Piffaro’s 39th subscription season, the second under the artistic leadership of Priscilla Herreid, opens with a program provocatively titled The Year the Music Died. That year was 1623, when composers William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, and Philip Rosseter all passed away within months of each other, and with them the era of Elizabethan music. Of her […]
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“Stunning in its breadth and beauty,” (Broad Street Review) Piffaro’s season finale is drawn from the rich sacred and secular repertoire found in manuscripts of 16th and 17th-century Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. Piffaro’s wind band is augmented with plucked strings, percussion, and five stellar vocalists. Special guest, Argentinian tenor and lutenist Jonatan Alvarado, sings “with
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Piffaro, The Renaissance Band has adopted the Indiana Early Double Reed and Indiana Sackbut Workshop, until recently sponsored by Early Music in Motion. The 2023 workshop ala pifarescha will take place March 5-12 at Waycross Camp & Conference Center in Morgantown, Indiana. Fees & registration: https://bit.ly/IEDRSW2023 HISTORY Early Music in Motion (EMIM) launched a workshop
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Philadelphia’s internationally renowned period instrument ensemble, Piffaro the Renaissance Band, brings its Founders’ Finale season to a rousing conclusion with a concert that focuses on musical legacies. In addition to celebrating Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken, the group’s retiring artistic co-directors, the program recreates The Musical World and Legacy of Charles V with guests lutenist
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The annual Piffaro Recorder Fest, scheduled for April 9, 2022, has been canceled. “It saddens us that we must cancel the always-uplifting annual Recorder Fest & Competition, but this has been a tremendously trying year for music educators,” says artistic co-director Joan Kimball. “We look forward bringing the Fest back in 2023.”
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