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Verdi can be played on original instruments, too. Teatro Nuovo presented Verdi’s “Macbeth” using 19th-century period ...
A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy beaver on the Baroque brass instrument that has no valves -- which weren't invented until 1814 -- and thus requires the player to change pitches ...
On Sunday evening at the Academy for Performing Arts, the New Dutch Academy put on a show that featured baroque instruments ranging from the standard violin to the lesser-known lute. These ...
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 ...
The Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Baroque Christmas’ concert features holiday music on pre-1700s instruments. WBUR's Radio Boston sat down with a musician and the guest conductor of the ...
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 ...
Baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan brought his Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to the Krannert Center's Foellinger Great Hall on Feb. 16 for a concert of music by George Frideric Handel.
The sound of the harpsichord – that genteel instrument that conjures up images of the powdered wigs and embroidered waistcoats of the Baroque era – hooked Karen Flint while studying organ at ...
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 ...
The works will be resurrected by a period instrument orchestra consisting of 18th-century violins, violas, cellos, and more. “They look quite different and sound quite different.
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