The Dryden Ensemble, led by artistic director Daniel Swenberg, returns with a captivating program entitled The Most Faithful ...

“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 ...

The quaint and quirky sounds of the sackbut, krummhorn and shawm may be heard this weekend at Chicago`s 1985 Early Music Festival and Exhibition, featuring the best of the city`s antiquarian music.

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 ...

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 ...

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