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Baroque in Beacon

The Frankenstein-like theorbo is an integral part of the Baroque repertoire because they typically have 14 strings and offer ...
“Frets & Strings,” Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra’s 2007-08 chamber series opener this weekend, will spotlight one of the world’s leading lute and guitar virtuosos, John Schneiderman. Led by ...
NYS Baroque will present lute player Paul O’Dette in two concerts this weekend. O’Dette, a professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, has a worldwide performing and conducting career but ...
2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed The Dryden Ensemble returns with its new artistic director, Daniel Swenberg, in a ...
Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...
Manzanita Concerts welcomes Eric Dickerson (Baroque Lute) and Lynn Schubert (Baroque Flute), performing their program “Music of the High Baroque” on historical instruments. Eric Dickerson earned his ...
MIDDLETOWN — The Greater Middletown Concert Association has cancelled a performance by the Ensemble Chaconne, “The Glorious Ones — Treasures by the Late Baroque Masters.” The group is composed of ...