Early Music in the News

    The latest North American early music news from various media sources.

    EARLY MUSIC: That Other Music Revival
    May 8, 2012 Bethlehem (PA) Patch

    Ulysses Goes to College, in a Lively Monteverdi
    May 7, 2012 New York Times

    105th Bethlehem Bach Festival Starts Today
    May 4, 2012 Bethlehem (PA) Patch

    Musica Nuova presents Monteverdi's Il Ballo delle Ingrate (The Dance of the Ungrateful Women) live at (Le) Poisson Rouge
    May 1 2012 PR Web

    Early Music Festival details announced
    April 30, 2012 The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC)

    Pegasus concert to show love and war
    April 30, 2012 Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY)

    Instruments, performers recall legendary lovers and howlers
    April 27, 2012 Columbus Dispatch

    Dance company teaches baroque
    April 19, 2012 Indiana Daily Student

    Festival immerses listeners in baroque music
    April 18, 2012 The Edmonton Journal

    Early music groups gear up for Alexander the Great
    March 28, 2012 The Georgia Straight (Vancouver BC)

    Skye cave find western Europe's 'earliest string instrument'
    March 28, 2012 BBC News

     

    Rediscovered Mozart music played on his piano in Salzburg
    March 23, 2012 CBC News

    Trio Settecento to Close Houston Early Music Season
    March 19, 2012 Broadway World (Houston)

    Shakespeare's sonnets set to music
    March 20, 2012 The Telegraph (UK)

    Chatham Baroque is a successful arts business model
    March 15, 2012 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

    A history lesson in music
    March 14, 2012 Times Beacon Record (Long Island, NY)

    Early Exhilaration, With Flourishes
    March 9, 2012 New York Times

    Early-music ensemble Les Delices to hold concert to raise money for second recording
    March 9, 2012 Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Tafelmusik's space odyssey tour
    March 9, 2012 Adelaide Now (Australia)

    Program to take listeners on a sonic odyssey
    March 8, 2012 Columbus Dispatch

    Opera Magic Not to be Missed
    March 7, 2012 Cornell Daily Sun

    Bringing 'early music' back to life
    February 23, 2012 Houston Chronicle

    Texas Early Music Project brings old-school classical music to Austin
    February 22, 2012 Culture Map (Austin, TX)

    Early music comes to Edmonton’s Convocation Hall
    February 9, 2012 Edmonton Journal

    Tacoma a kickoff point for early music concerts this spring
    February 3, 2012, Tacoma News Tribune

    Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and IU Early Music Institute partner for concerto competition, concert and master classes
    January 31, 2012, IU News Room

    Opera Lafayette uncovers Monsigny work once sung by Marie-Antionette
    January 24, 2012, Baltimore Sun

    Violin Masters on Parade
    January 20, 2012, New York Times

    Harpsichordist and conductor Gustav Leonhardt has died
    January 17, 2012, Gramophone

    Juilliard School Announces $20 Million Gift for Early Music
    January 16, 2012, New York Times

    New Years Day and the Journey begins
    January 12, 2012, Arts Journal Blogs

    Festival Celebrates Baroque
    January 5, 2012, Times-Colonist (Victoria, BC)

    Folger Consort Releases New Album: A New Song
    January 4, 2012, Presszone

    Occupying the Arts, a Seat at a Time
    December 29, 2011, New York Times

    Highlights of 2011 in classical music
    December 25, 2011, Boston Globe

    Hildegard of Bingen to be canonised and admitted as a Doctor of the Church
    December 19, 2011, Gramophone

    Opera Flourishing At the Extremes
    December 16, 2011, New York Times

    Bach in time for Christmas
    December 15, 2011, Vancouver Sun

    Music review: Philharmonia Baroque 'Messiah' at Disney Hall
    December 14, 2011, Los Angeles Times

    Gustav Leonhardt, Giant Of Baroque Music Revival, Cancels All Future Concerts
    (article in French)
    December 13, 2011, Le nouvel Observateur

