The renowned UK based historic wind ensemble The City Musick are pleased to announce the new Corona Consort Karaoke project. We deeply miss playing with colleagues and students on our summer schools and courses so have come up with this idea to enable players to play along with any part they want from a series of audio […]
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Piffaro is joining the ranks of ensembles offering free online performances with a one-hour “rebroadcast” of its March 2019 performance of material from Michael Praetorius’ Terpsichore with Sonnambula, which was performed in Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE and at the Met Cloisters. Dancers’ Delight Redux Watch Party: Friday, May 15, 7:30PM EDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDH9Vg_20E8&feature=youtu.be or https://www.youtube.com/officialpiffaro Dancers’ Delight was
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Recent articles by Beverly Jerold: “Distinguishing between dotted notes and notes inégales, The Musical Times 161/1950 (Spring 2020): 61-76. “Marmontel/[Piccinni] on Neapolitan Opera,” Journal of Music Criticism 3 (2019): 1-17. Details about Neapolitan opera conveyed in Marmontel’s epic poem Polymnie. “Tartini and the Two Forms of Appoggiature,” Eighteenth Century Music 16/1 (2019): 83-86. The Italian
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Smithsonian music curator James Merle Weaver died on 16 April in Rochester, New York, from complications of COVID-19. He was 82. Weaver began his lifelong engagement with music as a piano, and later, organ, student in his hometown of Danville, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois in nearby Champaign/Urbana. His weekend activities during that
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New York, NY, April 6, 2020 – Douglas Schwalbe, founder of the classical music management agency Schwalbe and Partners, died Friday, April 3 at the age of 92 after a short illness. Douglas Schwalbe was born in New York in 1927. He went to PS6 and then to the Hotchkiss School. Immediately after, he enlisted
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