque music played not on modern instruments but on the instruments ...