    La Nochebuena: A Spanish Renaissance Christmas with the Rose Ensemble
    December 13, 2011, Minnesota Public Radio

    Alex Ross writes about Gesualdo
    December 12, 2011, New Yorker

    Director Paul Goodwin Announces Program of Global Influences for 75th Anniversary Carmel Bach Festival
    December 10, 2011, PRWeb

    Magnificat Baroque Ensemble goes back for the future
    December 8, 2011, San Francisco Examiner

    Joel Cohen, Boston Camerata celebrate diverse traditions
    December 2, 2011, Boston Globe

    Knoxville Early Music Project Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
    November 30, 2011, Metropulse.com (Knoxville, TN)

    Breaking: Italy finds new guts
    November 29, 2011, Slipped Disc

    How EU regulators’ fear of tainted beef is killing off centuries-old musical tradition
    November 29, 2011, Toronto Star

    Stradivarius Violin 'Replicated' Using CAT Scans
    November 28, 2011, BBC News

    Folger Consort Celebrates the Holiday Season
    November 24, 2011, Presszoom

    Montserrat Figueras Passes Away at 69
    November 23, 2011, Slipped Disc

    Baroque Violinist Edwin Huizinga on Organizing a Classical Revolution Group in Toronto
    November 21, 2011, Toronto Globe & Mail

    Not so refined
    November 21, 2011 Sandow on the future of classical music (ArtsJournal Blog)

    Conductor Flies Freely Over Critical Gulfs
    November 18, 2011, New York Times

    The healing joy of singing 13th-century girl-group music
    November 17, 2011, San Jose Mercury News

    John Eliot Gardiner On His Reputation For Being Mean To His Musicians
    November 13, 2011, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Viola maker finds right wood
    November 10, 2011, The Guardian (UK)

    Baltimore Consort comes to Salisbury
    November 7, 2011, Delmarvanow.com (Dover, DE)

    As Newberry Consort thrives, so does early music in Chicago
    November 2, 2011, Chicago Tribune

    Let there be lute
    October 16, 2011, The Portland (ME) Press

    Grounds For Sculpture hosts Early Music Festival
    October 14 2011, The Times of Trenton/NJ.com

    Music Review: Jordi Savall & Various Artists - Hispania & Japan: Dialogues
    October 8, 2011, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Harmonious Blacksmith aims to keep audience on its toes
    October 6, 2011, Albany Times-Union

    La Donna Musicale gives women their due
    September 30, 2011, Houston Chronicle

    Juilliard Baroque Ensemble enlivens mostly forgotten repertoire
    September 29, 2011, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Natural horn specialist debuts
    September 29, 2011, Victoria Times-Colonist

    500-Year-Old Music Books Accessible to All
    September 29, 2011, Science Daily

    Steve Reich On Music History
    September 27, 2011, Deutsche Welle

    Rose Ensemble explores his life with music readings
    September 23, 2011, The Star-Ledger (NJ.com)

    Ostraka trio opens 30th season of Arizona Early Music Society
    September 22, 2011, Arizona Daily Star

    Harmony from on high
    September 15, 2011, Denton (TX) Record-Chronicle

    New Blog about Early Music Pioneers
    semibrevity.com

    Utopia Early Music: A love of the medieval style
    September 5, 2011, City Weekly (Salt Lake City, UT)

    Bloomington Early Music Festival
    September 1, 2011

    San Francisco Early Music Society Season Opens with the Catacoustic Consort and Wildcat Viols
    September 1, 2011, San Francisco Sentinel

    Houston Early Music 2011-12 Season Opens with Passionate Enemies 10/2
    August 31, 2011, Broadway World (Houston)

    Technology is infringing on classical music
    August 28, 2011, Los Angeles Times

    Classical Streaming’s Fitful Baby Steps
    August 25, 2011, New York Times

    Classical CD biz bounces back
    August 24, 2011, Variety

    Early Music Festival opens in Utrecht
    August 26, 2011, Expatica.com

    Performance of Classical Music Stations
    June 2011, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    Pro Musica Rara's 37th season to feature Julianne Baird, baroque dance
    August 25, 2011, Baltimore Sun

