TELEMANN’S QUIXOTE SUITE: AN UNDER-THE-HOOD LOOK AT COMPOSING DEPICTIVE MUSIC How can orchestral music depict Don Quixote tilting at windmills? Sancho Panza being tossed in a blanket? Quixote’s swaggering pride, or the bucking gait of Sancho’s mule? It’s a collaboration between the composer, who writes the musical script, and the orchestra itself, which delivers that […]
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Media Contact: PRESS RELEASE Kathleen Staten For Immediate Release Tel: 713.622.7443 kstaten@arslyricahouston.org MUSICAL FIREWORKS CELEBRATE BASTILLE DAY AS ARS LYRICA OPENS TURNING POINTS SEASON Houston, TX, July 2nd, 2020 — Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, opens its 16th season with a Bastille Day program in partnership with Rienzi, the Museum of Fine
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Welcome to Tafelmusik at Home, our new online concert series. If you can’t come to us, we will bring the concert experience to you! Hosted by Tafelmusik musicians from their homes, each program lasts about an hour and combines works that may be new to your ears with music you know and love. Be sure to
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Natalie Rose Kress, Baroque violin, performs Telemann Fantasia no. 1, Biber Passacaglia, and Bach Partita no. 3 in E Major. Join us for this free event Friday, 6/12, at 7:30pm!
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https://www.groupmuse.com/events/10735-french-viol-muse-part-1 Marin Marais is the most beloved composer by players of the viola da gamba. He lived and worked for Louis XIV at the height of the French baroque era, and his music exemplifies the grace and delicacy of French music, as defined by his friend and colleague Jean Baptiste Lully. His five books of
