Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEWITCHING BAROQUE musicians get ready to cast spells. (photo credit: Hagar Girsai) The festival focuses on the unique and often ...

This Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is featuring some of the hardest working musicians of the 16th through 18th centuries: exceptionally prolific composers including German musician Michael ...

The word "baroque" comes from the Portuguese "barroco" meaning "misshapen pearl," and is defined as a style or period of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the 17th century to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 18—ROCHESTER — Lyra Baroque, the only exclusively Baroque orchestra in the Upper Midwest, is taking a cue from a Rochester ...

The name “Twelfth Night” may at first conjure up Shakespeare’s festive and lively comic play, not the baroque ensemble of the same name. But the musicians don’t mind — that’s the point. Violinist ...

The baroque era was a 150 year period in history – 1600 until 1750 – and it included musicians like George Frideric Handel, as well as other composers of their time such as Frenchwoman Elisabeth ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...

Enjoy an evening of Italian Baroque music featuring love songs and dance music from the early 1600s by Claudio Monteverdi, ...

Composer. Conductor. Abolitionist. Virtuoso violinist. Champion fencer. War hero. The life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — a celebrity in 18th century Paris, the son of a Senegalese ...

“Music should jump right off the stage! It is a conversation that engages emotion, ” says violin virtuoso, Monica Huggett. Huggett is coming to Boise to make Baroque music jump into the hearts of ...

In 1997, some freelance Italian musicians were hired to play in the pit for a Baroque opera. They liked it so much that they continued to perform together, and under the direction of harpsichordist ...