On Wednesday, Jan. 14, a Hilo audience will hear Baker, violist Brett Walfish and cellist Ismar Gomes perform music composed ...

Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. 5BMF's original 2020-21 season included a late-fall presentation of the complete ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...

Curious about the long neck sticking up from the orchestra pit during the Houston Grand Opera's performances of The Coronation of Poppea? It belongs to a theorbo, a member of the lute family. The ...

If the instruments were exotic, the music played was mostly top-hit Baroque pieces. Two of Handel's most familiar works were performed, the 1717 "Water Music Suite in F" and the 1748 "Music for the ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...

5BMF's original 2020-21 season included a late-fall presentation of the complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J.S. Bach, performed by violinist Monica Huggett and keyboardist Elliot Figg.