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 ...

The third installment is the Baroque era.The term "Baroque" is said to originate from the Portuguese word for "misshapen ...

Generally speaking, the Baroque period is when the orchestra was born, opera kicked off in a big way and the concerto gave soloists the chance to properly show off. From the period's beginnings in the ...

Every couple of years, the Boston Early Music Festival is anchored by an invariably spectacular opera production that's thoroughly researched, lavishly staged and brilliantly performed. And one of the ...

Benedetti and a roster of international Baroque specialists will host her three-week Baroque Virtual Sessions from 5 to 25 July – with a final celebratory concert on Sunday 1 August. Taking place ...

Over the past week, I attended two concerts with very different flavors: 17th-century Baroque and ukulele.Both were valuable ...

We often hear about the jazzlike improvisational freedom of Baroque instrumental music, but it's rare to hear it so exuberantly in action as during Saturday's Berkeley concert by the superb Italian ...

‘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 ...

Classical music has blessed us with timeless musical motifs, many of which have inspired later innovations — like the trill technique in heavy metal and groovy synth-pop beats. So many of the greatest ...

Salomone Rossi (1570-1630) of Mantua, Italy, will be featured by the Elysium Ensemble on the 17th October at Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne, and director Greg Dikmans tell us about Rossi's music.

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Throughout history, music has been the highest form of art, expressing human emotions beyond the boundaries of culture, space, and time. This was evident in the remarkable fusion of sixteenth-century ...