What does a baroque altar piece depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus have to do with a pair of incandescent pink and purple ghetto-fabulous sneakers? At the Bass Museum, it’s the clever ...
The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...
Esteban Salas was a Cuban composer of religious vocal music. He was born in 1725 – right near the end of the baroque era – and he worked at the cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. One of his compositions ...
Emi Ferguson: Hello, I'm Emi Ferguson sitting in for Bob Sherman. On today's show, we'll hear music from young artists who are reinvigorating music of the past for today, here on this edition of the ...
It’s a perverse thing to say about a disc of solo bass cantatas, but I like this recording best for its ensemble playing. Freiburg Baroque are at the top of their game: lithe, shapely, tuneful. The ...
is a Nigerian-Irish star of the Baroque double bass, having played with Europe's leading period orchestras. With she will show why she's a virtuoso of her unwieldy instrument in music by Mozart, Haydn ...
The Stevenson High School Baroque Ensemble debuted as the youngest performers in the early music series held each year at the Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake. They were so well-received, according to ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — "A Baroque Holiday" concert will be held on Nov. 27 at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Eltingville. The show, part of its 10th anniversary season of Music at Saint Alban's, will ...
BOISE — Renaud Boucher-Browning will perform with the Boise Baroque Orchestra tonight and Sunday. The Boise High School graduate will play “Concerto for Double Bass” by Bohemian composer Johann ...