Musicologist and Handel scholar John Roberts realized almost immediately that the manuscript he was examining was a new cantata by one of the Baroque masters. A visit by Dutch conductor and early ...
Great Lakes Baroque performs "Coffee Cantata" and other Bach favorites Friday at the Cabot Theatre As many coffee aficionados know, love for coffee can be a powerful force. But widespread adoration ...
Though Music of the Baroque has long excelled in choral masterworks, the group can be every bit as effective in smaller scale repertoire. Tuesday evening at Northwestern University`s Alice Millar ...
You would think, wouldn’t you, that the form of the cantata as exercised by Bach more than 200 times would exhaust its possibilities relatively quickly. After all, how much can you do within the scope ...
Johann Sebastian Bach knew about coffee addiction. He composed a miniature comic opera about it, called the Coffee Cantata. In the 30-minute work, a daughter defies her father’s command to stop ...
In a month packed with music, a standout is always the annual Chan Centre performance of Early Music Vancouver’s long-running Bach Cantatas project. This year an enthusiastic, loyal following will ...
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Period instrument performance of Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” and Orchestral Suite in B minor, BWV 1067; Handel’s cantata “Armida abbandonata”; Telemann Concerto for strings in E-flat major. Julie ...
Each fall, Salisbury’s chamber music lovers have looked forward to a new season of Carolina Baroque. But after 23 years of music-making, the ensemble has taken its final bows. The group’s director and ...
Hidden among JS Bach’s vast back catalogue of more than 300 sacred cantatas is an anomaly. The Coffee Cantata is a comic piece for three singers based around a girl who refuses to give up her ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Christine Gevert knows that in 2024, one might hesitate before going to a concert of baroque Christmas music. “There are so many stereotypes that you might have about, ‘I don’t like ...