Churches, monasteries, theaters, and town squares reverberated with the sound of music: imported at first, the music gradually became more and more locally composed, performed by native and foreign-born musicians, enslaved or free.
Performing Latin American Early Music Read More »
Direct Matt Steel notes that when he arrived at WMU in Winter 1984 to become Collegium Director, the ensemble was small, around 10, consisting mostly of music students wanting to try out its many “weird” wind instruments.
WMU Collegium Musicum Celebrates 50 Years Read More »
The Toronto-based quartet I Furiosi has delved into such wide-ranging topics as insanity, inebriation, lying, narcissism, hell, outer space, and much more. Their next concert, on April 17, cryptically titled “A Fork in the Road,” will be an ironic celebration of bad decisions through the ages.
Rocking And Rolling With The Baroque Read More »
Fifteenth in our series of guest articles marking Early Music Month By Karen Burciaga “If music be the food of love…” We’ve all heard Shakespeare’s famous words, whether in his plays or movie adaptations. But in our modern age of LOLs and IMHOs, how do we make his archaic writings come alive again? It seemed
(Not Quite) Easy As Lying: Fitting Music to Shakespeare’s Plays Read More »
When I’m choosing a work for SHAK, the opera’s plot has to pass a few tests too. It needs strong female characters and a premise more entertaining for kids than plain old love-and-duty fare. And it needs to avoid plots that hinge on colonial conquest or conversion.
An all-ages adaptation of Handel’s ‘Serse’ Read More »
