GREAT BARRINGTON — Caution: This music is fake. The warning could be affixed to some of the music to be played on the Close Encounters with Music program. And the music that isn't fake has largely ...

MUSA is a chamber ensemble dedicated to historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire, as well as new music for period instruments. From trio sonatas to orchestral works, MUSA ...

Chatham Baroque opens its 2024/2025 Concert Series with A Garden of Harmony, a captivating journey through the vivid and expressive music for strings from 17th-century Austria and Germany on September ...

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Orange — Baroque music may not strike the average casual music fan but the 17th- and early 18th-century style of music has certainly struck a chord with a group of young musicians known as ...

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Mercury Baroque, one of the country’s foremost period instrument orchestras, will perform Vivaldi’s “L’Estro Armonico” on March 25 at The John Cooper School Performing Arts Center. Founded as a ...

Wen Yang became a fan of Baroque music while earning her master's degree at the Yale School of Music. She was especially drawn to the idea of performing with period instruments—either antiques or high ...

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 ...

Founded as a chamber ensemble, Mercury Baroque’s world-class musicians performs authentic period music on historically appropriate instruments. A big hit in Europe, the sound is just blossoming in the ...