April is National Garden Month. You don’t need a green thumb — you CAN stop and smell the MUSICAL flowers as you stroll through a magnificent harmonic garden cultivated by musicians with particularly fertile imaginations and creativity.
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On Friday, I attended a Passover Seder with good friends. Some around the table were Jewish, several were from Christian backgrounds, and a few were unaffiliated with any religion. Today I attended an Easter brunch at the home of another dear friend. Around this table, once again, were people from many different faith backgrounds and
This season is a time of spiritual reflection, hopeful renewal, and reconciliation. Sunday Baroque will celebrate Easter with music illustrating the broadly uplifting and optimistic spirit of this season.
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Shock waves reverberated virtually everywhere one looked yesterday, as news spread about the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It is stunning and surreal to see an iconic building that has stood for more than eight centuries being ravaged before our eyes. It’s a house of Christian worship, of course, and this tragedy struck
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For a long time after JS Bach’s death, his music wasn’t performed much. But a woman who’d studied with Bach’s son happened to own some of Bach’s manuscripts. And in 1829, her great-nephew organized a performance of the ST. MATTHEW PASSION, which reignited interest in the forgotten musician. Sunday Baroque will offer selections from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
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National Sibling Day is on April 10th, and Sunday Baroque will celebrate some musical siblings. such as three Belgian brothers who helped lead the revival of interest in baroque music in the middle of the 20th century, and trumpet playing brothers who have made numerous recordings together.
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The “big name” composers of the baroque era, including George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi, have a recognized body of work that has been thoroughly studied and documented. Thanks to ongoing scholarly research over the centuries since the baroque era ended in 1750, we continue to learn more about these musical giants and their contemporaries,
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