Online Performances

May 27, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Live Baroque Music and Dance BALAM Dance Theatre presents a multi-disciplinary program, featuring excerpts from the Leycester Lyra Viol manuscript (1670), Scottish tunes by Francesco Barsanti (1742), Toccata Arpegiatta by Giovanni Kaspberger (1604), Prelude in d minor and Fandango by Maestro Matias (1786), and choreography by Carlos Fittante. This […]

In this preview episode of Concert & Conversations, Artistic Director Matthew Dirst and soprano Abigail Fischer dig in to discuss Handel’s Aminta e Fillide, from its history to its text and music. Aminta e Fillide will be performed on Idyll & Intrigue, a virtual concert program with its broadcast premiere on Friday, May 21 at

May 20, 2021, 1:15pm EDT Bohemian Rhapsody Music from the Kromeriz Archive in Moravia, including some of the most popular, original and striking of all 5-part music by Heinrich Schmelzer, Biber, and Biber’s colleague Pavel Vejvanovský. In his capacity as librarian and copyist, Vejvanovský, is largely to thank for assembling this vast corpus of music.

May 13, 2021, 1:15 PM EST The Diverging Baroque Traditions Eighteenth-century Europe was a melting pot of diverging musical traditions. Marin Marais and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre’s music showcase essences of the French tradition; Giuseppe Sammartini represents the late Baroque Italian style; and German composers Telemann and Handel’s cosmopolitan style blends various European traditions together   Alex