early-music

"It gives musicians different options," says Kent Devereaux, a composer and chair of the music department at Cornish, which started an undergraduate early-music program two years ago; a new postgraduate artist diploma program starts in September.

Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

Conductor Ryan Brown and his fine early-music ensemble, Opera Lafayette, have made it their mission to explore seldom-trod byways of 18th-century opera.

Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique' Joe Banno 2011

LACO's approach to last Sunday's performance embraced the spirit of early-music practice while retaining the more practical aspects of modern performance, and the orchestra can at the very least claim mastery in execution if not the ultimate in style.

Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach Rodney Punt 2011

Hank Knox, who heads the large early-music program at McGill University, points out: Kent Nagano, music director of the Montreal Symphony, is asking players to use less bow and less vibrato, and following Beethoven's metronome markings.

Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

Clearly, Juilliard is in the early-music business to stay: The $1 million program, which gives full-tuition scholarships to the students, will expand to include lute and gamba players in 2013; Bruce Kovner, Juilliard's board chair and the program's primary funder, recently endowed it in perpetuity.

Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

LACO's approach to last Sunday's performance embraced the spirit of early-music practice while retaining the more practical aspects of modern performance, and the orchestra can at the very least claim mastery in execution if not the ultimate in style.

Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach Rodney Punt 2011

Because I have a tin ear and know little music history, I asked Gwen Toth, the artistic director of the early-music group Artek and a distinguished organist, to come to the gallery with me and explain what I was seeing.

Where Man Has His Place William Meyers 2011

Norwegian sax star Garbarek and the Hilliard vocal ensemble have travelled from a largely early-music repertoire in the early 90s to a more inclusively ancient-and-modern one today.

Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum John Fordham 2010

And when she studied at Ohio State University under the British early-dance specialist Shirley Wynne, Ms. Turocy said, the field was driven by members of the early-music movement.

Stepping Through History Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

The biennial Boston Early Music Festival, which begins on Sunday, is best known for its lavish period productions of rare operas this year, it will be Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe" of 1688, visiting early-music luminaries like Jordi Savall, and its exhibition full of harpsichords, recorders and viols for sale.

Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011