    Oregon Bach Festival names Matthew Halls to replace Helmuth Rilling in 2013
    August 24, 2011, Oregon Live.com

    Quintet take the honours at festival
    July 29, 2011, Yorkshire Post

    Haymarket Opera to address need for a 'period' opera company in Chicago
    August 16, 2011, Chicago Tribune

    Houston Early Music Announces 2011-2012 Season
    July 28, 2011, Broadway World

    Listen and learn
    July 28 2011, Vancouver Sun

    Art museum rediscovers 'spectacular' instrument collection
    July 22 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer

    Prague Festival of Early Music
    July 20, 2011, Prague Post

    Mozart's Character: Kristian Bezuidenhout
    July 13, 2011, NPR

    Early Music to Hear in the 2011-12 Season
    July 13, 2011, Washingtonian

    Aston Magna presents The Italian Madrigal and Its Legacy
    July 7, 2011, Albany Times-Union

    Reentering Opera’s Lost World
    July 1, 2011, City Journal

    Mark Cudek artistic director, Indianapolis Early Music Festival
    June 26, 2011, Indianapolis Star

    Voices of change as Bach Festival ushers in new era
    June 24, 2011, Monterey County Herald

    Chatham Baroque sets composition competition
    June 20, 2011, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

    Ars Lyrica pays tribute to soaring voices of past
    June 9, 2011, Houston Chronicle

    Second-Class Repertoire No More
    June 9, 2011, Wall Street Journal

    Apollo's Fire and friends prepare to perform sassy songs of British Isles
    June 2, 2011, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

    A new chapter: Behind-the-scenes work begins for 2011 Bach Festival — with new maestro Paul Goodwin leading the way
    May 27, 2011, Monterey County Herald

    Early Music Takes Center Stage
    May 22, 2011, Boston Globe

    Anonymous 4 comes to NCC
    April 28, 2011, Naperville Sun/Chicago Sun-Times

    Dutch conductor Koopman beats a drum for Baroque music with Cleveland Orchestra
    April 24, 2011, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

    French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea'
    April 24, 2011, Chicago Tribune

    Early Music Vancouver announces festival concerts and courses
    April 18, 2011, The Georgia Straight

    Arts groups join forces to survive tough times
    April 15, 2011, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Striggio's hit Mass is 'wall of sound' masterpiece from 1560s
    April 12, 2011, The National

    Early music devotees join forces for songs from Shakespeare's time
    April 10, 2011, Times Union

    Early Music Ensemble presents medieval music drama
    April 5, 2011, Daily Toreador

    Bach Collegium will musically transport audiences back to 1724 for ‘St. John Passion’
    April 5, 2011, La Jolla Light

    Guitarist's domain runs in early-instrument vein
    March 31, 2011, The Columbus Dispatch

    Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' coming to the Folly Theater
    March 26, 2011, Kansas City Star

    Celebration of early music at Moravian
    March 23, 2011, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)

    A rich parade of classical concerts
    March 23, 2011, The Tennessean

    Boston Early Music Festival revives the English pastoral opera with Acis and Galatea
    March 22, 2011, The Georgia Straight

    Scott Metcalfe leads Blue Heron in concert
    March 21, 2011, Boston Musical Intelligencer

    445-Year-Old Mass Makes UK Pop Charts
    March 17, 2011, The Independent (UK)

    Seeking resonance
    March 15, 2011, Boston Globe

    Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah'
    March 5, 2011, Seattle Times

    Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment
    March 4 2011, New York Times

    Star-Studded Early Music in Toronto
    March 4, 2011, New York Times

    Catacoustic plays 17th-century Psalms by candlelight
    February 24, 2011, Cincinnati.com

    Talking with Tafelmusik
    February 16, 2011, Ottawa Citizen

    Classical Grammys 2011: A Rundown
    February 14, 2011, NPR

    Gabriele Cassone with Philharmonia in Berkeley
    February 10, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle

