The musician Turlough Carolan, who died 280 years ago today, is sometimes said to have been a “rockstar” of his era.
This doesn’t mean he took drugs, bedded groupies, or trashed hotel rooms. But there is at least one respect in which he measures up well to latter-day rock gods. He may have written the intro to Stairway to Heaven.
Leaves by the Bolognese artist, newly donated to the Getty Museum, represent six of the twenty known pages surviving from a Renaissance gradual
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“The moment you pick up a hurdy-gurdy on stage,” Mr. Loibner, born in Graz, Austria, in 1969, said in an interview, “people expect you to tell a story.”
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Dr. Lindsey Macchiarella is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas at El Paso. While her musicological research focuses on 20th-century music, she is an avid performer and teacher of early music on the recorder and viola da gamba. She is the founder and director of the UTEP Early Music Ensemble.
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