“Frets & Strings,” Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra’s 2007-08 chamber series opener this weekend, will spotlight one of the world’s leading lute and guitar virtuosos, John Schneiderman. Led by ...
NYS Baroque will present lute player Paul O’Dette in two concerts this weekend. O’Dette, a professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, has a worldwide performing and conducting career but ...
Here, a lute is being crafted in a workshop. This week on Fretworks, I'll have some music for the mandolin and for the lute, as well as classical guitar. For good measure, there is also a piece for ...
Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. To open the program, Schneiderman, LACO Concertmaster Margaret Batjer and ...
Chatham Baroque performs in 2024. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up here to get it every Wednesday ...
When music demands extended bass range, interesting things happen. In the baroque era, bass range was all the rage in opera, and so new instruments were brought into being, the theorbo and the ...
A rare opportunity to hear baroque music played on a mandolino and concert-level 17th century French harpsichord is coming to the Rancho Bernardo Library. The free concert will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday ...