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WORCESTER — Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" — four violin concertos depicting the different seasons of the year beginning with spring and ending with winter — was a revolutionary work when it was ...
Touring solo artists come to Western Pennsylvania almost every week of the concert season. Touring orchestras, by contrast, are a real rarity. Yes, Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic played ...
Nicknamed “The Red Priest” for his red hair and religious ordination, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was one of the most ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Falmouth Chorale, under the direction of ...
They say we don't have seasons in Northern California, but recent musical life has brought evidence to the contrary. On the heels of last week's sleek but slightly bland performance of Vivaldi's "Four ...
There’s been some lovely music composed for Easter, including a brand-new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio, which he wrote to celebrate the holiday in Leipzig, Germany, in 1725.
In introductory remarks to the final concert of Baroque Band’s season Friday night, concertmaster-guest conductor Joan Plana told the audience at Augustana Lutheran Church of the “huge amount of risks ...
There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, ...
The early-music movement has changed not only how musicians play—tuning, timbre, technique, style—but also what they play. A couple of generations ago, programs of Baroque music were dominated by such ...
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is getting back to Bach. Granted, you’ll usually find a fair amount of J.S. Bach and his baroque-era contemporaries over the course of an SPCO concert season. But ...