Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...

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 ...

In April, as part of the Frequency Series I book at Constellation, I had the pleasure of presenting the Chicago debut of Nordic Affect, a remarkable quartet from Iceland who perform contemporary music ...

In the 1950s, when musician Gustav Leonhardt and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt began advocating period-instrument performances of Baroque composers, they were seen as a rather kooky musical ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. 5BMF's original 2020-21 season included a late-fall presentation of the complete ...

The sounds are old -- ancient, even -- but the combinations are new, as is the sensibility behind them. Together they make this new-music sampler by two Bay Area musical organizations one of the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Arts. Followed categories will be added to My News. “That’s why in a (Bach) Brandenburg Concerto you can have up front a recorder and a trumpet. It’s not an ...

A baroque ensemble from Italy, unable to carry precious instruments as carry-on luggage because of new airline security restrictions, performed in Vancouver thanks to some local assistance. Thanks to ...