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Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette — the highly regarded presenter of baroque and classical operas with a chamber orchestra of period instruments — will speak at The Georgetowner’s Oct. 24 Cultural Leadership Breakfast. Admission to the event, at the President Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 S St. NW, is $40, payable in […]

Forte | Piano 2025, a major international festival to be hosted by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (CCHK)  and co-sponsored by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, will take place from August 5-10, 2025. Featuring recitals, presentations, and conversations among performers, scholars, organologists, builders, and technicians, the festival will be a celebration of historical

A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie recently gained recognition beyond Brooklyn with their soundtrack for the video game Pentiment (directed by Obsidian studios and published by Xbox) and their albums a fine companion and Love to My Liking. Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival,

From Rome to Vilnius is a new investigative insight into the cultural heritage of Lithuania: the music at the Vasa Court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It reflects the influence of the greatest masters of the Roman polyphonic school in the musical world of Poland and Lithuania, and shows the Vasa Court as a place of

Carolina Pro Musica presents “Premiering Hasse” including a cantata by Johann Adolf Hasse for soprano and strings transcribed from manuscript making it possibly the first US performance. Other works include a Hasse flute concerto, a Trio by Graun, and Quadro by Janitsch. All composers most likely knew each other as they participated in performances at