    Early music group does it for love, friendship
    February 7, 2011, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Lutenist Paul O'Dette gives long-anticipated concert
    February 5, 2011, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

    Trio Sonnerie Featured at Houston Early Music March Performance
    February 2, 2011, Broadway World

    Early Music in San Francisco
    January 29, 2011, SF List (San Francisco)

    MOB, Baroque Band keeping the flame of early music alive, in different ways
    January 26, 2011, Chicago Tribune

    Semele at PLU
    January 25, 2011, Tacoma News-Tribune

    Steel Leads 'Sarum Rite' at Trinity Wall Street
    January 24, 2011, Broadway World

    REBEL: A 20-Year-Old Unapologetically Playing as if It Were 300
    January 21, 2011, New York Times

    Emma Kirkby awarded Queen’s Medal
    January 21, 2011, The Press Association

    Philharmonia Baroque Launches New Label With Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
    January 19, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle

    Memorial concert for IU Jacobs School of Music Professor Emeritus Hans Tischler Jan. 22
    January 18, 2011, IU News Room

    Vespers Born of Determination and Joy
    December 30, 2010, New York Times

    Top 10 Concerts of 2010
    December 27, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    Discovering Vancouver's hidden music makers
    December 19, 2010, Vancouver Examiner

    Baltimore Consort wassails Renaissance-style at Strathmore
    December 18, 2010, The Washington Examiner

    Chatham Baroque serves up a Latin American Christmas
    December 16, 2010, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    ‘Messiah’ Season, in All of Its Hues
    December 15, 2010, New York Times

    How can you not succeed if you approach your art as if you have absolutely nothing to lose?
    December 15, 2010, Toronto Star

    Magnificat will perform Charpentier's Midnight Mass
    December 11, 2010, San Jose Mercury News

    As China tour commences, IU Jacobs School ensemble ¡Sacabuche! welcomes critical acclaim, blog followers
    December 9, 2010, IU News Room (Indiana Univ)

    2010: The Most Memorable Moments in Music
    December 8, 2010, The New Yorker

    Sergiu Luca, violinist and Da Camera founder, dies
    December 8, 2010, Houston Chronicle

    James Tyler dies at 70; founding director of USC's early music program
    December 6, 2010, Los Angeles Times

    H&H musical director keeps this ‘Messiah’ fresh
    December 4, 2010, Boston Globe

    IU International
    December 3, 2010, IU Newsroom (Indiana University)

    Creative reconstructions of ‘Dido’
    November 26, 2010, Boston Globe

    Loft and found: have you got a Vivaldi lurking in your attic?
    November 22, 2010, The Guardian UK

    European tour will fan the fame of Apollo's Fire
    November 14, 2010, Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Shocking news from Oxford: you can't play a flute with your bottom
    November 7, 2010, The Guardian UK

    Tribute to accidental pirate hero
    October 29, 2010, The Vancouver Sun

    Christopher Hogwood Tries Teaching Baroque Music in China
    October 27, 2010, International Herald-Tribune

    A Common Thread: Music Of Spain And Mexico
    October 27, 2010 , NPR

    The original three tenors
    October 21, 2010, The Guardian UK

    Keyboard virtuoso to perform Bach
    October 14, 2010, Victoria Times-Colonist

    Blue Heron Renaissance Choir Joins Boston College as Artists-in-Residence
    October 12, 2010, Boston College

    A pinch-hitting cellist knocks it out of the park
    October 12, 2010, Crosscut (Seattle)

    IU Pro Arte Singers group collaborates with Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
    October 12, 2010, IU News Room

    Imagining the First Performance of Don Giovanni
    October 8, 2010, Financial Times

    Russia Revisited: William Christie at the Mariinsky
    October 8, 2010, St. Petersburg (Russia) Times

    Tuned In: C'est Magnificat! Early music ensemble presents first English opera, John Blow's 'Venus and Adonis'
    October 8, 2010, Contra Costa (CA) Times

