On this last weekend before Christmas, Sunday Baroque will feature baroque holiday music to make your last-minute cooking, cleaning and preparations a little more pleasant as you hum along. The offerings will include selections from the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List.
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Suzanne spoke with versatile musician, Ronn McFarlane, about the lute’s history, and his passion for the instrument and its varied repertory.
Quite a few of our most beloved and familiar Christmas carols have roots in the baroque era or even before. Many of them started as popular secular music such as dances, folk songs, or even drinking songs, with festive words added to go with the holiday theme. One of my favorites is Branle de l’Official
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Suzanne Bona created her annual Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List, and it’s available on the Sunday Baroque website and Facebook page. You can also audition some of this year’s offerings, including a lively collection of French baroque theatre music. It’s one of the highlights of Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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It’s important to recharge your batteries, especially during the holiday season. We can help you do that with cheerful holiday selections from ancient times, as well as selections from the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list, to give you ideas for the music lover on your list. It’s some of the seasonal music you’ll hear this weekend.
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This year’s Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List has a broad variety of recommendations, including a few surprises. There is something for just about every taste — familiar favorites, less well known music, period instruments, modern instruments, and more. And of course, all the performances are top notch.
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Gratitude is the theme of the weekend, and as you’re cleaning up after your Thanksgiving festivities, Sunday Baroque will provide a sumptuous banquet of music celebrating gratitude and feasting.
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Thanksgiving is this week and, like most people, I’ve been contemplating the many things for which I am thankful. Good health, a warm and safe home, and enough to eat are, of course, at the top of my list. In addition to these essentials, I’m grateful for my relationship with music.
Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of music and musicians, poets and singers. She is celebrated on November 22nd, and many composers wrote music in tribute to her. Sunday Baroque will feature some of those Saint Cecilia odes.
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You can audition some of the recommendations from our annual Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list now through the end of December.
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