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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Five Boroughs Music Festival, in partnership with Portland Baroque Orchestra and Great Arts. Period., presents the world premiere of Juxtapositions: Old and New Music for Baroque Instruments, a ...

Maestro Michael Sand has been Angelo Moreno’s “Baroque Musical Mentor” for the past 30 years and what better way to express his thanks than by throwing a concert at the Richard Brunelle Performance ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. Fans ...

‘I didn’t set out to create an institution,’ says music director Martin Pearlman. But that’s exactly what this group has become. The early music movement was in its fledgling days in 1973. That’s when ...

Mark Herz: This is Morning Edition. The legendary conductor Martin Pearlman is in his final season leading the storied music ensemble Boston Baroque. Known to many as simply Marty, he’s been bringing ...

A group of musicians want to give audiences the chance to experience what it was like to hear the rich texture of pre-1700s early music. The Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Baroque Christmas’ concert ...

The Baroque period (roughly 1600–1750) was a time of great creativity and change in music. Composers began to focus more on expressing emotions clearly and powerfully. One of the most important ideas ...