    Lost Vivaldi flute concerto found in Edinburgh archive
    October 7, 2010, BBC News

    William Byrd: back on top after 400 years
    October 6, 2010, Reuters

    The Joyful Long Life of Philharmonia Baroque
    October 4, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    Preparing a Dainty Dish to Set Before a King
    September 27, 2010, New York Times

    For Ann Arbor's Academy of Early Music, life and push for local interest begin at 30
    September 27, 2010, AnnArbor.com

    The Classical Improviser
    September 23, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    Sopranos to highlight Baroque concert
    September 16, 2010, Victoria Times Colonist

    Lyra opens new season with Rochester concert
    September 15, 2010, Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin

    Group devoted to Byzantine works reaches West with Sept. 11 concert in Seattle
    September 9, 2010, Seattle Times

    Go medieval on your ears: Early music heavyweights headed to Houston
    August 3, 2010, Culture Map (Houston)

    Decca, Hoping for a Chant-Style Juggernaut, Signs Cloistered Nuns For Record Deal
    July 25, 2010, CBC News

    Early Music Vancouver Festival goes for Baroque
    July 21, 2010, The Vancouver Sun

    Classical Music’s New Golden Age
    July 2010, The City Journal (New York, NY)

    Naxos Chief Talks Business About Classical Recordings
    July 17, 2010, Washington Post

    With harp and Old English, 'Beowulf' comes to Tanglewood
    July 15, 2010, Albany Times Union

    Figuring Out Bach's Intentions, In The Course Of Flouting Them
    July 15, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    Bach soloists are growing baroque
    July 12, 2010, San Francisco Examiner

    Aspen Music Fest: Baroque with Nicholas McGegan
    July 11, 2010, The Aspen Times

    Alex Ross: Classical Music Is Younger And Hipper Than Late-Night TV
    July 8, 2010, The Rest is Noise

    Musician ordered to fly cello first-class
    July 5, 2010, The New York Post

    Apollo's Fire turns vast Cain Park amphitheatre into intimate space
    July 4, 2010, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

    7 days of music, 400 years of tradition
    July 5, 2010, The Capital Times (Madison, WI)

    Oldies are really old
    June 27, 2010, Indianapolis Star

    Medieval Music: John Hillenbrand Fiddles Up Distant Past
    June 2010, Savannah Morning News

    Aston Magna explores Bach’s dance rhythms
    June 18, 2010, The Boston Globe

    Washington Early Music Festival
    June 2, 2010, The Washington Post

    Old music from the New World
    May 12, 2010, The Prague Post

    Old-time music
    May 11, 2010, The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, PA)

    Early Music Now to honor St. Francis of Assisi next season
    May 2, 2010, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

    Aston Magna excels on period instruments
    April 15, 2010, The Advocate (North Adams, MA)

    Upcoming Music City Baroque program highlights the parallels between the Baroque violin repertoire and American fiddle music
    April 15, 2010, Nashville Scene

    Not too late for Chicago's early-music groups to shine
    April 15, 2010, Chicago Tribune

    William Christie leads Baroque operas in New York
    April 19, 2010, The New Yorker

    Nic McGegan's Custom-Tailored Harpsichord
    April 8, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle

    Jacobs School of Music partners with Bloomington Early Music Festival to present a conference on Isaac
    April 8, 2010, IU News Room (Bloomington, IN)

    QandA with Piers Adams, founder member of the British nouveau classic music quartet
    April 8, 2010, California Chronicle

    Pop Star: Chatham Baroque's Andrew Fouts
    April 7, 2010, Pop City Media (Pittsburgh)

    Forsaking 'Authenticity'
    March 30, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    The Aulos Ensemble at David Jones Auditorium
    March 29, 2010, The Sayville News (Sayville, NY)

    Ensemble Lipzodes to perform CD-release concert at Lilly Library
    March 26, 2010, IU News Room (Bloomington, IN)

