Canto: Make Our Gardens Grow
Life in the arts is never easy, of course, but lately I’ve seen and heard so many of my fellow musicians crying out for help, not just financially but existentially.
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Rare 15th-Century Songs Given New Life
Chicago’s Newberry Consort and Cleveland’s Les Délices will perform selections from the Leuven chansonnier in January.
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There’s More Religion Than you Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’
One of the most persistent myths about Bach is that his work is marked by a fundamental conflict between the sacred and the secular.
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Handel and Haydn Society Adds Three New Principal Musicians to Orchestra
Emi Ferguson joins the orchestra in the principal flute position, Heather Miller Lardin joins in the principal bass role, and Jonathan Hess joins as the principal timpanist.
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CD Review: Handel (Maybe) Sonatas
Only four of the nine sonatas for violin and continuo on this recording by the Brook Street Band can be definitively attributed to the master through an extant autograph score. Authorship aside, all of these sonatas are at the very least charming, often clever, and always beautiful.
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