Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday in October. It is a Harvest Festival, an occasion for celebrating and expressing gratitude for an abundant harvest. There’s an abundant harvest of excellent Canadian musicians, too, and you’ll hear some of the fruits of their labors on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Connor Chee is a Navajo pianist and composer known for combining his classical piano training with his Native American heritage. Chee made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 after winning a gold medal in the World Piano Competition. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory
In honor of International Coffee Day, Sunday Baroque has music for everyone who takes their coffee seriously. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Coffee Cantata tells the story of a young woman who loves coffee so much, she refuses to give it up.
Pour yourself a cup and hear selections from Bach’s Coffee Cantata this Sunday.
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Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States takes place from September 15th through October 15th. It was initially a weeklong observance established by President Johnson, then expanded by President Reagan as a month-long celebration of the rich contributions of the Hispanic community. We’ll mark the occasion with music by baroque era composers connected to Spain and Mexico on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The days are getting shorter, the air is turning cooler, and the colors of the season are beginning to show. For centuries, composers have found inspiration in autumn… from the bustle of the harvest to the beauty of a changing landscape.
Welcome the new season with Sunday Baroque!
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Violinist Stanley Ritchie was a gifted instrumentalist, music scholar, author, and early music expert, and an esteemed teacher and mentor. As a professor of violin at Indiana University, he trained countless top performers who play in ensembles all over the world. We are celebrating the remarkable life and legacy of violinist Stanley Ritchie on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Some musicians not only devoted themselves to composing, they also made time to write books illustrating their ideas and philosophies. For example, one composer wrote an important book about playing the flute, and another wrote a composition textbook that has been used by generations of musicians, including Mozart and Beethoven. You’ll hear their musical ideas on Sunday Baroque this Labor Day weekend.
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The poet Robert Frost said, “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Reynard Burns awakened the creativity and talent of countless students in his 34 years as a public school orchestra director on Long Island. Mr. Burns also plays piano and bass, and is a prolific composer and arranger whose talents and interests span
The Berlin Philharmonic is one of the world’s great orchestras, famous for its performances of music from beyond the baroque era. But in the 1990s, some of its principal players wanted to explore earlier music, too.
They formed the Berlin Baroque Soloists. Hear them, along with one of the Philharmonic’s principal flutists, playing Bach’s Second Orchestral Suite this week on Sunday Baroque.
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There have been some terrific recent recordings, including concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach played by the Belgian early music group LA PETITE BANDE … and a new installment in a years-long series of recordings of music by Antonio Vivaldi contained in an extensive archive in Turin. We’ll audition these outstanding recent releases on Sunday Baroque this week.
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