Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch, elder twin-daughter of Dr Carl Dolmetsch CBE, and his first wife Mary, grew up amid a whirlwind of music-making that encompassed teaching, concert-giving both at home and abroad, and musical-instrument making at the family’s Haslemere workshops.
Tributes paid to early music revivalist Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch Read More »
British conductor, keyboardist and early music expert Richard Egarr has been named the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s newest artistic partner.
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra adds British early music expert to artistic partner lineup Read More »
At the fore of this antiquarian revival was Wolfgang Zuckermann, a German-born Jew who fled to the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power, worked as a child psychologist and piano technician and, in 1959, developed a build-it-yourself harpsichord kit that brought this once-obscure instrument into thousands of homes from North America to Australia.
Wolfgang Zuckermann, whose DIY kit fueled a harpsichord revival, dies at 96 Read More »
Fans of early music have a new addition to their weekend radio lineup. Early Music Now with Sara Schneider is a new one-hour program showcasing music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque: from sonorous medieval chant and polyphony to delightful renaissance madrigals, dances, and consort music to magnificent baroque cantatas and keyboard music.
FM89 Launches New Early Music Program This December Read More »
While most string players in modern symphony orchestras use synthetic strings made of steel or nylon, baroque violinist Andrew Fouts — an artistic director of Chatham Baroque — special orders gut strings from a small shop in Minnesota.
Baroque music: It’s music with (sheep, cow, mongolian horse and mammoth) guts Read More »
