A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between.
A number of forms were developed in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Structures in the Renaissance period were mainly based on the text being used. Religious music was written to be sung by choirs ...
Today the scene is different. Early instrument orchestras proliferate, some of them very fashionable indeed, and opera houses compete to stage baroque opera. Anyone who grew up on the Berlin ...
The festival of chamber music this time around offers a musical wander across Renaissance and Baroque Italy and England, and commemorates the establishment of Czechoslovakia, all while bringing a host ...
1969 saw Nixon's swearing in, an escalation in Vietnam, a moon landing, and Woodstock. In that same year, a group of visionaries in Pittsburgh founded the Renaissance & Baroque Society, which over ...