    Musica Pacifica is the rare early-music group that's not afraid of crossing over
    March 18, 2010, GoErie.com (Erie, PA)

    Apollo's Fire to tour Europe for first time in November
    March 13, 2010, The Plain Dealer

    Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns
    March 11, 2010, New York Times

    Cloistered nuns wrote music with a message
    March 7, 2010, Cincinnati.com

    Jordi Savall: Suite Inspiration and Gamba Man
    March 7, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen at The Met
    March 3, 2010, Broadway World

    Emmanuel Music announces new artistic leader
    March 2, 2010, Boston Globe

    Coda: The Performance I Can't Forget
    March 1, 2010, Opera News

    IU Jacobs School ensemble ¡Sacabuche! invited to the Berkeley Early Music Festival
    February 19, 2010, IU News Room (Indiana University)

    Musicians Drive Emmanuelle Haim From Paris Opera Podium
    February 18, 2010, Le Monde via Ionarts

    Lutenist Paul O'Dette deciphers Bach's music
    February 12, 2010, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

    Boston’s Liber Ensemble to replace canceled Trio Mediaeval
    February 11, 2010, Chicago Classical Review

    Group joins Denton Bach Society
    February 9, 2010, Denton Record-Chronicle

    Ensemble Lipzodes resurrects 500-year-old music from Guatemala
    February 8, 2010, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

    Thousands protest at break-up of V&A musical instrument collection
    February 1, 2010, Times Online (UK)

    Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales
    January 30, 2010, Washington Post

    Utopia bringing post-Revolutionary American music
    January 30, 2010, Deseret News

    Christophers Makes His Mark on H and H
    January 28, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    Madrigals and Motets
    January 27, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    Pegasus Early Music in Rochester
    January 27, 2010, Rochester City Newspaper

    High School Musical-Baroque Style
    January 11, 2010, Strings Magazine

    Ton Koopman in Boston
    January 7, 2010, Boston Herald

    Twelfth Night Celebrations in Columbus
    January 7, 2010, The Columbus Dispatch

    Louis XIV’s Bassoon
    December 30, 2009, Tacoma Weekly

    Boston Baroque to conduct itself in comedic ways
    December 30, 2009, Boston Herald

    Critic's Choice: CD-Michael Maniaci, Mozart Arias for Male Soprano
    December 30, 2009, San Francisco Sentinel


    Links to Critics' Best of 2009 Lists

    Artistic vision was absent at times in Levine's BSO
    December 27, 2009, The Boston Globe

    Return of symphony struck welcome note
    December 27, 2009, The Columbus Dispatch

    Finally, a year that gave people reason to believe
    December 26, 2009, The Gazette (Montreal)


    Jordi Savall Gives 'Around the World' the Album of the Year -- and Much More
    December 22, 2009, Spinner

    Artist Visa Update
    December 18, 2009, The Performing Arts Alliance

    Chatham Baroque video
    December 18, 2009, Pittsburgh Post Gazette

    Handel's Original Messiah Manuscript Now Online
    December 17, 2009, New York Times

    Julianne Baird
    December 11, 2009, Star-Ledger

    Rebuilding An Instrument By Leonardo's Design
    December 10, 2009, NPR

    Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt turns 80
    December 4, 2009, AFP

    Reviving the Recorder
    December 1, 2009, The Flat Hat

    In Harmony with Haydn
    November 26, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle

    William Hudson wins Noah Greenberg Award
    November 24, 2009, IU News Room 

    HC Robbins Landon Dies
    November 24, 2009, The Guardian (UK)

    The Sonata Project in Vancouver BC
    November 19, 2009, Georgia Straight

    Playing Early Music at Brandeis
    November 17, 2009, Justice Online

    Susan Graham and Nic McGegan do Dido
    November 8, 2009, Los Angeles Times

    The Newberry Consort, cast adrift, looks to friends to keep it afloat
    November 5, 2009, Chicago Tribune

    Anonymous 4: Some En-chanting Evening
    October 21, 2009, San Francisco Classical Voice